Asian carpet beetle
Anthrenus coloratus
The Asian carpet beetle is a tiny, round beetle. It belongs to a family of beetles that are good at finding dry leftovers. Sometimes they turn up inside people's homes.
Lives in
Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, and brought to Ecuador
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Carpet beetle babies nibble dry things such as wool, fur and feathers. The grown-up beetles often visit flowers.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Asian carpet beetle about 0.5 km/h (0.31 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives on four continents: Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
2
People carried it by accident to Ecuador in South America, and it now lives there too.
3
Its family is called the skin beetles, because many of them eat dry animal leftovers like skin and fur.
you asked
Most asked questions about Asian carpet beetle
?Is the Asian carpet beetle dangerous?
No. It does not bite or sting.
?Where does the Asian carpet beetle live?
In Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and Ecuador, sometimes inside homes.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthrenus coloratus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Dermestidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Dermestidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Anthrenus coloratus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by NHM Beetles and Bugs. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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