Small White Worms In Carpet

Two major home invaders are the carpet bug better known as the carpet beetle and the maggot which is actually a house fly larvae.

Small white worms in carpet.

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. 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. This is especially true if there is a food source in the carpeting such as old rotten food or other organic matter. Sprinkle diatomaceous earth over carpeting to kill larvae.

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. A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen. 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. Food and sweat stains on fabrics can attract carpet beetles.

All of these articles are about carpet beetle larvae and they are only a sample of the many articles we have written about them. Diatomaceous earth is the skeletal remains of diatoms an ancient form of algae. 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. Sometimes bugs such as flies carpet bugs and moths lay eggs in carpeting.