Spring is the time of year carpet beetles beeline for your home.
Carpet beetles and fleas.
Carpet beetles are known to be home pests inhabiting carpets furniture leather products and furniture.
While spring brings welcome rain and flowers blooming it also brings insects.
Vacuuming can remove most of the beetles and larvae but is not sufficient on its own.
Wool moths tineola bisselliella and carpet beetles the common clothes moth tineola bisselliella.
Since dust bunnies cobwebs dead insects and tufts of shed pet fur are an open invitation to larvae get busy with the duster.
The common variegated carpet beetle is recognisable by its oval shaped grey brown and cream mottled body.
Carpet beetle larvae feed on dead insects carpets woolen fabrics and other fibrous material.
Start by vacuuming the carpet thoroughly use a fine nozzle to hoover all around the edge of the carpet where it meets the skirting board as this is where the adult beetles like to lay their eggs.
Fleas are most likely to inhabit carpets and rugs in the room.
The good news is that i am licensed to use pesticides to eradicate the common types of household textile bugs and fleas.