Pictures Of Different Stages Of Carpet Beetle

Full sized larvae can be as long as 5 16 inch and range from light brown to almost black.
Pictures of different stages of carpet beetle. Adult black carpet beetles range from 1 8 to 3 16 inch long. Larvae typically are light brown to black and covered in dense sometimes barbed hairs. They are shiny black and dark brown with brownish legs. The duration of the larval stage also depends on the type of carpet beetle species and temperature.
Common carpet beetle larvae take between two and three months to reach pupation varied carpet beetle larvae may need up to two years and black carpet beetle larvae develop in the larval stage for six months to just under a year. Most species of carpet beetle measure 1 to 4 mm in length as adults. The pests can also proliferate on bird nests animal carcasses and dead insects cluster flies lady beetles stink bugs wasps etc which tend to be associated with attics chimneys basements and light fixtures. Their bodies are oval shaped.
The life cycle of a carpet beetle ranges from two months to several years in length. Black white and yellow patterned coloration some species of carpet beetle may also exhibit orange coloration. Adults and larvae of the black carpet beetle attagenus unicolor are distinctly different from the carpet beetles described above. Carpet beetles can also thrive on lint hair and debris accumulating under baseboards and inside floor vents and ducts.
The varied carpet beetle anthrenus verbasci is a 3 mm long beetle belonging to the family dermestidae they are a common species often considered a pest of domestic houses and particularly natural history museums where the larvae may damage natural fibers and can damage carpets furniture clothing and insect collections.