Need Help Recognising This Worm

Sash18 · Sep 8, 2018

Hi,

Today I found this worm on my cat around his lower tail area. There are no clear signs of infection nor are there any changes in his behaviour. After looking up worms online I suspect this might just be a larva of a carpet beetle but I just wanted to make sure and ask here just in case. He is not an outdoor cat and my flat stays very clean so it seemed odd to find this on him. Can anyone recognise this?

abyeb · Sep 8, 2018

That doesn’t look like an intestinal parasite to me. Tapeworms look like grains of rice, roundworms are long and round. Hookworms and whipworms are too small to see with the naked eye.

Willowy · Sep 8, 2018

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's a carpet beetle larva. They're everywhere. Don't worry about it! (Unless you find a lot of them, then call an exterminator.)