In this instance, we found a good number of beetle larvae wriggling around this person's mattress. These were carpet beetle larvae, a fairly common pest in the NYC area.
Here is a closeup of what one looks like from a photo on the infraweb, all rights reserved:
Often times these larvae will cause skin reactions on people similar to bed bug bites. That, plus the fact that they also can hang out in your bed, often causes people to think that they have bed bugs when actually they do not.
The best advice I can give you for this situation is to vacuum. Get a vacuum with an extendable hose and a fine tipped attachment and suck the worms out of your bed. The larvae can in fact do damage to your fabrics, so that might motivate you if the thought of worms crawling around your bed was not enough.
On another note, I want to thank all of our readers for helping to make Ew York City the number one destination for my pest related pictures throughout the entire world. We couldn't have done it without each other, and I sincerely hope that these past pest posts have inspired you to keep your world a little cleaner, a little leaner, and a little cleaner.
Ew York City will be back Monday. Keep on the straight and narrow.
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