Unknown(to me)insect and larva(worm) . . .

Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada

There are two things I keep finding about my house here in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.
They are pictured in the attached image.

The insect is about the size of a mosquito . . . 1/8 inch or so. They have wings and fly, are attracted to light and seem totally harmless, meaning they do not bite and appear to cause no harm that I can tell.
I always find a few about the night light first thing in the morning. Not visible in the photo are two very fine antennae that they wave about quite rapidly. They always perch with their back end lower than their head, rather unlike a mosquito which sits more or less horizontally on a flat surface.

The larva or worm-like creature seems to be just about everywhere and anywhere, usually singly but sometimes I find clusters of them. On one occasion, likely a hundred or so . . . maybe more. While I do occasionally see live worm-like critters, they are usually dead and dessicated by the time I find them as are the larva-like critters in the picture.

I have no idea if the two creatures are related . . . the flying insects and the worm-like critters.

Grateful for any suggestions . . . I know very little about insects. There is no reason to think these things are anything other than dirt-common. I have lived with them, amicably enough, for many years but never was able to figure out what they are.

They don't get in my food. They don't bite. They seem totally benign. I have no idea what they eat.

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Sinks Grove, WV

The flying insect is a tiny moth, possibly in the family Gracillariidae - see http://tinyurl.com/ydd6le7 for an example. There are several families of very small moths collectively referred to as microlepidoptera; many can be identified only by specialists in those groups.
The worm-like creature is a millipede; a harmless scavenger on decomposing organic matter.

Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada

Thank-you suunto, your info seems right on the money.

I took a better picture of the moth . . . attached. It seems all but identical to your link.

It's a moth! Who'd a thunk it?

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