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Yuk! Insect problem

gallygirl
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Ooooohhh have icky insect problem! In my bathroom are (thankfully just the odd 1 or 2 at a time) insect cocoons. They are the size and colour (dark blue!) of a tuft of my carpet which is what I thought they were at first, although thought it odd as they are attached to the wall or ceiling!
Inside is a little grubby thing:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: . Am assuming they have eaten the carpet to make cocoon?

Any ideas - have never seen then before, and have only started appearing in last month or 2, coincidentally a few months after installing a power shower which is too strong for cubicle so walls are damp and crumbling next to cubicle (is not as bad as it sounds!). Am having new cubicle & tiled floor fitted - is it likely to stop or will they multiply and eat me during the night:confused:

Not carpet beetles - twice the length of them.
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  • pboae
    pboae Posts: 2,719 Forumite
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    Oops wrong button :o

    Clothes moths make cocoons the same colour as the material the larvae ate, but I don't know what they look like!
    When I had my loft converted back into a loft, the neighbours came around and scoffed, and called me retro.
  • Twinny99
    Twinny99 Posts: 1,454 Forumite
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    ali007 wrote:
    Inside is a little grubby thing:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: . Am assuming they have eaten the carpet to make cocoon?

    will they multiply and eat me during the night:confused:

    :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

    new carpet?? bare floorboards??
  • RoCas
    RoCas Posts: 3,929 Forumite
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    If you can take a picture, Ali, and post it here? Maybe we could google it for you.
  • Gryfon
    Gryfon Posts: 1,304 Forumite
    My first thought would be carpet beetles though I can't find any pictures of their cocoons...just the bugs and larvae.

    So if you get rid of the carpet you should get rid of the beetles!

    http://www.broxtowe.gov.uk/pestcontrol-carpetbeetle.htm
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  • gallygirl
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    Finally caught one in action climbing the bathroom wall :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: .

    It looks like it has a face!!!!!!

    Can someone please tell me how to insert a piccie from my PC??????

    Yuk gross!!!!
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  • squeaky
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    There's a great step by step guide on this, written by sra, here:-

    Pictures

    HTH :)
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  • gallygirl
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    Squeaky, thanks for that, another IT problem solved!

    Well, here it is. It's not a wind-up, it really does look as if it has a face :eek: :eek:

    It's about 1cm long (longer when head sticks out :eek: :eek: ). (At least it was that long, is now in toilet bowl heaven)

    Any ideas folks?

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