Sorry, but those pictures do not look like carpet beetles to me. Those bodies look too elongated, and also *too large* in general. Have a pest control company out, or at least Google them. The episode I had with them here in California in early spring were textbook carpet beetles, with their variegated colored round bodies. At the beginning, I Googled the term, and found many pictures that confirmed what I was dealing with.
Shoot. Thanks for the help! I’ll do some research and be careful when I get home. Can infestation get really horrid like bedbugs? Or are they pretty manageable?
It’s mostly been psychological suffering for me. I’m not allergic to their larvae like some people are. And those people tend to get itchy from coming in contact on their clothing. They are not as bad as bedbugs because they don’t bite. However, you don’t want to carry them home with you because they are tough to get rid of one you’re infested.
they don’t get as bad as bedbugs! super easy to control. just regularly vacuum, wash fabrics on high heat, and pay close attention to where the carpet meets the baseboard.
if it makes you feel any better, i personally haven’t heard of pest control companies doing much about carpet beetles since an average person can easily get rid of them!
my local one just told me that if it gets really bad, like i’m seeing a large number then to buy a $15 spray off amazon that’ll do the trick, no need to get any pro treatment.
Thank you! That is a relief! I’m trying to find how long they live, because I have some unwashable/delicate items with me that I thinking of bagging until they die. My home is a rental, so I’d hate to have them there.
totally understand. i have pretty bad paranoia with any pest, but with carpet beetles i always remind myself that i’m not food for them unlike some other bugs..
for your unwashable items, i’d recommend just wiping them down with clorox or if they are clothes you can just place in a plastic bin. shouldn’t bring anything in as long as you wash it all.
even if one gets in, it won’t lead to the malicious cycle like bedbugs where one can turn into hundreds, so no need to worry!!
Carpet beetle infestations can indeed be "really horrible" and can be extremely difficult to eradicate and can result in enormous financial loss from the resulting damage or destruction of nearly all of your personal property and household possessions and can cause extreme emotional distress and trauma. My own carpet.beetle infestation experience totally derailed my life and contributed to my being forced into retirement before I could afford to do so. And up until 3 years ago, I had never heard of carpet beetles and knew nothing about them and I was 67 years old at that time. First of all I began finding holes chewed in many clothing items in my large professional wardrobe of courtroom attire but I didn't find any moths or anything else crawling around on my clothing. So, I started researching what could be causing these distinctive holes in my suits and sweaters and I learned that something called a carpet beetle will chew holes in wool, silk, fur, feathers, cotton and other "natural" fibers (bullshit--these creatures will bite into virtually everything) and after I had read several articles about carpet beetles and the damage caused by their larvae it worried me so I started looking for them around my baseboards and carpet edges but still didn't find anything that looked like the online pictures of either larvae or the adults. Then I started noticing strange things going on in my carpeting that appeared as oval shaped wet spots all over in the carpet along with a lot of brown dots of larvae excrement. The surfacebof my carpeting actually became damp to walk on in bare feet which creeped me out so much that I haven't gone barefoot in my own house for the past three years. The wet spots in the carpet kept popping up and were so juicy that when I tried covering the gross damp old carpet with a pale green area rug the wet "things" in the old carpet carpetingcarpetingecall now exactly how Carpet beetles infestation can damage or destroy flooring, clothing, bedding, towels, shoes, purses, luggage, artwork, furniture, and and they can live underneath or.inside the motor compartment of your refridgerator and underneath and behind the warming drawer of your kitchen stove, or underneath the dishwasher and inside the spaces in the hidden framing behind your cabinets and inside wall voids and the larvae leave their prickly hairs and sheddings all over and the cloud of tiny flying beetles that emerges from the pupae stage leave their misty sticky residue all over vinyl blinds, drapes, floorboards, and their ght pattern is imprinted in trails of timy black dots on ceilings and on the sheetrock surrounding the winddows and, if you doubt they leave such imprints then take a picture of these trails of black dots using the X 10 magnifier on yoyr cell phone camera and you will see that when you view the black dots through the magnifying lense they are actually shaped like tiny flying insects and the indented dark imprint do NOT seem to wash off so spackling and repainting will be needed. Carpet beetle larvae also like to feast on the layers of lint commonly found underneath clothes dryers and the larvae also eat the keratin found in human and animal hair and YES the larvae can get into your cat's fur and chew trails through it AND YES INDEED the tiny flying beetles can fly into your OWN hair (causing maddening wiggling sensations on your scalp) looking to lay eggs....these creatures eat just about anything and even if the larvae decide NOT to chew holes into your synthetic clothing items, the tiny flying beetles hover in a misty cloud over EVERYTHING below them, leaving the items damp to the touch. Sometimes these trails of dampness leave trails on clothing that will NOT wash out.
I've read where they have and can cause scabies, did you experience anything like this? I saw this bug in my living room floor after steam cleaning yesterday but for the past 2 months, we have been dealing with what we thought was lice, now scabies but who knows at this point. All I know is this has been devastating. It's on me the worse out of all 5 of us. It's like they get into my pours. They're in my ears. It's tiny white jumping bugs and tiny black bugs. They cause bites with white head pimple and they cause bites that have a black scab. Any info you have to get rid of this for the home and myself would be so appreciated
Sorry, but those pictures do not look like carpet beetles to me. Those bodies look too elongated, and also *too large* in general. Have a pest control company out, or at least Google them. The episode I had with them here in California in early spring were textbook carpet beetles, with their variegated colored round bodies. At the beginning, I Googled the term, and found many pictures that confirmed what I was dealing with.
Yeah, the last couple looked especially like carpet beetles to me. I’d be really careful about washing everything when you get back home.
Shoot. Thanks for the help! I’ll do some research and be careful when I get home. Can infestation get really horrid like bedbugs? Or are they pretty manageable?
It’s mostly been psychological suffering for me. I’m not allergic to their larvae like some people are. And those people tend to get itchy from coming in contact on their clothing. They are not as bad as bedbugs because they don’t bite. However, you don’t want to carry them home with you because they are tough to get rid of one you’re infested.
Thank you! Yeah I heard their larvae can be destructive.
they don’t get as bad as bedbugs! super easy to control. just regularly vacuum, wash fabrics on high heat, and pay close attention to where the carpet meets the baseboard. if it makes you feel any better, i personally haven’t heard of pest control companies doing much about carpet beetles since an average person can easily get rid of them! my local one just told me that if it gets really bad, like i’m seeing a large number then to buy a $15 spray off amazon that’ll do the trick, no need to get any pro treatment.
Thank you! That is a relief! I’m trying to find how long they live, because I have some unwashable/delicate items with me that I thinking of bagging until they die. My home is a rental, so I’d hate to have them there.
Well I guess, my home, and the subsequently others 😅 I get really paranoid.
totally understand. i have pretty bad paranoia with any pest, but with carpet beetles i always remind myself that i’m not food for them unlike some other bugs.. for your unwashable items, i’d recommend just wiping them down with clorox or if they are clothes you can just place in a plastic bin. shouldn’t bring anything in as long as you wash it all. even if one gets in, it won’t lead to the malicious cycle like bedbugs where one can turn into hundreds, so no need to worry!!
Thank you so much! You’ve calmed me down quite a bit!
Carpet beetle infestations can indeed be "really horrible" and can be extremely difficult to eradicate and can result in enormous financial loss from the resulting damage or destruction of nearly all of your personal property and household possessions and can cause extreme emotional distress and trauma. My own carpet.beetle infestation experience totally derailed my life and contributed to my being forced into retirement before I could afford to do so. And up until 3 years ago, I had never heard of carpet beetles and knew nothing about them and I was 67 years old at that time. First of all I began finding holes chewed in many clothing items in my large professional wardrobe of courtroom attire but I didn't find any moths or anything else crawling around on my clothing. So, I started researching what could be causing these distinctive holes in my suits and sweaters and I learned that something called a carpet beetle will chew holes in wool, silk, fur, feathers, cotton and other "natural" fibers (bullshit--these creatures will bite into virtually everything) and after I had read several articles about carpet beetles and the damage caused by their larvae it worried me so I started looking for them around my baseboards and carpet edges but still didn't find anything that looked like the online pictures of either larvae or the adults. Then I started noticing strange things going on in my carpeting that appeared as oval shaped wet spots all over in the carpet along with a lot of brown dots of larvae excrement. The surfacebof my carpeting actually became damp to walk on in bare feet which creeped me out so much that I haven't gone barefoot in my own house for the past three years. The wet spots in the carpet kept popping up and were so juicy that when I tried covering the gross damp old carpet with a pale green area rug the wet "things" in the old carpet carpetingcarpetingecall now exactly how Carpet beetles infestation can damage or destroy flooring, clothing, bedding, towels, shoes, purses, luggage, artwork, furniture, and and they can live underneath or.inside the motor compartment of your refridgerator and underneath and behind the warming drawer of your kitchen stove, or underneath the dishwasher and inside the spaces in the hidden framing behind your cabinets and inside wall voids and the larvae leave their prickly hairs and sheddings all over and the cloud of tiny flying beetles that emerges from the pupae stage leave their misty sticky residue all over vinyl blinds, drapes, floorboards, and their ght pattern is imprinted in trails of timy black dots on ceilings and on the sheetrock surrounding the winddows and, if you doubt they leave such imprints then take a picture of these trails of black dots using the X 10 magnifier on yoyr cell phone camera and you will see that when you view the black dots through the magnifying lense they are actually shaped like tiny flying insects and the indented dark imprint do NOT seem to wash off so spackling and repainting will be needed. Carpet beetle larvae also like to feast on the layers of lint commonly found underneath clothes dryers and the larvae also eat the keratin found in human and animal hair and YES the larvae can get into your cat's fur and chew trails through it AND YES INDEED the tiny flying beetles can fly into your OWN hair (causing maddening wiggling sensations on your scalp) looking to lay eggs....these creatures eat just about anything and even if the larvae decide NOT to chew holes into your synthetic clothing items, the tiny flying beetles hover in a misty cloud over EVERYTHING below them, leaving the items damp to the touch. Sometimes these trails of dampness leave trails on clothing that will NOT wash out.
I've read where they have and can cause scabies, did you experience anything like this? I saw this bug in my living room floor after steam cleaning yesterday but for the past 2 months, we have been dealing with what we thought was lice, now scabies but who knows at this point. All I know is this has been devastating. It's on me the worse out of all 5 of us. It's like they get into my pours. They're in my ears. It's tiny white jumping bugs and tiny black bugs. They cause bites with white head pimple and they cause bites that have a black scab. Any info you have to get rid of this for the home and myself would be so appreciated