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Little curly worms all over, help!

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Hi Folks: Our basement has been infested with little "worms" that are about an inch long, that curl up when they die. About a thousand of them have chosen our basement as their final resting place. While standing outside the other night, I noticed them crawling around on the concrete outside. Over the next couple of days, I spent about an hour getting them up off the entire basement floor with a shop vac. I cannot post a pic, but I will describe them the best I can. They are brown, sectional, with a hard shell. We live in N.GA, and it has been very hot and humid. Very rarely do we see any alive in the basement, but the floor is just covered with the curled up creatures.
Any ideas on how to prevent these little critters from getting in our basement?
Thanks in advance, GOR.
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I live in a basement that is infested with millipedes. The basement floods during every hard rain, so there's really no way to keep it dry and discourage the worms. They were particularly bad two summers ago (literally covered the floor); now they're just annoying-bad. Have to clean them out of my shower every morning. They stink. Haven't been able to kill them with poison--probably because I don't want to live surrounded by as much poison as it would take to kill them all. They're everywhere. Of course, the conditions outside the house are perfect for them as well. The owners of the house live upstairs, hate yardwork, and are accustomed to living in third-world conditions: nothing fazes them. So--good luck with your millipedes and be glad you don't live in the basement. :) And thanks for letting me gripe.
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