Insect and Spider Identification: Tiny yellow worms, 0 by mmch

mmch wrote:
well the camera that my mate lent me was rubbish... even with the macro it couldnt focus on them. Ive uploaded the pics anyway, the first is the mould that they were living in (the yellow bits are the worms) and the second is just of 2-3 worms on my tool box clumped together (too small to attempt to separate. I know the images are crap, but you can blame my mate for buying a cheep camera :P

They have been outside in the rubble skip all weekend in the blazing sun and i cant find any... i guess they are all dead now. Which is a shame, i guess ill never know what they were.

Everyone keeps saying termites? Ive watched enough nature documentarys to know these were not termites or termite grubs. no legs or visible mouth parts and if they were grubs... where are the termites that look after them?

What i really dont understand is how they managed to get there? They were between 2 sheets (12mm Ply and 22mm chipboard) that was screwed together.... and they had managed to get into the centre of the 8x4 sheet, i dont even think i could measeure a gap between the sheets with a micrometer

This message was edited May 28, 2012 3:06 AM