i know this sounds REALLY stupid but please take a minute to just read it..... i thought they were fly maggots but they look more like beetle larvae .... i REAAALLLy need to know if they can harm my guinea pig OR ME and my family and my cat: (YOU DONT KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR EFFORT MEANS TO ME THANKYOUU
Uhm that is terrible! Take his cage and clean it out outside, with vinegar, and water. No bugs or larvae just show up in cages if they are cleaned regularly! YOU need to put effort into cleaning the cage at LEAST once a week, but you most likely don't have a large enough cage so you may have to do it up to THREE times a week, or even once a day.
The best cages are C & C cages, made of cubes and coroplast. This is a great site for making them,
http://www.guineapigcages.com/. You can use extra cubes to make a pen to take them out to eat grass in, only in the warm months though, and in the evening, around sunset.
Also you should not just keep one guinea pig, they become depressed and die sooner than average. You're not treating him right it sounds like so Id just give him to someone who will care for him, rather than get another animal to neglect.
Fly maggots are a much more likely suspect than beetle larvae but in either case it means that you need to pay more attention to cage maintenance. The combination of moisture and an organic food source like feces and dropped feed and/or hay allows the insect larvae to thrive. Remove these 2 factors and you remove the problem. Normal fly and beetle larvae won't harm your pig but bot flies can lay eggs in any sort of wound on your pig which will result is serious case of " fly strike. "
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If your pig is neat and uses a corner as a toilet you may get away with merely scooping out the area and refreshing the bedding several times between weekly cage changing. If you can't just corner scoop, you will simply have to change cages more frequently. Cages that are wet and dirty enough to allow insect larvae to grow are too wet and dirty for a pig to remain healthy in.
The larvae won't hurt you or your family but the conditions which allow them can harm your pig.
I think your ok but you should definitly look at pictures of both to be sure. I put links in the sources box. How did they get there in the first place??? I think that you should possible call an exterminator. Why would they be in the guinea pigs cage though ????? If you clean the cage at least once a week then they shouldn ' t be there!!! I think you should throw out the cage you have and maybe the bugs will go with it. I also think that instead of buying a new cage, you should make a C + C cage. You can make them custom however would work best for you and if you get bored, you can change how it looks. If you go get a new cage, I wouldn't put it where the old one was. Any way, hope i helped.
as long as the pig doesn't have any open wounds he should be ok from the beetles.
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but the fact that we are even discussing beetles or larvea growing in his environment leads me to think that you could be leaving your pig in a place that poses greater risks to him then bugs.if you are changing his bedding so infrequently as to allow bugs to breed, the ammonia build up from his waste in his bedding is probably more of a health risk to him. this can lead to sores on his body and very easily a fatal respiratory infection
edit; to be fair i shouldn't assume that, depending on bedding choice it could come from there, either way a thorough cleaning is needed
If you do not clean the cage they will simply turn into fly's of bugs simple as that . It means it can harm your guinea pig simply because the cage is to dirty.
do they fly it seams as u are talkin about .. fruit flies ... go to this webpage:
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Fruit- ...
I don't really know, but you should get rid of them anyways! I wouldn't take any chances.
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Sorry. I can't help you any more than this ...: (
