Wool Carpet Beetles

Unlike wood beetles that only eat wood carpet beetles are notoriously known to feed on anything including cotton wool fibers foods and animal products.

Wool carpet beetles. The beetles live outside but will come inside to lay their eggs on juicy looking carpet any time of the year. The larvae of the carpet beetle will eat wool carpet and wool rugs can eat lots of it and will permanently damage the carpet. Carpet beetles as their name implies sometimes infest carpets. To know where to focus the brunt of your cleaning first look for the primary source of the infestation which will be the area with the most signs of damage and beetles.

Similar to clothes moths the pests also feed on many other items composed of wool fur felt silk feathers skins and leather. Such materials contain keratin a fibrous animal protein which the larvae are able to digest. Carpet beetles feed on organic materials such as animal and human hair plants and any materials made from animals such as wool silk leather and fur. Adult carpet beetles do not cause damage by feeding this is done when they are in the larval stage.

In general they. Synthetic carpet is not attacked or damaged by carpet beetle grubs.