Bed Bug Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

Differences between bed bugs and carpet beetles.

Bed bug black and brown carpet beetle.

A flea has a reddish brown to black color. Bed bugs are reddish brown flat and shaped like an apple seed. Bed bugs and carpet beetles are both very small. Female black carpet beetles can lay up to 100 eggs and their larvae can stay in the larval stage for up to 3 years.

Like most beetles black carpet beetles have wings and they can fly. Carpet beetles vary in color depending on type e g varied black furniture or common carpet beetles. The carpet beetle and bed bug not only leave similar looking bites but there are other similarities. The 3 most important carpet beetle types are black varied and furniture.

Sometimes they look like a black and yellow ladybug. Although not always a pure black color they are generally dark brown to black and may have lighter patterns on their elytra. A spider beetle is reddish brown. A booklouse may vary in color ranging from gray to light to colorless.

They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange. However the carpet beetle is the smallest of the two and averages 1 8th of an inch in length while the bed bug is about 1 4th of an inch long. A mature bed bug has a copper brown color while nymphs are translucent white. Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and tan or brownish.