Carpet beetle larvae are, well, carpet beetle larvae, and they are very frequently found in or under carpets and rugs because they feed on them. The reader also mentioned that she is finding the “worms” on the carpet and the baseboards in her apartment, and that they seem to “prefer darkness over light,” and both of these facts further imply that she is dealing with carpet beetle larvae. However, we suspect the reader mistakenly thought the larvae were adults, which explains why no larval form was found in addition to the larvae themselves. What is somewhat unusual is that the reader specifically mentioned she didn’t find any larvae. For the record, carpet beetle larvae, being larvae, are not in fact worms, although our reader’s use of the word “worm” to describe them is hardly unusual. If the body color and stripes of the larvae are dark enough, they basically look like small black worms. In general, carpet beetle larvae aren’t entirely black – they tend to be tan or brownish color with darker stripes – but this isn’t true of every species. To begin, the physical description of the creature given by our reader matches that of the carpet beetle larvae, which are always small (under a half an inch in length normally) and are sometimes a very dark color.
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