Tiny Carpet Worms

You may want to vacuum couches or bedding as well.

Tiny carpet worms.

Remove furniture and. How to kill worms in your carpet step 1. 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. Tiny circular worms in outdoor carpet garden guides small worm larva carpet beetle bugguide net.

Don t ever skip looking for these as evidence of adults also indicates probable presence of larvae. Depending on the type of larvae that we re encountering we re going to take a different approach to get rid of them. Sprinkle diatomaceous earth over carpeting to kill larvae. In 99 99 of cases those tiny worms are actually larvae.

Even without a picture which is generally essential to a successful creature identification we are confident that the reader is finding carpet beetle larvae. Almost without exception people call small insect larvae worms which is understandable but technically incorrect at least on certain definitions of the word worm. They could be spider larvae moth larvae fly larvae beetle larvae etc. Look for the carpet bug larvae.

So the small black worms are in fact small black larvae. And when they grow up those worm like looking things will turn into insects. However we are confident that these creatures are not carpet beetle larvae. Vacuum the carpet thoroughly including under all furniture.

Carpet beetle larvae look much different than the three specimens in the photograph. Wool rugs are particularly susceptible to moth infestation because moth larvae eat wool. Diatomaceous earth is the skeletal remains of. When the eggs hatch small white worms the larvae infest the carpeting.