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Post by alarmedlarvaefinder on Oct 6, 2018 10:11:49 GMT
Good Morning, I was rather hoping that somebody here could help my Mother and I identify what seems to be a form of larvae that we discovered in our bathtub this morning. We live in Wiltshire, South UK. ibb.co/cVSdBzibb.co/mLXBWzIt is fairly mobile. It’s the second of the same kind that we have found in the bathtub and looks to have come from the fan system that sucks air out of the bathroom through the roof. Having searched elsewhere on the internet I have been unable to find anything like it. It almost looks like a Black Soldier Fly larvae, but these are not native to the UK I’d understand correctly.
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Post by isidro on Oct 7, 2018 8:19:52 GMT
This is the larva of an Hermetia illucens. (Maybe this is what you call "black soldier fly"). They live on organic matter on descomposition. They're native to South America, but has been introduced intentionally all over the world since many years ago for human use in residual descomposition. I would like a lot if you change your mind over time, and don't think in the finding of a Wildlife form as something "alarming". The only real alarming thing is the lack of wildlife because our destruction of the planet.
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Post by alarmedlarvaefinder on Oct 7, 2018 9:50:34 GMT
Oh no, you have it all wrong. It was the larva that was alarmed, not I. I found an alarmed larva.
But a very good point, well made.
Thank you very much for your assistance.
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Post by isidro on Oct 7, 2018 14:21:23 GMT
Oh! I didn't got this funny point, hehe :-)
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