- Know Your Pests
- Varied Carpet Beetle (Also see Black Carpet Beetle)
Varied Carpet Beetle (Also see Black Carpet Beetle)
Confused Flour Beetle (Also see Rust-Red Flour Beetle)
Granary Weevil (Also see Rice Weevil)
Mediterranean Flour Moth or Mill Moth
Red-legged Ham or Copra Beetle
Rice Weevil (Also see Granary Weevil)
Rust-Red Flour Beetle (Also see Confused Flour Beetle)
Tropical Warehouse or Almond Moth (Also see Warehouse, Tobacco or Cocoa Moth)
Warehouse, Tobacco or Cocoa Moth (Also see Tropical Warehouse or Almond Moth)
Appearance
Adult : small, oval, yellow/black/whitish dense scales; larvae : brown, hairy with spiky appearance (A. verbasci), Larvae 4-5mm; Adult 1.5-4mm. Reddish-brown
Life Cycle
A. verbasci : Eggs (20-100) laid on feeding material; Adult life span 7-40 days. Attagenus : Eggs (50-100); Life span from egg to adult 6months-3years.
Notes
A. verbasci is the most common beetle found on carpets. Attagenus is found infesting carpets, stored woollens, skins, silks, furs and materials with high protein content such as insect and animal specimens in museums and even carbohydrates such as grains, cereal products, flour, semolina, bran and sugar.
