Bertone and his team performed visual inspections of each room in the houses and collected specimens using forceps aspirators and entomological nets.
Matt bertone carpet beetles.
Adult carpet beetles dermestidae are small round insects that are covered in colorful scales.
Freeloaders come in all sizes.
In fact there are insects such as carpet beetles that are known to live within our cosy rugs.
In raleigh the homes surveyed were all free standing structures.
After living out their lives as larvae they prefer to travel.
Matt bertone carpet beetle.
Carpet beetles are among our tiniest roommates matt bertone north carolina state university on comparing floors covered in carpet to bare floors the researchers found carpeted rooms to contain more bugs.
A study of 50 houses in the raleigh north carolina area reported in the journal peer j found hundreds of species of arthropods living with unwitting homeowners.
Matt bertone indeed we can conclude that having a diversity of insects and other arthropods in our homes is the norm and there s not much we can do about it.
Matt bertone the researchers have plans to expand their census of indoor bug life beyond the fairly limited north carolina sample.
Carpet beetle matt bertone north carolina state university there are three species of carpet beetles that look very similar.