Black Carpet Beetles In Bed

You ve noticed that carpet beetles length varies a lot while bed bugs are always the same length.

Black carpet beetles in bed. If carpet beetles are living in your bed it can be hard to tell if you have them or bed bugs. Bed bugs and carpet beetles are both very small. That s because bed bugs always look the same but there are a lot of carpet beetle. Bed bugs are reddish brown flat and shaped like an apple seed.

Carpet beetles vary in color depending on type e g varied black furniture or common carpet beetles. Both the bed bug and the carpet beetle are problematic. They have short antennae and round bodies and might also have irregular brown orange and white scales or be solid brown or. The carpet beetle and bed bug not only leave similar looking bites but there are other similarities.

The main difference is the color. Bed bug larvae look like little worms while carpet beetle larvae look like fuzzy bugs with little spines all over them. Bed bugs will hide in bedding in ribbing around mattresses in the cracks of hardwood floors behind electrical outlets behind wall coverings in carpets and furniture in wall voids and behind baseboards. Also carpet beetles feed on fabric type substances and bed bugs feed on blood.

Varied carpet beetles do have brown on their backs but they look more spotted or striped with white and light colored patches mixed with brown. Sometimes they look like a black and yellow ladybug. The biggest difference is in size. Both can live in mattresses and other bedding and are attracted to the carbon dioxide you exhale as.