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Eldur

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Found these things under a cloths that you use to clean the floors. Some of them were damp.

The pointy end is their head I think, they move that forward first when they go around and they have some kind of tounge that they put out of their mouth on a regular basis.

What could have layed their eggs in there? I first thought a housefly, but then it doesn´t look like the housefly larvae/maggot on google.

Do you know what this is?

The only insect that is around the dirty cloths is a housefly, they seem to like staying on them, eating the dirt or something.

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This peace of apple is less than 10mm wide

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These may be dead, have not moved

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The small one es I think eating from the apple

 
Thank you for your answer! :D

What do you think they would eat?

May be I can keep them and feed the mantis them as flies? :p

 
Thank you for your answer! :D What do you think they would eat?
Just keep feeding them apple if that's what they're into.

May be I can keep them and feed the mantis them as flies? :p
I loved to know what they turn into. I think they will turn into some type of fly. They sort of look like Dermestidae larvae (skin beetle) but they lack the 3 pairs of thoracic legs. My money's on fly ;)

 
I do not recognize the species (you are in Iceland so why should I lol), but if I were to put money on anything, I would put it on fly maggots. Fly maggots take a variety of forms, they are not always soft and white. ;) The main reason I think they are maggots is because one of them pupated and I dont see any visible legs. If they were beetle larvae, there would be 6 legs near the front.

 
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