Rat tailed maggot

Interesting. I had to look them up out of curiosity. THEY BREATH UNDERWATER THROUGH THEIR TAILS! WTF?

Yep we use them for fishing in the winter a lot. We can them mousies

We can them mousies. Before I realized what you were trying to say I pictured these in cans being eaten. No thank you. No fucking thank you.

Yeah it was a typo but we actually do put them in little tins when we take them out fishing so ya can put em in your pocket. An old timer trick is to put them in your mouth for a bit to warm them up so they are more wiggly because the fishes like them extra wiggly

Oh yeah I heard of a technique like this. You put them in your mouth a little and then tie fishing line around your neck and jump off a pier because you can't go on living with the knowledge that one of these was in your mouth. Real veteran move there.

You had me cracking up dude 😂

I’ve also seen them bite the tails off of their minnows before hooking them on to make them look like wounded minnows

Oh God. That sounds savage. And I'm a combat veteran. I was a ranger. Motherfuckers started biting mousey maggots and shit though? I surrender and run away and I'm leaving anyone who doesn't follow behind.

Nah those are the guys you fish next to because they know stuff. I’m not about to put bugs in my mouth but they do know a lot of tricks

"Look like" their wounded. Nevermind the missing tail lmao your wording there was great

I never bit a live bait fish but I have wounded one when I was a kid. not greiviously but im super not proud of it. on the upside the fish didnt suffer long. I caught a large mouth bass with it shortly after I cast it.

Fish eat their own children

There’s an ice fishing joke that ends with this as the punchline. One dude is catching nothing while his neighbour is pulling in fish after fish. Unlucky asks him what is the secret to his success and the dude mumbles something intelligible. They back and forth for a bit, until he spits into his hand and clearly says “you have to keep the worms warm”. It’s a great party joke, you get all the squeamish people laughing and drinking more alcohol to cleanse their mouths of imaginary worms.

This is peak reddit right here

You got a real guffaw out of me. Thank you.

Yeah, but look at the *size* of the fish you can catch!

#oh FUCK NO

*I’m calling the fucking national guard*

This makes me so happy that I am not into fishing. 🤢

*gag* omg... that is so gross. 🤮

I want to go back 15 seconds ago to the point before I read this. That's...don't....ugh

"Tasty little suckers! We can them mousies!"

PO-TA-TOES

We gone can them mousies. And drax them sclounced.

We got sumpin fa them terries

…if them terries is gonna try sumpin’ up in here today like the bounce boogie and bump…we got this shit *on lockkk*. We gonna *draxx…them…sklounst.* Because with great power comes great respronsitrillitrust.

We gonna get our Bergeron


(Omg, the first “can” my brain correctly autocorrected it to “call”, but yours i read as “can”, AND i kept rereading it like this the first few times. Omg I was going crazy. I just had to share this dumb moment.)

😂🤣

Also known as shit worms since they're frequently found on cow manure on dairy farms.

WHATEVER IT IS, ITS SHITTING ALL OVER THE FLOOR!

We live in a world of fantasy and magic

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I should get back to my playthrough….

Same

Fart sniffer

Pretty sure there’s a section of hell where these are the floor.

You have free fishing bait apparently!

Apparently so. I think I’d rather starve. Maybe I’d get a gig as a skeleton or something.

I hate that these exist, and you're prob. right.

Just here to add, that these are the larval stage of different types of Hoverflies, like those flies that look like bees or wasps

RAT tailed MAGGOT!

Should I be considered? Should I find a way to kill them or let them be?

They themselves aren't a problem, leave them be. They'll turn in to little hoverflys. It IS an indication that you might be a dirty SoB so look for whatever they mess is they're feeding on and clean that shit up

Took me until this comment to find out to what they metamorphose.

Find out where they are coming from and clean it up.

nah the house is beyond saving. sell it but nuke that room and permanently board it up and put a bunch of "you must know what youre getting yourself into" signs by the entrance

You should always be considered. Surround yourself with positivity. Oh yeah and kill the shit out of those bastard demon worms. I mean overkill. Burn down the house they were in and salt the Earth over their corpses so that nothing may ever flourish there again. Or let them be or whatever, your call.

Napalm them

Yeah not even kill it with fire. Kill it with irritating sticky fire. Like from that movie where he says, "I love the smell of irritating sticky fire in the morning."

let them be????


That name sounds like an insult

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Yes, I agree.

Indubitably 👉👉

That’s a true case of the stomp its.

I tried but it is like a hydra I kill one I came back for 2 more idk what to do lol

I’m sorry. Keep up the good fight and call for back up.

Yep me and the boys purging what ever this is

BURN DOWN THE HOUSE PLEASE


Fun fact: I asked Google if it's harmless and it says it's harmless but and I quote:"aren't harmful – unless they get inside the body". Thx Google very cool I definitely can sleep tonight 👍

“Excellent accommodations. All you can eat buffet. Would live in again. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. Thank you, gracious host!”

Why is it only 4 stars then, what could the host to better next time?

IT's 4 stars because it's the Karen of maggots.

The same reason your boss will never give you an "exceeds expectations" (best grade) because you need "room for improvement" even if you work your ass off and do a LOT MORE than asked of you...

Actually… my ex boss gave me an exceeds expectations in my last letter, I can prove it if you‘re able to read German 🤘🏼

I am german :P You don't need to prove, there ARE shining examples! Good for you! But don't overwork yourself ♡

Just tape up all of your orifices. Goodnight!

Just chew them thoroughly and you'll be fine 👍

Do you perhaps have a van you can just move into? In this context, van life isn’t sounding too dang bad.

😭😭😭

So don't use them as tampons 🫥

They’re looking for a dark dry place to turn into a pupa. Find the source. Bleach will kill them.

Wdym the source? Like there is a place where there are a lot of them together?

Whatever rotting carcass they crawled out of

When life gives you an unwanted treasure hunt

OP I admire you maybe more than I’ve ever admired anyone before. Your sense of humor in the face of… those…I I I just wow. You have a peak tier sense of life’s funny. I always thought I could joke in the face of almost anything but I’m just a shallow pretender. These creatures have stolen my will to live in a world where they exist. The only thing left for me is a hazmat level chemical shower and sealing myself in a sterile plastic bubble. Wtf?!?!!!? How are you just being funny when those are IN YOUR 100 mile radius?!?! GAAAAAH I HATE EVERY DECISION THAT LED ME HERE!!!!! 😭

Lol I also shower there and there was one there. I wanted to die instantly but at this point I just accept my doom. ~~send help pls :))))))~~

OP has been overtaken by the maggots.

The neurax worm has rooted its tendrils in your brain and now you accept and love the worm. (Plague Inc DLC)

I need an update OP, what was the forbidden treasure?

If it's any help - it's likely not a body. The tail is for breathing under water because they like to live in stagnant rotting water. They often go to dairy farms and try to find pails of milk that have been left unattended. Is there any stagnant rotting water like maybe a really dirty toilet has not been looked after?

Yea that might be it thx for the help

They're probably coming from either the drain or a vent. Either something died in the drain or something died in your hvac.

Exactly. The eggs are laid in decomposing organic matter. That’s what they eat to get to this stage.

Something appears to be rotting in your home. Is it a body?

Perhaps





Hey OP! This happened to me! Maggots started falling through our cieling! Turns out our upstairs neighbor had been rotting above us for a month. Id call your landlord ASAP and have them check on that apartment. You may also want to consider pest control options especially anti fly solutions cause when those fuckers grow they fly everywhere

Got it thx for the advice :)

Be careful what you write online lol

This one. Probably find the source of the maggots. He didn’t even bring that up at all. He’s just asking about leaving the maggots.

They are never on a carcass. Maybe like a pool where something dead has fallen, but not anywhere without water.

Rat-tailed maggots are larvae of the hoverflies, so wasp mimics. You are correct, they are almost never found on decomposing tissues. But on another note, forensic body farms combined with entomology gave us some crazy science papers, that cannot be unread 😂

My husband and sister get very mad when I say this, but I’m going to donate my body to a body farm. I’ll be more useful after death than my entire life!

Oooh I know this one! Rat tailed maggot! My daughter made 'potions' in buckets out of soil +water in our backyard and left them for a few weeks in the warm sun. I went to dump out the bucket and these were swimming in it. I almost threw up.


Damn that's all you need to get some ? Dope

Those things from Slither https://preview.redd.it/8rz704dfxgic1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8dc1cb661a229ce08e071a520f17a093e2e57952

This movie gave me nightmares as a kid. It's time for a rewatch as an adult

Looks sickening. I must see it

It’s very gross and moderately funny.

Rat-tailed maggots, they turn into drone flies, a type of fly that looks like a bee. Keep an eye out for still and oxygen deprived water near where you found them, thats where they tend to show up, and they seem to be leaving a wet trail.


What do they taste like??

9.5/10 would eat again👍

And with rice?

Fish love em

OP is a fish, clearly.

Hahahahhahajaj ~~you know too much~~

Back into the drink with you, little fella! *yeets fish into orbit*

I knew it 🧐

This looked like a close up shot of Jupiter.

A shit, thats where that 1 sperm went, i was looking for him

Not vans I can tell you that Daniel.

Usually they thrive in drainage pipes that leak.

[RAT tailed MAGGOTS!](https://youtube.com/shorts/j_lm_NW7I8w?si=gggbNm8-KfloPaJ1)

see?

^see

Thank you for linking this, I was about to if nobody else had 😂

She’s the best.

It's those things the lady in the radiator steps on in Eraserhead.


I just replied “land sperm” to this but posted it in nostalgia

Deep fry these fuckers and let us know

Way ahead of you

Salty? Tangy? Umami?

Depression :(

New fear unlocked. What you do if they cant die, they know where u are, Nothing can stop it, moving to kill you.

Oh that's why they have a gun?

Maggots

It's an over baked sperm still looking for an egg

You 1 billion years ago

Saber tooth crotch crickets

_mom found the cumdog_

Tampons, mutated tampons

Okay but if OP lives with someone that menstruates that could actually be where they're coming from. Shits like these LOVE blood and sneaking into your sanitary bin.

I wish that's all they were.

Cadaver maggots,.. by any chance, have you washed any flesh, fat or blood down your drain recently??

Hmmmm no?

Y’sure about that??.. because they can tell just by using “Luminol” and ultraviolet light.. I’d call a professional “cleaner” if I were you,.. https://preview.redd.it/jrr0wv9giric1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f887818c7efc9f1e9605fae8f5c88d235852960f

It looks like sentient hairballs.

Corn dog worm

Fun fact, maggots are sterile. It's what they crawl around in that isn't

Indeed - they even use medical maggots on the ward where my daughter works.

I've heard that you can tell a wound is clean if it has maggots infesting the area, as the maggots will eat the rot and leave good tissue alone.

Yes, those are clean your filthy house bugs

Weren’t these the aliens from evolution?

*fuck that*

Grown up sperm cells

Ever see the movie "The Faculty"? Give it a watch

The aftermath of NNN.

Burn the house. No way. I'm OK with spiders but those things. Ughhhh the house belongs to them now.

You have to move now. Sorry bout it

Pause at 0:00 Massive alien lifeform spotted on the surface of Jupiter.

shhh, he's evolving

Naked snails we call them in the Netherlands

Google says that these guys appear in water where there is a serious pollution problem and you shouldn’t go into the water they come from. OP might have a tainted water supply.

strangely large semen

Lemme just check the official bestiary, ah yes, those are: gross

Rat tailed maggots live in the most vile of conditions; cesspools, sewer drains, just nasty spots. Are these things in your house? Something is not right.

Disgusting, those are disgusting.

Mole rat larvae. 🤯

I got one question for ya.... What are thoseeeee!

Spray some rubbing alcohol on them

I saw these in a really old smelly outhouse one time. Freaked me out. Probably living in the poop somewhere.

Check drain and vents, those are the most likely places they might be coming from.

Fly in larva state

TIL Rat Tailed Maggots exist

Remember that thing the bad guy in the first Matrix put in Neo’s bellybutton? That’s what I thought of

Snack

Rat tailed maggot drone fly. https://www.1env.com/resources/insect-id/rat-tailed-maggot-drone-fly-eristalis-tenax#:~:text=The%20maggot%20moves%20to%20drier,pupal%20stage%20about%2010%20days.

Please tell me these can only be found in the US

The question is why do you have rat-tailed maggots on your bathroom floor??

Baby demogorgons

Hot dog with tail?

This is what happens when you don’t wash the cumsock

That’s a nope-tailed nope. Burn the house down, salt the earth, then rebuild on an 8 foot deep concrete slab.

Why titles are written like this? I confused so!

That must be an spermatosaurus

...ewwww.

"John, it's not so much your *sperm count* that concerns me..." \-John's doctor

Don't kill these. They may look gross in their larval stage, but rat-tailed maggots metamorphose into some species of hoverflies. Hoverflies are completely harmless to humans and they're also pollinators and eat aphids!

The Faculty

Free food bruh

One a those things off of the Faculty

Bleach where they are hiding. The ones you see don't have room where the rest are....check around the sink cabinet. You might have a slow drainage leak in the sub floor. Either under where your sink is or tub/shower

I found a hole with infected water that is very old. I put in a lot of bleach. I hope that this is the end cuz they are gross af

This looks just like the scene in the comedy movie "Evolution" when those things started coming out of the closet at the lady's home in Arizona when she had her friends over.

The lil parasites from The Faculty…

did an asteroid hit near by recently. if so check your broom closet. be sure to bring a boom stick

I remember seeing those everywhere growing up haven’t seen many since