Tiny Brown Carpet Beetles

You may occasionally find carpet beetles in your pantry feeding on grains.

Tiny brown carpet beetles.

They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange. 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. In a few weeks the tiny eggs laid by adult beetles hatch into the fabric consuming larvae.

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. As its name suggests drugstore beetles love to feed on stored products. Carpet beetles have a body that is wider towards the end. Adult carpet beetles are small and often appear speckled or mottled.

One species of brown beetle from the family ptinidae is the drugstore beetle scientific name. This tiny flying beetle is also named the biscuit beetle or bread beetle and is similar in appearance to the cigarette beetle. Carpet beetles congregate wherever animal fibers can be consumed. Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and.

The adults are 1 16 to 1 8 inch long and oval shaped. It grows up to 5 mm in length. The hair is organized in a way that it forms a combination of dark and light patches. Larvae are about 1 8 to 1 4 inch long tan to brownish in color slow moving and densely covered with hairs or bristles.