Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

The larvae are carrot shaped and long with a golden or brownish appearance.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Most adult carpet beetles range from 2 mm to 5 mm in length with very short clubbed antennae and chewing mouthparts. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color. Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs. Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house.

Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background. Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in colour. Carpet beetles are covered in tiny hairs which are difficult to see unless you look at them under magnification.

Slow moving tiny black beetles that crawl or fly around homes. They can cause damage to natural cloth fibers or cereals. A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs. The adults are small 1 16 to 1 8 inch oval shaped beetles ranging in color from black to various mottled patterns of white brown yellow and orange.

They vary in size from 1 8 th to 3 16 th of an inch in length. Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics. These small black bugs have short oval body and short inconspicuous antennae on their head.