Our reader has sent us a photo of what she describes as tiny worms. The photo unfortunately doesn’t provide enough detail to describe what she’s got all over the wardrobe and clothing in her daughter’s room. The dark color indicates that it’s likely not a moth worm, which are typically white with a brown head. From what we can see of the larger of the images, which we believe to be on a drawer pull for scale, the “worms” look more like ants, and appear to have lobes, or bulges, or a head and body. If they are wormlike, the specimens are possibly beetle larvae. Carpet beetles or "larder beetles" of the Dermistidae family thrive on dead skin cells, dry plant material such as pollen, animal hair, feathers, dead insects and natural fibers. The larvae are small and typically brown. Continue reading [...]…