These things appeared in friends flat. What are they?
Grain moth larva. Good luck. The damn things are a pain to get rid of once you have them. You’ll want to pitch any food that isn’t 100% air tight sealed (bags or boxes of cereal, rice, flour, sugar, noodles, etc.) and then clean out any cabinets really well to make sure you get rid of as many eggs as possible. After that make sure you don’t leave any food unsealed for the next few months because odds are they will keep popping back up ocasionally for a bit and if they can get into anything when they do then the infestation starts all over. As far as infestations go they aren’t the worst to deal with but they are anoying.
Which is the worst to deal with, in your opinion?
Bed bugs. Easily.
Now that I think of it, duh!
I just dealt with them a couple of months ago, absolute fucking nightmare. What solved it in the end was parasitic wasps - you can order them online. I received 3 letters in the mail a couple of weeks apart, each containing a small paper card with parasitic wasp eggs, which you put close to the source of larvae. The wasps lay their eggs inside the larvae eggs, but you’ll need to use all three letters to get all larvae throughout their cycle.
Sounds weird as fuck, but immediately solved the problem.
Gonna be honest chief, I would sooner burn my house down than live with wasps.
But thinking about it, I’m willing to bet that house centipedes would clear them up too. Those voracious little buggers eat everything.
Luckily they are tiny tiny wasps, like specks of dust. Anything bigger and I would have run!
Oh, cool! When you said parasitic wasp my brain immediately pictured a tarantula hawk wasp.
The parasitic ones (well, parasitoid since they live free as adults) are very different, sometimes literally microscopic, and never harmful to humans AFAIK.
Gruesomely fascinating and widely studied, though. Relevant recent XKCD.
I hear they are very nutricious 🤔… Everything is so expensive now. So… Endless food source? Shittylpt?
Well, you’re actually guaranteed to get less food out than in. Insect farming is only a LPT if you have something we can’t eat to feed them, or are a bodybuilder who needs more protein than you can feasibly get from plants.
Nono, you got a point.
That’s just farming, only on a reeeeeeaaaaly small scale.
That’s a mealworm, and they make great fish bait, or lizard food.
I’m 100% sure that’s not it - mealworms have hard segments, that looks fleshy.