Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

The adults are small 1 16 to 1 8 inch oval shaped beetles ranging in color from black to various mottled patterns of white brown yellow and orange.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Eggs are pearly white in color and small. Carpet beetles are covered in tiny hairs which are difficult to see unless you look at them under magnification. The larvae are carrot shaped and long with a golden or brownish appearance. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background.

Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color. Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in colour. Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house. Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye.

They vary in size from 1 8 th to 3 16 th of an inch in length. Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics. Slow moving tiny black beetles that crawl or fly around homes. They measure up to 0 1 3 mm in length.

These small black bugs have short oval body and short inconspicuous antennae on their head. Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs. A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs.