Carpet Beetles

What are Carpet Beetles?

Three common species: varied, common, and furniture. Adults look like tiny mottled ladybugs. Larvae are the ones that eat fabric — bristly and carrot-shaped.

Are they dangerous?

They do not bite in a medical sense. They wreck wool, silk, feathers, and sometimes pantry goods. People mix them with bed bugs. Get the ID right.

What causes them?

They ride in on flowers, then larvae find wool, pet hair, and lint in vents and under furniture.

Signs in the house

Adults on windowsills. Shed larval skins in a closet. Holes in wool.

In Middle Tennessee

Closets and unused rooms in Spring Hill, Columbia, Santa Fe, and Franklin.

What Death Row does

Vacuum lint and wool, treat cracks, and confirm it is not bed bugs. Call or text 931-500-6969.

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