
	Description


	Size
	Total length: ⅛″ to 3 ⁄16″

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	Habitat
	Nests of birds, rodents, ants, and bees; human houses; and businesses, including grain elevators and museums.


	Biology
	Season
	Year round

	Behavior


	Life Cycle


	Larva Food
	Any animal products, cereal products.

	Adult Food
	Any animal products; cereal products; and when outdoors, plant pollen.


	Taxonomy
	Order	Coleoptera (beetles)
	Suborder	Polyphaga (water, rove, scarab, long-horned, leaf, and snout beetles)
	Infraorder	Bostrichiformia
	Superfamily	Bostrichoidea
	Family	Dermestidae (skin and larder beetles)
	Subfamily	Anthreninae
	Tribe	Attagenini
	Genus	Attagenus

	Subordinate Taxa
	black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor japonicus) black carpet beetle (Attagenus unicolor unicolor)

	Synonyms


	Common Names
	black carpet beetle


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	Bill Reynolds

	I believe this larva to be a Black Carpet Beetle Larva. I am find them in my vacate bee hives.





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Bill Reynolds 7/29/2016	Location: Nemedal Township, Pennington Co., Minnesota I believe this larva to be a Black Carpet Beetle Larva. I am find them in my vacate bee hives.



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