Varied carpet beetle lavae

snowdog · 18 Sep 2010 at 02:23

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/images/Dermestid/varied_carpetbeetle_larva1.jpg

I seem to have an infestation of these in my bedroom, but I've also seen them in my bathroom, basically I see these disgusting bugger crawling on my wall once in a while, and around my bed, but I often find them on my walls quite high up. They oddly seem to come out from wherever they usually hang when I play music very loudly.

I once had a clock ( a normall wall clock) which was filled with dead larvae inside, but back then I never knew where these ******** came from or what the hell they were. A couple of years later I noticed LOTS of these dead buggers onder my couch, attacked the whole bottom of the couch with my hoover and then threw the couch away... Can't live with the fact bugs lived in it. Recently more started appearing again on my walls and after googling I finally identified the pests and when I moved my bed I could find a couple of them chilling there and attacked them with an air refreshener and an all purpose cleaner.

Is there some good insecticide that I can spray onto every single wall corner of my room that takes care of them ? Hoovering once in a while doesn't really get rid of them and I just want to eradicate them buggers in an aggressive way so chemicals are the way forward imo so they bugger off from my room for at least a year or longer, anyone effectively took care of them pricks ?

ShaolinDreams · 18 Sep 2010 at 02:29

Napalm and if that fails go nuclear.

Tom0 · 18 Sep 2010 at 02:30

There is powder you can get to put down over your carpets and furniture, leave it for a few hours and then hoover up...

I know you can get it for fleas and the like, must work on (or can get one for) beetles.

Could put it on, go to work and hoover it all up when you get home, bit of a bugger I know but it's worth a go?

snowdog · 18 Sep 2010 at 02:34

Oddly though, I've NEVER found them on my furniture and I don't have any carpets in my room, I'm not 100% sure what they are it but they certainly look exactly like in the pic of the OP. I can only find them on walls, and on the floor ( vinyl ) in dark area's. They seem to disappear and come back randomly. But I've noticed them fleeing up the walls ( sometimes only inches from the ceiling) when I play music very loudly and I can find them hiding under dark area's like under my couch ( now thrown away) and bed.

The hairy sight of them disgusts me and I can't remember how many but I'm sure I've picked up and killed more than 100 of them with toilet paper over the past couple of years.

I just want to spray every single corner/wall ( where the wall meets with the floor) of my room with some aggressive insecticide to kill all those invaders, but I don't know which insecticide to go for and where from...

agnes · 18 Sep 2010 at 02:38

We had something like that last year...

Honestly, a hoover on it's own won't work.

Go to a pet store and tell them which bug it is and ask for a carpet/wall cleaner. We got a foam one so it could be used to 'wash' surfaces and also placed on the carpet as it wasn't overly wet. We coated the carpet's in it and left for half a day as we went out (also leaving some smoke bombs going), came back, hoovered the carpets to take off the foam, cleaned off all walls and surfaces and finally aired out the house for the remainder of the day.

It is not due to living conditions or how often you clean, as we hoover at least once every 3 days. It's just the area conditions. We are mid way down a hill so a lot of damp builds up outside... Not good.

But as I said, ask in a pet store, get the right stuff and by Monday, you will be free

Lastly, the second day, we did a second hoover, only leaving the foam stuff on for 30 mins, followed by a 3rd hoover after laying down that nice smelling carpet powder stuff.

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