Tiny Black Carpet Beetles

Because they feed on natural cloth fibers cereals and pet food most homes contain at least a few carpet beetles.

Tiny black carpet beetles.

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. Black carpet beetle larvae are longer than many other carpet beetle larvae and are brown and gold in color. Attagenus unicolor is the scientific name for the black carpet beetle. It s somehow hard to notice these insects due to their slow reproductive nature but you will find them in most homes.

They feed on cloth fiber pet foods or cereals. Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye. A clump of golden hairs is located at the end of their bodies. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background.

Black carpet beetle larvae can survive up to 640 days and adults can live for a couple of months. They reproduce very slowly so rarely do they become noticeable or a great nuisance. The small black carpet beetle is an indoor invasive pest. Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs.

These tiny black beetle bugs belong to the family dermestidae and their larvae can be a true household pest. Carpet beetles also are known as little black beetles and are most common around the house carpet. One variety of household pest that can fit the tiny black beetle description is the common carpet beetle. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color.

These tiny carpet beetles start out their adult life as white beetles.