A nasty shock awaited this customer on moving their sofa a carpet destroyed by carpet moths.
Woolly bears carpet beetles.
The larvae known as woolly bears of these small oval beetles have outstripped the clothes moths as the major british textile pest.
These are mostly brown with white or yellow markings and are covered in short bristly hairs hence their well known woolly bear moniker.
The variegated carpet beetle is 2 to 4mm long like a small mottled brown grey and cream ladybird.
As is so often the case it is the larva that does all the damage.
They have an elongated body which is covered in hair or large setae.
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The larvae of carpet beetles are referred to as woolly bears.
In the uk carpet beetles and clothes moths are the biggest threat to our textiles.
The related fur beetle is black with one spot on each wing case and there is a rarer black carpet beetle.
There are eleven of them with a combination of three segments.
Carpet beetles consists of antennae that are segmented.
Carpet beetles are oval shaped and difficult to spot as they are only 2 to 4mm long.
Carpet beetles and wooly bears all categories clothes and carpet moths.
Carpet moth treatment suffolk.
It is not actually the moths which cause the damage but instead their larvae which feed on wool and natural fibres.
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