Baby Furniture Carpet Beetle

There are three types of carpet beetles the varied carpet beetles the black carpet beetles and the furniture carpet beetle.

Baby furniture carpet beetle. Also carpet beetle larvae leave brown shell like bristly looking cast skins when they molt. Common furniture beetles will infest damp wood if given the opportunity. Description and life cycle back to top.

Carpet beetles are more of a threat to your clothes. These immature pests also have bristly hairs that can irritate skin. Carpet mites although you may see the terms carpet mites and carpet beetles used interchangeably these two pests are actually quite different.

This is most certainly a carpet beetle and a carpet beetle larva and it very closely resembles a varied carpet beetle anthrenus verbasci however the larva is too dark to be that species. When carpet beetles mature into adults they feed on pollen instead of fabric items. As the carpet beetle grows its diet changes it starts consuming pollen and nectar from plants.

They re covered with bristles and shed their skin as they grow. The furniture carpet beetle is a cosmopolitan pest and is most destructive in warmer parts of the world. Carpet beetle infestations can spread pretty quickly.

The carpet beetles never bite or destroy anything it is their young ones you should blame. Most carpet beetle damage results from larvae eating holes into natural fiber items like wool silk feathers dead insects and leather. One of the best methods of control is thorough cleaning.

Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and tan or brownish. These skins as well as a lack of webbing are usually good indicators that carpet beetles are the perpetrators rather than clothes moths. They generally do not feed on synthetic fabrics but might attack these items if they are soiled with food oil and perspiration.