Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowseInfoImagesLinksBooksData
Photo#353267
carpet beetle life - Anthrenus verbasci

carpet beetle life - Anthrenus verbasci
San Leandro, Alameda County, California, USA
September 1, 2006
The top photo was taken on September 1, 2006, when I found this larva walking up a wall in my house. The bottom photo was taken on September 10, 2006, after 10 days of feeding the larva mosquitoes (which I also caught in my house and killed for the larva).

I tried some other dead insects over the next few months, including other flies, but the larva seemed to like mosquitoes the most.

Images of this individual: tag all
carpet beetle life - Anthrenus verbasci carpet beetle life - Anthrenus verbasci carpet beetle life - Anthrenus verbasci