A study of 50 houses in the raleigh north carolina area reported in the journal peer j found hundreds of species of arthropods living with unwitting homeowners.
Matt bertone carpet beetles.
These beetles have either solid or splotchy coloring of black white brown and yellow and are only 1 8 inch long.
Plenty of houses that were sprayed.
After living out their lives as larvae they prefer to travel.
In raleigh the homes surveyed were all free standing structures.
Matt bertone carpet beetle.
Bertone and his team performed visual inspections of each room in the houses and collected specimens using forceps aspirators and entomological nets.
In fact there are insects such as carpet beetles that are known to live within our cosy rugs.
Carpet beetle matt bertone north carolina state university there are three species of carpet beetles that look very similar.
Matt bertone the researchers have plans to expand their census of indoor bug life beyond the fairly limited north carolina sample.
Matt bertone indeed we can conclude that having a diversity of insects and other arthropods in our homes is the norm and there s not much we can do about it.
Adult carpet beetles dermestidae are small round insects that are covered in colorful scales.