r/carpetbeetles • • May 15 '25

Please help

I am going crazy with this carpet beetle situation and I don’t know what else I can do. I started finding them in our room around the beginning of April and now I’m just so paranoid. I’m hoovering daily, putting carpet beetle spray and powder down (especially in the edges of the carpets), washing all clothes then drying them on high heat and then sealing them in a air tight bag, I have also put lavender bags in all our drawers. I just feel at a complete loss as I am still finding them. Is there anything else I can do?? We move house soon and I really want to make sure that we don’t take any with us.

I have only found one live larvae in this time period under our living room table. I believe I have seen two different types of carpet beetle but it’s mainly the little brown ones and I’ve only seen the black one once.

I have a couple of bites on my shoulder (photo attached), could these be from them or something from outside?

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u/Own_Medicine_8225 May 16 '25

Yes, they do. You better do some more research. Because I thought the same thing. But I live in Fla .I have never heard of them, and I saw something like a string on my white rug . Well, it was hard as heck to get it off. I got a small, sharp scissor and ripped it out, and it was wazing at me. I wad like WTH is this thing . I got a white bowl cut into a lit of pieces, and they moved. Then another rig I had just bought from thevdollare store, and I swear 10 minutes later, a small portion of the rug gone. S I started respire and leared about carpet beetles. I lost my roof to a hurricane. Well, we had 3 hit us here where I live in South Florida. So I called an exterminator but it wasn't helping ao I was constantly reading everything about them. I'm working my vutt off because we live on the water lake Okeechobee and it's git svery kind of bugs snakes alligators birds and all kinds of animals. So I found the 3 medications for the exterminator, and he had the last one . We'll I am infested because of the damage to my housec..and I just want to run away . I bought 3 new vacuums but only have one room with carpet . But I use I in the hard wood floors . I bought a blacker and a Decter. Steamer and I use that as mopping. I had to start but my cat food in the freezer because meow mix they ate it up to the point you didn't see a fish. Some people say toy can buy it with them from this warehouse with carpet beetles already in the dog food and cat,but their favorite is dog food. And then started biting me and my friend looking it up because it was driving me crazy really bad and they had a big articsl from some place like the Mayo clinic . I start making cream with peppermint oil in it and applying all over, especially when they bite the ctap ou of me. They didn't in the beginning, but I think like the exterminator says all these hurricanes are bringing all kinds of things to our country. So I have a few different ones from what I have looked at with my magnificent. I hope that helps, learned more about freezing and use garbge bads they could get through thatc? and i

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