Black Carpet Beetles In Bed

The main difference is the color.

Black carpet beetles in bed.

Also carpet beetles feed on fabric type substances and bed bugs feed on blood. If carpet beetles are living in your bed it can be hard to tell if you have them or bed bugs. You ve noticed that carpet beetles length varies a lot while bed bugs are always the same length. Bed bugs are reddish brown flat and shaped like an apple seed.

The carpet beetle and bed bug not only leave similar looking bites but there are other similarities. That s because bed bugs always look the same but there are a lot of carpet beetle. They have short antennae and round bodies and might also have irregular brown orange and white scales or be solid brown or. Bed bugs measure of an inch long.

Carpet beetles vary in color depending on type e g varied black furniture or common carpet beetles. Bed bugs and carpet beetles are both very small. The biggest difference is in size. Both the bed bug and the carpet beetle are problematic.

Bed bug larvae look like little worms while carpet beetle larvae look like fuzzy bugs with little spines all over them. Varied carpet beetles do have brown on their backs but they look more spotted or striped with white and light colored patches mixed with brown. Sometimes they look like a black and yellow ladybug. Carpet beetles on the other hand measure between 1 16 of an inch and 1 8 of an inch long.