Varied Carpet Beetle Identification, Life cycle, Eggs, Treatment
Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish taxonomist, initially identified the varied carpet beetle as a skin beetle in 1767. The adult varied carpet beetle is approximately 1/10 of an inch long, black, and has an uneven pattern of scales on its wing covers that are white, brown, and dark yellow. When the beetles get older, the scales that make this… Read More »
