Home pest control services are often needed to ensure proper identification of the type of insect you are dealing with and the manner in which to treat the home.Īmerican Pest has been in business since 1925 and stands ready to serve you with their state of the art pest management skills. Not Sure If You Have Bed Bugs Or Carpet Beetles? They often build heavy populations throughout. Some occur in sawdust left in wall voids after construction. When new homes are built, moist uncured lumber and/or freshly plastered or papered walls that become covered with molds attract these beetles. Also known as the two spot carpet beetle, the fur beetle is an important pest damaging stored products such as furs, skins, textiles, grain and entomological. Carpet beetles can live in homes, warehouses, museums, outdoors and other places where their food sources exist. Fungus beetles is a general term covering several different beetles associated with damp, humid conditions where fungi, molds, and mildew occur.
Their hiding places include bed clothing, mattress ribbing, carpet around the bed, behind the headboard, inside dressers, behind baseboards and wall coverings.īed bugs typically stay anywhere humans and animals live. They hide during the day and do their biting and feeding at night. The carpet beetle larvae has white and yellow-brown scales and tufts of hair on the back of their abdomen while the adult bed bugs are a reddish brown color and oval shaped, much like that of an apple seed.Īdditionally, a behavioral difference is that bed bugs feed on blood while carpet beetles feed on material type substances like carpet, woolen fabric, and other materials as well as types of stored up food.īed bugs have small, flat bodies making it possible for them to fit into tiny spaces about the width of a credit card. However, the carpet beetle is the smallest of the two and averages 1/8th of an inch in length while the bed bug is about 1/4th of an inch long.ĭifferences Between Bed Bugs And Carpet Beetlesĭon’t worry though! There are in fact physical differences between them that will help identify which pest has moved into your home. Bed bugs and carpet beetles are both very small. The carpet beetle and bed bug not only leave similar looking bites but there are other similarities. Depending on the species, a female grain beetle may lay between 40 and 300 eggs each year. The eggs are difficult to see with the naked eye. All species of grain beetles lay eggs individually or in batches deposited in or around a ready food supply.
Biscuit beetle vs. brown carpet beetle vs. fungus beetle skin#
The first step toward eradicating common household bugs is properly identifying which pest has invaded your home.įor example, many people have mistakenly assumed they have carpet beetles when in fact they have an infestation of bed bugs.īoth of these pests can leave you with similar looking itchy, red blotches.īed bugs actually create red, itchy welts on the skin from biting you while the carpet beetle doesn’t bite at all but causes a similar red itchy welt due to an allergic reaction from the prickly little hairs on the carpet beetle larvae (pictured center). The life cycle of the grain beetles consists of the egg, larval, pupal, and adult stages.
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