Have you ever noticed some very small crawlers parading in carpets? If so, what you see is a carpet beetle. They’re tiny pests that lurk and destroy carpets, fabrics and sometimes feed on dead insects. They also burrow in clothes or items made of fur, silk and feathers and hide in decorative items made in bones and horns. These creepy crawlers are often within attics and basements and nestled in carpets, tapestries or floor to wall and wall-to-wall carpeting.

Belonging to the same family of beetles, the dermestids, these insects are generally found in areas such as warehouses, attics, museums and other places where food is available. On the other hand, though adult carpet beetles don’t feed on fabrics, their larvae do. Adult carpet beetles go out to feed on pollen and nectar from flowers, while the young ones are swarming under the carpet and carpets and feeding on it.

Carpet beetles are capable of sporting out clothing materials, rugs and carpets for they are fed on that material aside, from dead insect carcasses. They are often mistaken as lady bugs but somehow they’re smaller in size, roughly ⅛ to 1/4 of an inch. They have white, brown and black spots decorated in their dome-shaped carapace.

Preventing a carpet beetle can be achieved with the assistance of pest management services. They will provide the right solution to manage and control these tiny and annoying pests.