Furniture Carpet Beetle
Furniture Carpet Beetle General Description Adults are small, rounded, and blackish, with a mottling of yellow and white scales on the back and a heavy coating of yellow scales on the femur of the legs. The color…
Black Carpet Beetle
Black Carpet Beetle General Description · Adults are shiny black with brownish legs and 0.3 to 0.5 cm in length. Credit: Caroline Harding, PaDIL · Larvae are tiny when they hatch. · Larvae have distinctive elongated carrot- or cigar-shaped bodies and long, brushy tail bristles. · Larvae body color varies from a light brown to almost black. …
Common Carpet Beetle
Common Carpet Beetle General Description · Adults of this carpet beetle are small, rounded, and gray to blackish in color with white and orange scales on the back. · Orange-red band of scales are found on the middle of the back surface. Credit: Natasha Wright,bugwood.org. · The larva is an elongated, oval shape and is rarely more…
Carpet Moth
Carpet Moth General Description The adult wingspread is greater than that of either the webbing or casemaking clothes…
Casemaking Clothes Moth
Casemaking Clothes Moth General Description This moth is browner in color than the webbing clothes moth and has three dark spots on the wings, which help to identify it. Adults vary in size as compared to the webbing clothes moth, depending on the larval diet. No…
Webbing Clothes Moth
Webbing Clothes Moth General Description The body and wings of the adult are uniformly buff in color, and its head has lightly reddish hairs on top. The wings are silvery brown to golden tan in color, without spots, and measure less than 0.7 cm across when extended. Adult males are capable of flying, but seldom do so. Females are not…
Fabric Insects
Fabric-destroying insects cause losses in commercial fabric and garment manufacturing or storage operations. Materials that are readily infested are wool carpet, sweaters, coats, upholstery, rugs, blankets, furs, hair, leather, feathers, horns, insect and animal collections, dead rodent carcasses (hair, nails), and stored foods (meat, fish, meal, and dried milk products). dead rodent carcass (hair, nails) Insect pests of fabrics are…