Tiny Black Carpet Beetles

They feed on cloth fiber pet foods or cereals.

Tiny black carpet beetles.

Because they feed on natural cloth fibers cereals and pet food most homes contain at least a few carpet beetles. One variety of household pest that can fit the tiny black beetle description is the common carpet beetle. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background. 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. A clump of golden hairs is located at the end of their bodies. Attagenus unicolor is the scientific name for the black carpet beetle. Black carpet beetle larvae are longer than many other carpet beetle larvae and are brown and gold in color.

Carpet beetles also are known as little black beetles and are most common around the house carpet. It s somehow hard to notice these insects due to their slow reproductive nature but you will find them in most homes. Black carpet beetle larvae can survive up to 640 days and adults can live for a couple of months. The small black carpet beetle is an indoor invasive pest.

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. These tiny carpet beetles start out their adult life as white beetles. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color.

Adults do not cause damage indoors.