Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

They can cause damage to natural cloth fibers or cereals.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Slow moving tiny black beetles that crawl or fly around homes. Carpet beetles are covered in tiny hairs which are difficult to see unless you look at them under magnification. Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in colour. The furniture and varied carpet beetles also bear unique coloured scales specific to the type.

Eggs are pearly white in color and small. Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house. Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color.

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. 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. 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. 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.