The difference here is that bed bugs have a mouth made for piercing skin and sucking blood while carpet beetles have a mouth made for chewing on plants and other fibrous material.
Brown carpet beetle vs bed bug.
Oval horizontally flat prominent compound eyes four segmented antennae black carpet beetle.
Bed bugs are in the family cimicidae while carpet beetles are in the family dermestids.
Varied carpet beetles do have brown on their backs but they look more spotted or striped with white and light colored patches mixed with brown.
1 16 3 16 inch flea.
The good news is that this means carpet beetles don t bite humans.
Oval tapered hairy.
1 25 1 13 inch spider beetle.
That basically means that they look very different from one another.
The main difference is the color.
An important detail when understanding the difference.
The carpet beetle larvae has white and yellow brown scales and tufts of hair on the back of their abdomen while the adult bed bugs are a reddish brown color and oval shaped much like that of an apple seed.
Bed bug larvae look like little worms while carpet beetle larvae look like fuzzy bugs with little spines all over them.
Dark protruding eyes and wing like structures on either side of the head.
1 8 inch what shape is it.
Last but not least on our list of bugs that look like bed bugs booklice look a lot like bed bug nymphs.
Black to reddish brown what size is it.
Reddish brown flattened and oval in shape.
Immature bed bugs are similar to adult about the size of a poppy seed and yellowish white in color.
Bed bugs measure of an inch long.
The second difference and the biggest nuisance is the fact that bed bugs feed on human blood while carpet beetles feed on animal fibers.
Bed bugs bite but carpet beetles eat natural fibers like wool blankets.
The first notable difference is that of size as bed bugs are twice as big as carpet beetles.
Just like bed bugs.
Carpet beetles on the other hand are in the family of dermestids.
3 16 inch black carpet beetle.
Carpet beetles on the other hand measure between 1 16 of an inch and 1 8 of an inch long.
1 carpet beetles are attracted to you when you are sleeping because of the co 2 gas you exhale 2 carpet beetles are very shy so they are hard to find and 3 carpet beetles also usually come out in the wee hours of the morning.
One big difference between bed bugs and carpet beetles that can help you determine which pest you re dealing with is that bed bugs go through an incomplete metamorphosis while carpet beetles go through a complete metamorphosis.
Their colors range from translucent white to gray or brown.
Small in size they do not feed on blood but on fungi pollen mold etc.
Bed bugs are in the family of the cimicidae.
1 8 1 16 inch book louse.
