Tiny Brown Carpet Beetles

As its name suggests drugstore beetles love to feed on stored products.

Tiny brown carpet beetles.

Identification colour dark brown to black size from 2 mm to 5 mm long also known as furniture carpet beetles varied carpet beetles and black carpet beetles. You may occasionally find carpet beetles in your pantry feeding on grains. Description all varieties of carpet beetle are oval in shape with chewing mouthparts and very short clubbed antennae. This tiny flying beetle is also named the biscuit beetle or bread beetle and is similar in appearance to the cigarette beetle.

The adults are 1 16 to 1 8 inch long and oval shaped. These types of materials carpet beetles routinely feast on include wool felt leather silk fur and feathers. They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange. Larvae are about 1 8 to 1 4 inch long tan to brownish in color slow moving and densely covered with hairs or bristles.

Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and. The hair is organized in a way that it forms a combination of dark and light patches. In a few weeks the tiny eggs laid by adult beetles hatch into the fabric consuming larvae. These beetles may also eat synthetic fabrics if they are soiled with food or oils.

The larva of the carpet beetle is covered in visible thick brown stripes. It grows up to 5 mm in length. Carpet beetles have a body that is wider towards the end. Adult carpet beetles are small and often appear speckled or mottled.