Bed bugs do bite to feed on your blood and give you red itchy welts.
Do carpet beetles go in mattresses.
Carpet beetles have scales prickly hairs and compound eyes.
To know where to focus the brunt of your cleaning first look for the primary source of the infestation which will be the area with the most signs of damage and beetles.
If carpet beetles are living in your bed it can be hard to tell if you have them or bed bugs.
Both can live in mattresses and other bedding and are attracted to the carbon dioxide you exhale as.
Varied carpet beetles similar to black carpet beetles but smaller in size than the previous.
The spare mattress seems like it might be a problem and carpet beetle larvae can definitely go after mattresses because many are stuffed with hair or feathers which the larvae eat but it s impossible for us to say.
Both adult carpet beetles and larvae can infest your home but the larvae do the most damage by eating organic materials like wool leather and silk.
Furniture carpet beetles this type resides on furniture and feed on hair padding and feathers.
Bed bugs do not but look similar to an apple seed with legs.
Also carpet beetles feed on fabric type substances and bed bugs feed on blood.
Contrary to popular belief carpet beetles do not just live in your carpet which means that you can have a problem with these pests even if you only have hardwood or tile floors.
Moreover the larvae seem to have expanded so finding ground zero as it were might be of limited use.