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Please help im terrified !
JinXter
Hello everyone

Im new to this forum because of a major shock discovery this morning.
In my working room i have a sink, but it has been broken for a couple of weeks.
The water isn't running out anymore.
This morning when i looked at the sink, i saw these horrifiing black worms in there :-~. I was absolutely getting sick about this. Not only because i saw the water, but because i still drink water from the sink pipes. I made i picture of these things. Can anyone please help and tell me what these might be??? And if i should worry that they could be in my water from the sink pipes?

I really keep everything clean but this sink is giving me alot of worries

Please help

Thank you all

Picture: http://www.2shared.com/file/3906249/6508260/1_online.html
 
Philippe moniotte
Don't panic! They are probably the larvae of some innocuous mosquito-like diptera or something like it. The sort of things you get in any water containers left standing for a few days. Flush them out, and you're done.
Cheers
Philippe
PS on a list like this, you won't find many people who are repulsed by "worms", we tend to observe them closely and speculate happily about them Wink
 
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JinXter
Hi Thank you so much for the information.
Im not really repulsed, but i am repulsed by the fact that im drinking from that water pipe! So i got a bit nervous about that!

But the way you descirbe lets me believe i shouldn't worry, because its only there because of the stagering water.

but just out off curiosity can these be identified?
 
cthirion
Probably Drain fly, without danger, Diptera Psychodidae
http://www.diptera.info/photogallery.php?photo_id=1309
cthirion
 
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