While preparing to go out, my daughter found a cluster of worms crawling in a circle. This was very unusual, so I filmed it and took a few pictures. I uploaded a picture of a closeup of the worms, and a video named wormsinacircle.asf. as well, but not using this form. We have no idea what type of worms these are.
Closeup of worms crawling in a circle in our driveway in Vestal
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Unknoiwn worms crawling in a circle
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says ... on Wednesday, Apr 10 at 2:54 PM
joester is correct. There are different varities of knat larvae that do this around the world. Might have something to do with the rain we had. The circle theory is that the lead larvae meets up with the back of the line. Not the brighest bugs.
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says ... on Monday, Sep 10 at 2:51 PM
we found similar worms in our driveway - traveling in a straight line,but almost in a braided formation. I 1st thought someone ran over a small snake, but then realized it was moving.
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says ... on Sunday, Sep 18 at 9:00 PM
I also just found a circle of these worms on my front walk. Your photo was much better than mine... all I can say is YUCK ! !
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says ... on Sunday, Jul 17 at 6:09 PM
I also had a encounter with one of these circle of worms today.Freak me out .I am 47 and I have never seen this before and my husband is 53 and very well educated in science and has no idea either.We also have 2 dogs and 1 cat and are concerned.
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says ... on Tuesday, Jun 28 at 9:44 PM
I had them on my walkway... So do we know what they are? where they come from? Im in NJ
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says ... on Saturday, Jun 12 at 9:58 PM
ugh. gag.
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says ... on Saturday, Jun 12 at 12:34 PM
There," RING-WORM's" ... lol
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says ... on Monday, Jun 7 at 10:24 AM
Found same in my back yard today-been searching the web for half hour leading to this! We thought could have been parasite from our dog-but i felt is was a definite Larva of some kind> as long as it didn't come out of my dog! CRAZY-NASTY!
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says ... on Wednesday, Sep 23 at 6:38 PM
My son just found a group of these worms circling on my concrete patio. Same exact worm going around and around. If they do not have a name I would like to suggest "NASCAR worms" Very strange to see!
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says ... on Saturday, Jul 18 at 2:08 PM
It took a while and a lot of looking, but these are Fungus Gnat larvae as far as I can tell. The pictures I found online are a close to a match as I think anyone will ever get. I used other photos I had taken to try identifying them.
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says ... on Thursday, Jun 25 at 12:25 AM
I wish someone would tell us what they are. I'm curious now.
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says ... on Monday, Jun 15 at 9:57 AM
I found some of these worms on my sidewalk this morning! Did you every find out what they were?
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