Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

Eggs are pearly white in color and small.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye. The larvae are carrot shaped and long with a golden or brownish appearance. A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs. These small black bugs have short oval body and short inconspicuous antennae on their head.

Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in colour. Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house. Carpet beetles are covered in tiny hairs which are difficult to see unless you look at them under magnification. They can cause damage to natural cloth fibers or cereals.

Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs. 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. Slow moving tiny black beetles that crawl or fly around homes. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color.

Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background. They measure up to 0 1 3 mm in length.