I Found Worms On The Kitchen Floor

A reader recently found little white worms in his kitchen.

I found worms on the kitchen floor.

The other white worms in that size range that can be found in kitchens are fly maggots but those do not have legs. Other most likely food sources are coarse milled grain products like cornmeal indian meal wheat or graham four or cereals. These worms are brown or black about 3 4 of an inch long very thin and when they die they usually curl into a circle. I live on the bottom floor.

The worms are small about one centimeter in. I found worms under my kitchen sink and what seams to be a pile of brown wood or gravel. 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. A rather distressed reader wrote to us the other day about some worms he found on the bathroom floor.

Homeowners often find small worms on their walls and baseboards. These common indoor pests lay their eggs along baseboards and in protected areas. Little white worms in the kitchen. Infested foods will be covered with irregular silken webbing spun by the feeding larvae.

Any information would help. The larvae of indian meal moths are often spotted crawling along walls and baseboards. Most the time they are on the tile floor but recently i have found them on my rug in the bedroom and a few have been crawling on the wall. If the worms are limited to your kitchen and are crawling up walls and along ceilings it s a good bet that they are indianmeal moth larvae.

I have lived here for five years and have never saw this before. The reader left dirty washing perhaps something like dirty plates or dirty rags on the kitchen floor over night and in the morning there were lots of little white worms on the kitchen floor directly underneath the washing. At first i thought it might be a sliverfish larvae but after researching i found out that it is not. It wiggled on the floor at a kinda fast pace for it s size.

These worms are most likely the larval form of pests such as house flies or indian meal moths.