A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen.
What are these little white worms in my carpet.
If the worms are limited to your kitchen and are crawling up walls and along ceilings it s a good bet that they are indianmeal moth larvae.
On the floor of my bedroom.
I dont know what to do.
However we are confident that these creatures are not carpet beetle larvae.
When we hear about small black worms discovered in a carpet our first idea is that the creatures are carpet beetle larvae which are extremley common household pests.
Or how to get rid of them.
Okay i was cleaning out under my bed and i saw these little brown worms crawing in my carpet.
The other white worms in that size range that can be found in kitchens are fly maggots but those do not have legs.
Carpet beetle larvae look much different than the three specimens in the photograph.
No matter what type of larvae you are dealing with it is best to remove them as quickly as possible through meticulous cleaning.
Look for the carpet bug larvae.
This is especially true if there is a food source in the carpeting such as old rotten food or other organic matter.
I went away for the weekend when i came home i discovered little white worms on my carpet i ve been trying to figure out what they are.
What are these little white worms on my carpet.
When the eggs hatch small white worms the larvae infest the carpeting.
They don t seem to be in the kitchen or anywhere else.
I also see some shells from them i guess they shed their skin they look like mealworms just smaller.
The reader left dirty washing perhaps something like dirty plates or dirty rags on the kitchen floor over night and in the morning there were lots of little white worms on the kitchen floor directly underneath the washing we receive a lot of questions about little white worms and ironically these questions are rarely about.
What you might think is worms in your carpet is most likely the larvae of assorted insect species such as spider moth and fly larvae.
Don t ever skip looking for these as evidence of adults also indicates probable presence of larvae.
These are newly hatched carpet bugs that will be around 1 8 of an inch long and covered in coarse hairs almost like a caterpillar.