Food and sweat stains on fabrics can attract carpet beetles.
Small white worms in carpet.
Treat spills and stains immediately as well.
Diatomaceous earth is the skeletal remains of diatoms an ancient form of algae.
Clean carpet beetle prone areas frequently.
When the eggs hatch small white worms the larvae infest the carpeting.
Sometimes bugs such as flies carpet bugs and moths lay eggs in 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.
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.
Two major home invaders are the carpet bug better known as the carpet beetle and the maggot which is actually a house fly larvae.
A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen.
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.
Sprinkle diatomaceous earth over carpeting to kill larvae.