r/carpetbeetles

Do I need to panic about a few larvae?

I've been researching frantically and it all just seems to deteriorate my mental health further. I thought making a post might help me more.

Two weeks ago I found some carpet beetle larvae on my bed (at first I mistook them for lint) and I vacuumed under my mattress where I found about 15 cuddled up in some dust. I put all the bedding in the washing machine at 90 degrees celsius.

Two days later I saw 2 others under my mattress and deep cleaned everything in and around the bed including nightstands. I cleaned with vinegar and put drops of lavender oil since lavender reppelles them. This exhausted me immensely and I chose to stop checking because I cut out their food source and the rest if any should die due to lack of food.

Today my dad called me and told me I should keep checking and despite my pact with myself I checked and found 2 very tiny not moving and 2 very tiny still moving.

I have never seen adults, the first time I saw them was right after I got back home after being away for a week, I'm struggling with mental health issues and I know that I can either let the panic torture me or pretend it doesn't exist.

Can somebody tell me how bad is this? Should I frantically deep clean my apartment again or can I go to sleep peacefully?

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u/iamnotentirelyhere — 12 hours ago

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Is this a beetle or cockroach?

Found this on TV unit in NY

u/Sad_Young_2369 — 1 day ago

possible reaction?

Ive been getting itchy tiny bumps spread across my body. They aren't in clusters, the most is like 2 in one spot. there are no signs at all of bed bugs, I looked extensively at my mattress and around my bed, under it. Though I did find carpet beetle larvae. Could this be what is causing the bites or is bed bugs still maybe whats causing it? Sorry for the bad photos and dust.

u/New_Access8575 — 1 day ago

Tiny white things in carpet that crush to powder when pressed

I need help identifying what they are

u/Delicious_Judgment17 — 2 days ago

Advice on what to do after seeing adult beetles in new apartment

We’re moving into a new place and this week we’ve seen four adults, one the other day in the bedroom by the window that was open for ventilation and just yesterday another three in a different room: one by the window, another one by the socket/outlet and another one in a planter that had a plant that had dried out.

No larvae yet that we’ve seen.

Should we be worried and consider it an infestation? Or that number isn’t hight enough to trigger our alarms? Could they have come in through the windows or were they in the apartment beforehand?

Since we’re between places, I’m very worried we might have brought them with us to our previous home during one of our trips to get stuff. How easy is it for them to hitch a ride on clothes or bags? Any steps we should be taking to protect our previous home?

We’re based in Spain.

It’s the first time we’re dealing with something like this and we’re scared…any help and advice would be very welcome, thanks in advance.

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u/Keishial — 1 day ago

Is this a carpet beetle larvae

I can’t say I’m very familiar with bugs. Found this on a pillow in my bedroom… is this carpet beetle larva? Freaked me out now I’m going to have to clean my entire room and try to see where it came from.

u/djl357 — 1 day ago

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I keep finding beetles in my bedroom. What are they and how to get rid of them?

I have found many of type 1 around my bedroom, usually on my bed over the span of a few months. Recently I found type 2 which is bigger and slightly different in shape. Is it a fully grown version? It's been irritating for ages. Please help me, what are they and how do I get rid of them?!?

u/Road-To-Redemption — 2 days ago

I know its a bad pic but is this a carpet beetle? Tx

u/Dry-Kaleidoscope8262 — 2 days ago

is this a carpet beetle?

found in airbnb crawling on my jacket. squished it when i killed it and those two little brown things came off. just hope it's not bed bugs...

u/missminutes1975 — 2 days ago

Is this a dead larvae?

I have had a lot of bumps on my skin lately (been almost a week since ive gotten new ones however) and i am now realizing that the problem may have been carpet beetle larvae. Bumps started appearing after sleeping with a duvet cover that had been stored in a box for a longg time. So my bed has wooden slats but i keep two sheets on top of it for extra support. After lifting the sheets i found a dead carpet beetle and something that i now think is a larvae. Am i right?

Location Belgium

u/PessimisticSunshine — 2 days ago

Carpet beetle help

About 2–2.5 weeks ago, I discovered carpet beetle larvae and shed larval skins inside the storage compartment under my bed. There was a wool duvet belonging to my landlord, along with some other belongings stored there. I had previously put these items into bags, but larvae had apparently started coming out of them.

As soon as I noticed this, I threw away all of the items and everything that was stored there. I vacuumed the entire area thoroughly and then treated it with an insecticide containing 2.5% deltamethrin. For the following week, I vacuumed five days out of seven and did not put any bed sheets on the bed for a while.

After that, I started using bed sheets again. I changed them twice a week and continued vacuuming thoroughly every two or three days.

About 2.5 weeks later, I opened the storage compartment under the bed again just to check it. I’m not completely sure, but I think I found another carpet beetle larva and possibly another shed larval skin. I treated the area with insecticide again and also applied a powder insecticide called Neopitroid to the areas I could reach.

Today, I found something between my mattress and the headboard. I’m not completely sure what it is, but I think it may also be related to carpet beetle larvae.

I have never seen an adult carpet beetle. So far, I have only found larvae and what appear to be shed larval skins.

At this point, I really don’t know what else I can do. I feel like I have done everything I possibly can, but I don’t understand why I am still finding signs of them after 2.5 weeks. Do you have any suggestions about what I should do next?

u/No_Cup5875 — 3 days ago

Ist das eine Teppichkäfer Larve????

u/CocoLo_ — 3 days ago

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Can this help?

u/Particular_Name2484 — 4 days ago

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Is this a bed bug?

u/HaHoHe_1892 — 4 days ago

Is this a carpet beetle? Found in bedroom, central europe.

Hi! Are these carpet beetles? I attached as many pictures as I had just in case, I did my best to take close up pictures. I usually find them on the outside wall of my closet (it's a mirror) or on the wall next to the closet in my bedroom. I saw these quite often last year but nearly not at all during the winter. Now they've started appearing again, but not as much as last summer. My question is, are these carpet beetles or something else?

I also find these bugs quite often in the pantry (on the shelves and in dry ingredients like cereal) and last year when I had a lot of them, even in the bathroom! To be honest, there are more of them in my pantry than my bedroom, but when they're in my bedroom they always appear near my closet, which has me worried. I only found one larva last year, it was in my 100% acrylic sweater that I left out in the hallway. Since then I haven't noticed any signs of carpet beetles in my closet at all. No larvae, nothing. I vacuum and wash my closet quite often so I can't imagine where they're all hiding and coming from.

If they are indeed carpet beetles, what next steps can I take? Throw all my clothes in the washing machine bit by bit and hope for the best?

Location: central europe

u/Ancient-Weather1402 — 4 days ago

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Is this a carpet beetle? (Pls, bug people, help)

I recently moved, and as I was moving, I found carpet beetle larvae. As I transitioned to the new place, I deep cleaned everything. Just now underneath my old mattress I found this little dude I am terrified that I didn’t do a good enough job and possibly brought one along with me.

….please, bug people, what is this thing? Is it a carpet beetle?

P.s. sorry my phone camera sucks… it’s smaller than it looks on the first pic too - the paper towel was much closer than my thumb

u/Meat_Ball_Surprise — 6 days ago

Carpet beetles

Found two of these, the first photo I found next to my bed a couple weeks ago, second I found yesterday after I vacuumed. Do I have an infestation? How do I know?

u/Status_Result6697 — 5 days ago

Carpet Beetle Heat Treatment

I have been battling carpet beetles for over 15 years. They follow me everywhere I go and create holes in my clothes. I have done 4 heat treatments with exterminators but they have all failed because the exterminators lack familiarity with carpet beetles (they all specialize in bed bugs which love heat). So I am moving again, and doing a heat treatment, where I will do it. I bought a commercial grade bed bug heater and will turn a bedroom into a heat chamber and heat anything going into my new house in this room. Do you know exactly what temperature and what duration I need to heat? My plan is to heat a room for 125 F for 8-10 hours. I think the tricky thing is eggs because they take longer to kill. I have spoke to exterminators that recommend hitting 130F. If I do, do you know how long I would need to keep it at this temperature for all life cycles (especially the eggs) to die?

Also, do you know if carpet beetles like entering electronic devices? Any tips on how to kill carpet beetles inside electronics? I was thinking of putting my sensitive electronics, like laptop and iPads inside a plastic bag and putting Gentrol Point Source inside so that the released fumes will prohibit larvae from developing. Does this sound feasible?

I will be doing this next week, so appreciate if you could weigh in. Thanks

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u/Gloomy_Increase8628 — 5 days ago