Small red worm like bug in bed at night?

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One of my little wrigglers from the composter.

Worm composting is a method for recycling food waste into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil conditioner. The great advantage of worm composting is that this can be done indoors and outdoors, thus allowing year round composting. It also provides apartment dwellers with a means of composting. In a nutshell, worm compost is made in a container filled with moistened bedding and redworms. Add your food waste for a period of time, and the worms and micro-organisms will eventually convert the entire contents into rich compost.

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Question by luckienyc: Small red worm like bug in bed at night?
HI
I woke up one night to bug bites on my hand. I saw a small mosquito in the room and killed it. I had the window opened – usually I don’t.
The next day I had more small bites on my shoulder. I do have a garden and was working out there. So not sure when I got them. They were read a little itchy but have gone away except for a teeny red dot.
I checked the bed and box spring and did not see anything that resembles what I read about bed bugs.
Tonight I went to bed and a little while after I turned out the light my cat was scratching so I quickly turned on the light to find a small reddish brown-worm inching around.
I got it in time and saved it, it curled up and died . I stripped the bed – 3AM thank you.. and did not see anything else..
Any suggestions as to what it could be? I have been searching and want to go to bed…yeah right!
Thanks!
yeah – already there – and dosed up on a sleeping pill – thanks!
OH and I have seen a couple centipedes around the house….
I think it was a centipede larvae. I keep seeing adults in the apt..probably because we had a roach issue couple months ago they feed on them…ewwww

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2 Responses to Small red worm like bug in bed at night?

  1. i really dont know but i would sleep on the couch lol until tomorrow.

    TTC#2 praying for a +
    November 13, 2011 at 5:55 pm
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  2. Its probably carpet beetle larvae. Click on that link and if its a match thats what you have.

    http://www.pestcontrolcanada.com/Questions/Ohio%20carpet%20beetle%20larva.jpg

    McDreamy
    November 13, 2011 at 6:32 pm
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