Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

The larvae are carrot shaped and long with a golden or brownish appearance.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house. A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs. 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. Eggs are pearly white in color and small.

The furniture and varied carpet beetles also bear unique coloured scales specific to the type. Most adult carpet beetles range from 2 mm to 5 mm in length with very short clubbed antennae and chewing mouthparts. Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background.

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

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