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Are carpet beetles harmful to human health?

Carpet beetles round 2?

  • Hi no nasty answers please, I posted a question a long time ago bout my carpet beetle problem in my new house. Well now its coming into spring/summer I'm getting worried, Finding one or two adult beetles everyday in my house, mostly always in my bathroom. And now I know for sure there will be eggs and larvae! My house is really clean always cleaning up after myself and pets, I've replaced my front room carpet with wood and my stair carpet with synthetic carpet. But there seems to be more adults than ever before. I'm getting fed up as I dont have the time everyday to deep clean the house and to be quite honest its wearing me down to the point of crying, I also cannot afford any pest control and replacing my floors has bust my bank account due to this lovely recession and low pay. The question I have is now I have started spotting the first few larvae on my bathroom wall, how can I combat this problem now? Can they be coming from under the bathroom lino and will replacing my bathroom and kitchen floor eliminate some of the bugs?? Also, I have never seen a carpet beetle on any clothing at all. Always see them on the walls and floors, but never on my clothes and Ive never had any holes in them. I'm a bit confused? Also, my boyfriends mums ashes are in a room in the house in a box to be spread at some point, I tend to see the larvae congregating around this area alot. They can't eat through the plastoc bag the ashes are in can they?? Sorry for all the stupid questions, really am worn down now.

  • Answer:

    The beetles eat pet hair, food, wool, silks and leather.

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It will wear you down as it is not beatable without actually bringing in the pest control people. You can clean until you are blue in the face, you can move the furniture so they have no dark corners but they will without proper pest control always win. They move from the carpet into the soft furniture and up under the sofa and munch and breed and as you are finding they are slowly moving round the house and multiplying. They do not normally lurk under lino and an urn with ashes is a sealed container that they cannot access. They like fabric not plastic and other materials. On the wall is more than likely moth debris or something else. I cannot understand the wording but it would have been extremely unwise to replace the flooring without pest control and knowing you were clear before hand.

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