Tiny Black Carpet Beetles

Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs.

Tiny black carpet beetles.

Black carpet beetle larvae can survive up to 640 days and adults can live for a couple of months. Carpet beetles also are known as little black beetles and are most common around the house carpet. A clump of golden hairs is located at the end of their bodies. Attagenus unicolor is the scientific name for the black carpet beetle.

Because they feed on natural cloth fibers cereals and pet food most homes contain at least a few carpet beetles. The small black carpet beetle is an indoor invasive pest. They reproduce very slowly so rarely do they become noticeable or a great nuisance. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color.

Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background. Black carpet beetle larvae are longer than many other carpet beetle larvae and are brown and gold in color. These tiny carpet beetles start out their adult life as white beetles. They feed on cloth fiber pet foods or cereals.

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. Adults do not cause damage indoors. It s somehow hard to notice these insects due to their slow reproductive nature but you will find them in most homes. Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics.

They do not cause diseases nor bite human beings.