Bagging heavily infested items before disposal can help prevent further spread of the beetles.
Carpet beetle skin shed.
The adults are 1 16 to 1 8 inch long and oval shaped.
An infestation can be identified through discovery of damage to fabrics shed skin as well as visible larval movement.
Look for shed skins on the underside of rugs in folds or hidden areas on clothing or wool blankets or under furniture or in corners where lint pet hair and dead insects collect.
Shed molted skins of carpet beetles associated with mice nesting in an attic.
They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange.
Marcia is the bed bug and vector management specialist for the pesticides program in edison.
In a heavy carpet beetle infestation you should find many shed skins in areas where the larvae are feeding.
Dry cleaning is suggested as carpet beetle larvae thrive on stained clothing.
Silk threads mixed in means clothes moths instead.
Carpet beetle larvae molt or shed their skins several times as they grow.
Harder to find skins when there is random damage to hanging clothes.
Once found infested items and susceptible articles nearby should be laundered dry cleaned or discarded.
Because carpet beetle larvae feed on lint dust and animal hairs strict housekeeping procedures may help to keep an infestation at bay.
Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and.