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Varied carpet beetle are extremely destructive if left to forage and will destroy carpets and clothing natural fabrics such as wools, silks, furs, and cottons are a prime target.
Carpet beetle larvae known as ‘woolly bears’ avoid the light and live indoors usually in dark undisturbed places such as under carpets and inside wardrobes and clothing cupboards.
Carpet beetle infestation can be readily identified by remnants of frass, which is the beetles excrement coloured to what the insect is feeding on. It’s a dry uniform pattern consisting of tiny granules. Additional evidence can be noted with cast larval skins scattered across the infested area. These are cast empty skins left behind when the beetle moults from one stage of it’s life cycle to the next.
About Carpet Beetles
Carpet beetles are fairly small measuring 1.5 to 4 mm in length. The body is strongly convex rather like the ladybird beetle and is characterised by the pattern of yellow black and whitish scales on the body. Between 20 and 100 eggs are laid by the female during spring and early summer on fur woollens and any dried materials of animal origin.
When the larvae hatch out they are hairy and brown with three bunches of golden hairs on the abdomen. They normally reach a length of 4-5 mm. The larvae can last at least a year depending on the quality of the food supply. The adults appear in April May and June and their resulting larvae hibernate during the following winter pupating during the latter part of February and March. On emergence the adult beetles seek the light so they usually fly to the windows. They fly to light coloured flowers where they feed on nectar and pollen.
