Carpet Weevil Larvae

Both adult carpet beetles and larvae can infest your home but the larvae do the most damage by eating organic materials like wool leather and silk.

Carpet weevil larvae.

Their food preference includes all kinds of fabrics and dead insects. Full sized larvae can be as long as 5 16 inch and range from light brown to almost black. In a few weeks the tiny eggs laid by adult beetles hatch into the fabric consuming larvae. It grows up to 5 mm in length.

Larvae typically are light brown to black and covered in dense sometimes barbed hairs. The hair is organized in a way that it forms a combination of dark and light patches. The larvae of carpet beetles are referred to as woolly bears. Three distinct golden hairs are located upon the abdomen at this stage of development.

Carpet beetle larvae can leave irregular holes in carpets and fabric and eating through whole chunks of wool silk feathers and leather. Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and. Adults and larvae of the black carpet beetle attagenus unicolor are distinctly different from the carpet beetles described above. Meanwhile when they molt their dead skin can cause allergic reactions and dermatitis in sensitive individuals.

The bristly hairs found on carpet beetle larvae can cause skin irritation. They have an elongated body which is covered in hair or large setae. They are shiny black and dark brown with brownish legs. The adults are 1 16 to 1 8 inch long and oval shaped.

Larvae are basically immature carpet beetles which have come out of their eggs and are now looking to feed. They usually are slightly larger than the adult beetles and measure approximately 2 5 cm in length. Hairs visible upon their backs easily identify carpet beetle larvae. They are generally carrot shaped to oval shaped and brown to tan in color with white and tan stripes.

Adult carpet beetles are small and often appear speckled or mottled. Some species of carpet beetle may also exhibit orange coloration. The varied carpet beetle anthrenus verbasci is a 3 mm long beetle belonging to the family dermestidae. They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange.

Adult black carpet beetles range from 1 8 to 3 16 inch long. To know where to focus the brunt of your cleaning first look for the primary source of the infestation which will be the area with the most signs of damage and beetles. Carpet beetle larvae are the form of beetles that comes between the egg stage and the adult stage of their growth cycle.