Major carpet beetle infestations with lots of beetles emerging all at once are usually traced to an animal carcass like a dead raccoon in a chimney or a dead squirrel in the attic.
Carpet beetles ceiling.
As stated above they may also be found in food products including milled products such as pastas cereals nuts etc.
Below a floor or in the ceiling or in an attic.
Carpet beetles are especially drawn to wool fur leather animal hair and feathers.
Most homeowners spot the larvae or beetles crawling along a surface somewhere.
Carpet beetles cause the most damage during this stage while finding natural fibers to eat which can include your clothes furniture and carpet.
Once mated the female carpet beetle avoids light and may move indoors to lay eggs in suitable dark areas.
Often times mistaken for some sort of ladybug because of their characteristic shape and sometimes spotted carapace carpet beetles are small about 1 8 th to 1 4 th of an inch long dome shaped insects with an appetite for fashion and furniture.
This is why the adult beetles are now climbing walls and heading for windows looking for a way to get outside to feed and mate.
If your beetles were infesting a carcass in a wall void or other space in most cases you would have smelled the decay.
Carpet beetles enter homes through doors windows and other openings although they may be brought in on cut plants and flowers as well.
Many of us have seen them but few people know what these miniscule insects are actually capable of.
They have also been found in spices and grains and could contaminate your entire pantry.