Tiny White Eggs In Carpet

Carpet moths are stubborn when it comes to leaving your home.

Tiny white eggs in carpet.

Paul brown on tiny little pests who can munch their way through the finest floorcoverings in a remarkably short time. The adults do not live long and the mated adult female lays hundreds of eggs in her short life time. Diatomaceous earth de is a unique chalky white powder that is made of fossilized aquatic organisms diatoms or phytoplankton. Mate and lay between 30 and 300 eggs back on the.

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. 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. The eggs will be laid in the quieter darker and undisturbed areas of carpets and rugs and lay dormant for approximately 4 to 10 days before hatching. Diatomaceous earth is the skeletal remains of diatoms an ancient form of algae.

Any type of food in my home immediaty has small white looking skinny worms protrude out of the edges. 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. De is great for killing bugs because it causes them to dry out it absorbs the oils and fats from the insect s exoskeleton.

Adult carpet beetles are small and often appear speckled or mottled. Sprinkle diatomaceous earth over carpeting to kill larvae. You can sprinkle it on carpets furniture and bedding. A mated female carpet moth can lay around 200 eggs in her short adult life and an infestation can very quickly get out of hand.

Damaged carpet in dark corner of customers lounge picture shows where the wool fibres have been eaten by the larva of the carpet moth. De is great for dust mites too. The carpet moth has a very similar life cycle to a clothes moth. Heat definitely seems to increase the activity.