Woolly Bears Carpet Beetles

The variegated carpet beetle is 2 to 4mm long like a small mottled brown grey and cream ladybird.

Woolly bears carpet beetles. These are mostly brown with white or yellow markings and are covered in short bristly hairs hence their well known woolly bear moniker. As is so often the case it is the larva that does all the damage. We again have found some carpet beetle larvae in the cupboard under the stairs. A nasty shock awaited this customer on moving their sofa a carpet destroyed by carpet moths.

Carpet beetles are oval shaped and difficult to spot as they are only 2 to 4mm long. Carpet beetles and wooly bears all categories clothes and carpet moths. Last week one of our technicians recorded some amazing footage of a carpet beetle larvae often called a woolly bear. We carry a huge range of carpet beetle products our range includes traps sprays pheromones and kits we have put together with advice sheets to guide you in your quest to eradicate a carpet beetle problem.

Verbasci was also the first insect to be shown to have an. In the uk carpet beetles and clothes moths are the biggest threat to our textiles. Carpet beetle larvae aka woolly bears don t be fooled by the cuddly name 11 posts add message report. The larvae known as woolly bears of these small oval beetles have outstripped the clothes moths as the major british textile pest.

Carpet beetles consists of antennae that are segmented. There are eleven of them with a combination of three segments. The related fur beetle is black with one spot on each wing case and there is a rarer black carpet beetle. The larvae are small about 4mm long covered in brown hairs and tend to roll up when disturbed.

The small hairy larvae of the carpet or fur beetles are known as woolly bears. It is not actually the moths which cause the damage but instead their larvae which feed on wool and natural fibres. I had noticed a couple of beetles a few months back and got rid but they must have laid some eggs in there and now we have these little b stards again. 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.

These small oval beetles have outstripped the clothes moths as the major british textile pest. Carpet moth treatment suffolk. The larvae of carpet beetles are referred to as woolly bears.