Bed Bug Black And Brown Carpet Beetle

A flea has a reddish brown to black color.

Bed bug black and brown carpet beetle.

Female black carpet beetles can lay up to 100 eggs and their larvae can stay in the larval stage for up to 3 years. Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and tan or brownish. A carpet beetle is black brown. Differences between bed bugs and carpet beetles.

However the carpet beetle is the smallest of the two and averages 1 8th of an inch in length while the bed bug is about 1 4th of an inch long. A booklouse may vary in color ranging from gray to light to colorless. A mature bed bug has a copper brown color while nymphs are translucent white. Bed bugs are reddish brown flat and shaped like an apple seed.

Carpet beetles vary in color depending on type e g varied black furniture or common carpet beetles. Although not always a pure black color they are generally dark brown to black and may have lighter patterns on their elytra. A spider beetle is reddish brown. They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange.

The carpet beetle and bed bug not only leave similar looking bites but there are other similarities. Bed bugs and carpet beetles are both very small. What size is the bug. I could try to explain the difference between the 11 segments of their bodies and their antennae compared to the flat apple seed looking bodies of the bed bugs.