I'm freaking out about carpet beetle larvae

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5 of the little fluffy fuckers found in the kitchen corner with something dusty around them and a few teeny ones too. When I poured a wee bit of thin bleach on them it made an adult come out of the skirting board

Also, every now and again I've come across them in the livingroom

Only have one carpet in the hall/stairs/landing. The rest or the floors can be scrubbed

I've done as much googling as my skin can take I've got major heebie-jeebies. From what I've read I should
Wash livingroom curtain
Wash floors and pour bleach under skirting boards
Fill up any holes in wood
Replace carpet

Is that right? What else? I can't afford a fumigation

Steam clean the areas where they are.

Title is a bit missleading as the 'beatle' part / there has only been 1 of them I've ever saw any before the kitchen today
The rest are all the furry caterpillar things
Disgusting. I want to move out

@OnAFrolicOfMyOwn my livingroom curtains are floor length and I have found a few of them there over the months. Thought they had blown INTO the house and stuck to the curtain but now have read they like the material
Should I change the curtain to a shorter one?

Depends on whether you have pets or not (we have to wait until we put the little blighters in the cattery to do this), but after you've hoovered and steam cleaned, look up dichaetamous earth and/or Indorex. Indorex will kill just about anything.

Oh, and they don't only live in carpets. The little feckers like all kinds of textiles. I'd never really seen them before a couple of years ago, we currently live in the north west of England in a countrified sort of bit and there are insects here I've never seen before in 55 years...

Sorry, that should have been diatomaceous earth. Blame it on the heat and humidity.

There's no need if you clean the curtains thoroughly. Steam cleaning will kill them, and as pp said products like Indorex will kill anything - they are just a pain to use because you have to vacate the area afterwards and keep pets away.

Do you have wooden floors/tiles etc? If you do, they shouldn't even be that hard to get rid of.

A good vacuum and mop to kill and disturb will do it. Maybe wash any rugs that can fit in the machine.

I usually use a flash speed mop but think I should to be using a proper mop and hot water and bleach them floor cleaner from now on?

All floors are hard except the hall/stairs/landing so hoping it is as easy as you say to get on top of....

And yes, I have a dog who has allergies to the field next to us so she scrapes her belly on the carpet all through the night

She has recently been leaving half of her food overnight and in the morning it looks like wood shavings in the bowl. I now know that's not what it has been 🤢

@hellohelp
Did you get rid? We have adults in March then some larvae in our bedroom and bathroom, nothing for ages then I've just found one larvae in my daughters room tonight. We have steamed everything, , filled cracks under skirting boards, deep hoovered every week. Had pest control in to check loft etc. I can't figure out where this one bloody larvae has come from and they give me the ick.

@bambamalam1 do you have carpets or wood on your floors?

I (sort of) have it under control. Unfortunately the carpet in my hall that is the connection between my kitchen and living room where the fuckers go, needs to be replaced. I think I won't see another once that's done but right now there is still the odd one

My kitchen and living room were the problem. I hoovered the floors, sweeped corners, mopped then sprayed Raid round the skirting boards and mopped sway any excess. Any left behind I hadn't got eventually walked through the Raid and I'd find them dead in the morning in the middle of the room. I can handle them being dead. The thought of them crawling around my house makes me want to throw up!

Carpet and wood floors, but every carpet and rug has been steam cleaned and hoovered thoroughly. Bedroom carpet being replaced in two weeks as it's older and that's where we found them originally.
We only saw a few adults in our bedroom and two larvae, the rest of the larvae were disgustingly enough behind the loo which DH hadn't cleaned. Again bathroom steam cleaned several times and none seen.
Just this rogue larvae in kids bedroom tonight.
I'm just exhausted with the cleaning and we can't use spray as have a toddler.
Pest control said one or two isn't an issue but I HATE the larvae.
Plus we go on hol this week and I hate the thought that they will be wandering around or we will have missed ones. It's been going on since March and given me a bit of OCD and we are compete clean freaks anyway.

Did u manage to get the beetle larvae problem sorted?

We get them about once a year round about now, they seem to have left in the last week or so after a few weeks of seeing loads of them. We’ve never got to the bottom of what’s caused them or where they come from. The first time we ever had them, we covered the house in a spray from Amazon and found a wool scarf with a lot of them attached and it’s never been as bad since that was removed, so we did sort of get it under control, but they do come back sadly.