Parasites in my basement…

[MiniFoxx]

While I was video taping my basement flooding for the judge, my children opened the door that leads up the stairs into the garage for me. There on the bottom step was a WORM!!! Not an earthworm or anything like that. This looks like a heartworm (larger than a thread, smaller than spaghetti, about 11.5 to 12 inches long) that would be found in a dog. Now my dogs were nowhere near my garage and they have been gone for a bit now.

I don’t know the life cycle of these things nor do I care to. I would just like to know what it was doing in my basement, how many more could there be, how did it get there, and then how would I get rid of them.

I certainly don’t need anyone in my family becoming a host for one of these nasty sickening creatures.

I have it in a jar of water right now and it has been almost two hours. Think I may take it up to the vet tomorrow and see what they have to say. But I had to ask all of you here at BVC first. Let me know what you think.
I might add that this basement is flooded whenever it rains from the garage leaking. It has gotten that bad now. The water comes up over the tops of my toes.

MiniFoxx
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[tomh]

A long thin and uninvited worm in a water flooded basement more than toe deep. What could possibly happen next! The only thing I found on the internet was Horsehair worms that are parasitic only to insects. Absent a better description, thats my current guess.

Hey, whats with the judge. things must be getting serious to convince a judge to trudge around the basement! How do you get a judge to go wading in a basement anyway? Sounds like a convincing uninhabitalble dwelling case to me. This does not sound like something that a dehumidifier alone will solve. LOL, Good Luck AJ truckers wife a.k.a. minifoxx. Post back with a better description of your worm, but there are thousands of species out here. Who knows, maybe we will find a Helminthologist to answer your question. (search helminthology)

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2112.html
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/horsehair_worms.htm

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