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Is this a Maggot and, if yes, what kind?
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These things appeared in friends flat. What are they?
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Luckily they are tiny tiny wasps, like specks of dust. Anything bigger and I would have run!
Oh, cool! When you said parasitic wasp my brain immediately pictured a tarantula hawk wasp.
Anything fruitfly and above would have meant I'll just move, but yours sounds so much more horrifying. Oh god.
The parasitic (well, parasitoid since they live free as adults) ones are very different, sometimes literally microscopic, and never harmful to humans AFAIK.
Gruesomely fascinating and widely studied, though. Relevant recent XKCD.