Carpet beetles look more striped with a white and brown color palette.
Carpet beetle or bed bug.
Bed bug scientific name the scientific name of the bed bug is cimex lectularius.
Bed bugs eat human blood and carpet beetle larvae feed on wool and animal based materials.
Both insects can breed fast and may remain hidden for a while before you start to notice them.
They look much different from bed bugs.
You will notice the difference in color.
Carpet beetles are not bed bugs.
Both pests can be worrisome and may create stress.
Carpet beetles are usually quite small but can grow to nearly ladybug size.
For those of you who are a little bit more impatient i ll say that there are 5 main differences between carpet beetles and bed bugs.
Carpet beetles are also the same as small caterpillars rather than little worms.
After a larval stage they can be found in carpeting along trim in your windowsills your bedding and just about anywhere.
However carpet beetles can damage fabrics and bed bugs can bite people.
The good news is that this means carpet beetles don t bite humans.
In the pacific northwest they have a black and yellow color pattern but black and blue is common as well.
The scientific name of the beetle is coleoptera and the scientific name of the carpet beetle is anthrenus verbasci.
Adult bed bug carpet beetles.
The carpet beetle looks like a bed bug when they are small but as they grow.
Life cycle the lifecycle of a carpet beetle all the species of carpet beetle have to undergo the metamorphosis process of egg larva pupa and adult.