Clean carpet beetle prone areas frequently.
Carpet beetle yellow spots.
Additionally orange and red scales run down the midline of the beetles.
You can tell the beetles apart because the striped cucumber beetle has a black abdomen.
Vacuuming carpeting and washing your clothes and other fabrics frequently at least once every 2 or so weeks is the best way to prevent a carpet beetle infestation.
Food and sweat stains on fabrics can attract carpet beetles.
This little beetle is a serious crop pest and is similar in its look to the western corn rootworm beetle diabrotica virgifera.
It is visible to the human eye at 1 8 3 16 inch in length.
Treat spills and stains immediately as well.
White and yellow scales cover the thorax and body in distinct patterns on furniture carpet beetles.
The varied carpet beetle adult is black with an irregular pattern of brown white and dark yellow scales on its elytra wing covers.
They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange.
As you can guess from its name the striped markings help to identify this beetle.
The adults are 1 16 to 1 8 inch long and oval shaped.
Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics.
Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and.
They look like small miniature ladybird beetles lady bugs but with a black shell and yellow spots.