Carpet beetles!! how to remove (picture)

craggs

I keep finding these little lady bird looking beetles on my walls,not loads but say 1-2 each night,,I had them last year only a few but they seemed to vanish when it got cold with winter,this last couple of weeks they are starting to show up again.

im sometimes finding the odd dead body on the window cills.ive vacumed round,checked for birds nests,,is there any kins of sprays,powder i can put down,any help please

ormus

mothballs are the standard old fashioned remedy.

craggs

mothballs,i will order a few packs of them,,im not overly keen on them but can live with the odd 1 or 2 like im finding but the mrs is another story.

so anyhting else i can buy/do to stop these little gits,,ive read they start of as larve,,ive looked all over and cant seem to find any of them:mad:

mikey72

We had an infestation of these.
Insecticide and steam cleaning killed them in the end.

mrs_baggins

if you get a powder from a diy place for crawling insects that will see them off. take out any fish or birds you may have though as its harmful to them. leave the powder for as long as you can prior to vacuuming. a few days is ideal. then when you have vacuumed make sure you empty the bag.

i am told they can enter house via an old birds nest but i am convinced mine started when i had my new carpet as there were a couple of dead ones in the roll.

craggs

thanks you all for your input,steam clean is going to be done this week,and im going to move everything out the bedroom again clean/hoover and,infact pull carpet up to se if i can see anything,tried this last time but couldnt find any!


Also the crawling powder stuff,id love to buy bottles of the stuff and put it down,however i do have fish,the tank is large and is a marine reef,which has been in place for many years and will be impossible to move.

is there anything that is fish safe??anything i can try,sorry i should of said in my first post,appologys..

found 2 live this morning,usual place one on the bedroom window cill,and one on the inside of the curtain lining,there just waiting for me to open the window.little gits!!

mrs_baggins

all i know is that fish are very suseptible (!) to the stuf either in spray or powder form so whatever you use ensure that your tank is covered by plastic or something i f you use them

craggs

thanks!,,did you get rid of yours?how long did you have them

i did some searching today and lifted up the sofas,,one of the sofas the black base cover had ripped away (think i did it fixing a foot 2 years ago but never put it back) anyway there was 3 adults just sayt in there on a piece of the foam stuff :eek:
i caught them,,and ripped out the foam,,the anoying this is ive never seen the larvae anywhere,not even last year..im going up in the loft tomorrow to see if i can see anything,but i think it will be a 'needle in a haystack' situation

Valli

personally I would try Wilkos ant killer. It's a clear liquid spray.

Reason i would recommend this is when I was using it to deal with an in-house ants nest it shifted the woodlice (and anything else that tried to cross it's path) too. Got rid of the ants in the end.

I would also have a window sticker (the kind that kills flies, Rentokill (I think) make them and Mr T sells them (as do other places but I find them more reliable even though I hate shopping there but anyway) in every affected room. Link to Amazon - they are really good, these...

Anyway I used that stuff with a cat in the house and toddlers.

re the mothballs - they won't KILL the insects (well not unless you lob the balls at the insects and hit them) it's the smell that deters the insects (naphthalene). You can get, from Betterwear (among other places) CEDAR WOOD balls - cedar deters insect, smells better (and is safer) than mothballs.

craggs

thanks for the post,ive just ordered a pack of 24 cedar balls,and will order the sticky window catchers.

Ive ordered also tonight 3xglue traps for bugs they are retakill also.

these things are driving me a bit mad now,just found another on the bedroom wall grrrr:mad:

ive heard boric acid can kill them,,or read more like,,ill pop to wilko tomorrow and get that stuff,,ill try anything to get rid of them.

i wonder if wilko do the steam cleaners for curtain etc.

craggs

completly turned my flat upside down today,every but inspected and cannot find any of the wooly bears grrr:mad:

nothing in the lft,had kitch kick panels of,there really isnt a lot of places to look in my shoebox.

its got to be the sofa as thats where i found adults now 5 of in the base,,but still no babys