We believe the group of worm-like organisms our reader found on the outside of her house are carpet beetle larvae. We encourage our reader to clear away these larvae and to keep them out of her home, where they could become destructive pests.

A reader sent in a photograph to us of a type of worm that he had found in his home. It was located near the floor from the look of the photo and very small. With the little amount of information that we got from the reader it is hard for us to give a complete and full identification of this worm however; after doing some research of our own, we have concluded that they are more than likely a type of larvae. We have decided that these wormlike creatures are carpet beetle larvae.

A rather distressed reader wrote to us the other day about some worms he found on the bathroom floor. To his further chagrin and disgust (the word “yuck,” all letters capitalized, appeared twice in the reader’s email), he also found one of the worms in the basket of his dirty laundry. The worms are small, about one centimeter in length, and they are a clear brownish color. The worms also have several horizontal lines on their body. What are these small worms on the bathroom floor, and what can our reader do to get rid of them?