Because they feed on natural cloth fibers cereals and pet food most homes contain at least a few carpet beetles.
Tiny black carpet beetles.
They do not cause diseases nor bite human beings.
Adults do not cause damage indoors.
One variety of household pest that can fit the tiny black beetle description is the common carpet beetle.
Attagenus unicolor is the scientific name for the black carpet beetle.
These tiny carpet beetles start out their adult life as white beetles.
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.
Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye.
These tiny black beetle bugs belong to the family dermestidae and their larvae can be a true household pest.
They feed on cloth fiber pet foods or cereals.
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.
A clump of golden hairs is located at the end of their bodies.
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.
Carpet beetles also are known as little black beetles and are most common around the house carpet.
Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs.
Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background.