What Are The Small White Worms In My Car Carpet

A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen.

What are the small white worms in my car carpet.

When the eggs hatch small white worms the larvae infest the carpeting. Carpet beetles like to live out of sight and feed on the natural fibers in fabrics even living off carpet fibers that are 90 percent synthetic. This is especially true if there is a food source in the carpeting such as old rotten food or other organic matter. There will also be very tiny black dots typically in groups also but not attached to one another like the larvae.

I find small clusters of red and flesh colored eggs or larvae. Diatomaceous earth is the skeletal remains of diatoms an ancient form of algae. The skin irritation that carpet beetle larvae hair can cause for certain people looks a lot like bed bug bites if so then it seems pretty certain that the carpet beetle larvae in the car came from the person whose house is infested. Small worm larva carpet beetle bugguide net.

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. I dont know what to do. Heat definitely seems to increase the activity.

Insect and spider identification help white worms found under carpet beetles. 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. Or how to get rid of them. Sometimes bugs such as flies carpet bugs and moths lay eggs in carpeting.

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. There are different forms of eggs larvae all over my house car clothes and work. Sprinkle diatomaceous earth over carpeting to kill larvae. Perhaps items from the infested house were transported with the car and a few larvae managed to linger behind.

They tend to live inside fabric furniture or deep inside carpets so look for damage to area rugs around the edges and to carpets along base boards. I also see some shells from them i guess they shed their skin they look like mealworms just smaller.