The Carpet Beetle Larvae

Their food preference includes all kinds of fabrics and dead insects.

The carpet beetle larvae.

It is primarily a scavenger. It lays eggs in 100 wool carpets and in garments stored in closets and attics where larvae can feed on materials for up to one year. They re covered with bristles and shed their skin as they grow. The adults are usually active during the daytime and are attracted to lights while larvae hide and are usually found close to their source of food.

Carpet beetles are more of a threat to your clothes. Carpet beetle larvae are the form of beetles that comes between the egg stage and the adult stage of their growth cycle. Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and tan or brownish. It often goes unnoticed behind furniture or along baseboards where it feeds on such things as accumulated lint pet hair food crumbs dead insects and other organic debris.

After mating near sources of light females can lay more than 100 eggs at a time which will hatch into larvae within seven to 35 days. The carpet beetle thrives on various materials such as fur woolen leather hair and other organic matter. Larvae are basically immature carpet beetles which have come out of their eggs and are now looking to feed. The varied carpet beetle larva is tear drop shaped and is covered with rows of light brown hairs.

Carpet beetle larvae will feed on animal and plant materials such as hair grains dead insects process foods fabric and furs.