"Bart Bailey" wrote in message
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 09:22:09 +0100, "Druss" wrote:

These things are up to 1.5 inches long, about 5mm
in diameter, excuse units, and seem to have a very long thin tail coming
out
of one end.

Rat-tailed maggots? They are the larva of a kind of hoverfly.