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Carpet Beetle larva - Anthrenus fuscus

Carpet Beetle larva - Anthrenus fuscus
Boxborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 29, 2006
Size: 2mm
This is what the larva turned into. Unfortunately by the time I checked up on it, it was dead.

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Moved
Moved from Anthrenus flavipes.

not flavipes
. . . but, because of colour pattern, size and elongate antennal club, a male of A.fuscus, compare:

 
Anthrenus fuscus
That's a good correction. Thanks for catching it Boris!

Moved
Moved from Anthrenus.

Dermestidae: Anthrenus sp.
An Anthrenus. Major source of food is the dead insects in window sills.

I'll probably kill some tomorrow
when I vacuum my room ;-)

 
Vacuum?
what's that? Maybe that's why I find these beetles. :-)

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