Small White Worms In Carpet

All of these articles are about carpet beetle larvae and they are only a sample of the many articles we have written about them.

Small white worms in carpet.

Vacuuming carpeting and washing your clothes and other fabrics frequently at least once every 2 or so weeks is the best way to prevent a carpet beetle infestation. Food and sweat stains on fabrics can attract carpet beetles. Although the stuff is nontoxic to humans and other mammals it is deadly to insects and worms as the earth s sharp edges cut into insects and their larvae and kill them. Home pests can cause a lot of damage to furniture clothes and other fabrics while creating health hazards for people and pets living in the residence.

A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen. Sometimes bugs such as flies carpet bugs and moths lay eggs in carpeting. Clean carpet beetle prone areas frequently. 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.

When the eggs hatch small white worms the larvae infest the carpeting. This is especially true if there is a food source in the carpeting such as old rotten food or other organic matter. Although obviously larvae people routinely refer to them as worms which is why we have articles about worms under furniture worms in the pantry worms in the carpet and worms on the counter. Two major home invaders are the carpet bug better known as the carpet beetle and the maggot which is actually a house fly larvae.