Live in an apartment - top floor. Found quite a few of these under a box with books. Some of them were dead and dry, others - really tiny worm-looking things ('worm' as in a lay person's language - anything teeny wriggling looks like a teeny worm or a teeny caterpillar). This one was bigger with more visible features.Found them primarily in this one room.
What is this?
Why primarily in one room?
What brings them here?
How do I keep them from re-appearing?
Thank you!
This is a larva of a beetle in the family Dermestidae (carpet/hide/skin/larder beetles and allies). They will feed on a very wide variety of organic materials (including accumulations of dead insects such as may be found in old light fixtures or behind baseboards), and some species may become pantry pests, feeding on dry stored food products. See http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7436.html for some control suggestions.
This is a larva of a beetle in the family Dermestidae (carpet/hide/skin/larder beetles and allies). They will feed on a very wide variety of organic materials (including accumulations of dead insects such as may be found in old light fixtures or behind baseboards), and some species may become pantry pests, feeding on dry stored food products. See http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7436.html for some control suggestions.
This is a larva of a beetle in the family Dermestidae (carpet/hide/skin/larder beetles and allies). They will feed on a very wide variety of organic materials (including accumulations of dead insects such as may be found in old light fixtures or behind baseboards), and some species may become pantry pests, feeding on dry stored food products. See http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7436.html for some control suggestions.
