Tiny Black Carpet Beetles

Carpet beetles also are known as little black beetles and are most common around the house carpet.

Tiny black carpet beetles. They feed on cloth fiber pet foods or cereals. These tiny black beetle bugs belong to the family dermestidae and their larvae can be a true household pest. These tiny carpet beetles start out their adult life as white beetles. Black carpet beetle larvae are longer than many other carpet beetle larvae and are brown and gold in color.

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. Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs. 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. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color. 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.

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. Attagenus unicolor is the scientific name for the black carpet beetle. They reproduce very slowly so rarely do they become noticeable or a great nuisance. They do not cause diseases nor bite human beings.

One variety of household pest that can fit the tiny black beetle description is the common carpet beetle.