Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs. Most adult carpet beetles range from 2 mm to 5 mm in length with very short clubbed antennae and chewing mouthparts. Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics. Eggs are pearly white in color and small.

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. They can cause damage to natural cloth fibers or cereals.

The larvae are carrot shaped and long with a golden or brownish appearance. Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house. They vary in size from 1 8 th to 3 16 th of an inch in length. The furniture and varied carpet beetles also bear unique coloured scales specific to the type.

Carpet beetles are covered in tiny hairs which are difficult to see unless you look at them under magnification. Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye. 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.