Banded black carpet beetle
The banded black carpet beetle is a small dark beetle that likes to live near people. It has travelled almost all over the warm parts of the world. One of its nicknames is the wardrobe beetle, because it may sneak into cupboards.
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Fun facts
It lives in so many countries that scientists call it nearly cosmopolitan, which means found almost everywhere.
It has three names: banded black carpet beetle, tobacco seed beetle and wardrobe beetle.
It belongs to the carpet beetle family, small beetles whose larvae clean up dry leftovers.
Most asked questions about Banded black carpet beetle
?Is the banded black carpet beetle dangerous?
No. It cannot bite or sting people, but its larvae can damage woolly things.
?Where does the banded black carpet beetle live?
In warm places almost all over the world, often in and around houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Attagenus fasciatus
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Dermestidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Dermestidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Australia and Oceania, Asia, Africa, South America
- Also known as
- Tobacco seed beetle, Wardrobe beetle
Where the facts come from
- Attagenus fasciatus (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 Caroline Harding, MAF. CC BY 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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