Tiny Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

A fully grown adult black carpet beetle appears to be shiny reddish black in color with brown colored legs.

Tiny black and brown carpet beetle.

Some are black or dark enough to appear black when observed with the human eye. Most adult carpet beetles range from 2 mm to 5 mm in length with very short clubbed antennae and chewing mouthparts. Slow moving tiny black beetles that crawl or fly around homes. They can cause damage to natural cloth fibers or cereals.

Adult carpet beetles feed on flower pollen and do not damage woolens and other fabrics. Others might be mottled with spots of brown and black on a lighter background. Carpet beetles in general are oval in shape and appear dark brown to black in colour. Carpet beetles are tiny black beetles that can be found in the house.

The adults are small 1 16 to 1 8 inch oval shaped beetles ranging in color from black to various mottled patterns of white brown yellow and orange. The furniture and varied carpet beetles also bear unique coloured scales specific to the type. Carpet beetles measure just 1 16 to 1 8 inches long about the size of a pinhead and vary in color. Like many other beetles they are round or oval and convex like ladybugs.

These small black bugs have short oval body and short inconspicuous antennae on their head. They vary in size from 1 8 th to 3 16 th of an inch in length. They measure up to 0 1 3 mm in length.