Hi, I was trying to find answers to a problem and found this site.
Could you please answer a question for me? Anyone?
I started noticing all these little bugs in my room a few weeks ago.
I had never seen anything like them, and started seeing more and more of them!
I freaked! Thats how I found this site. I typed in bugs and found the name of them.
I bugged bombed my room, and didn't see any for a week the they came back
really bad!. I see them in my carpet, and notice they were really bad in the
closet. They were on my bed!
I tryed looking them up and they look like what they call a dermestid beetle?
They eat skulls
from dead animals it said?
Are they harmful to people? (Live people) I worry because they were on my bed
what if they got in my ears at night or something? I wont sleep in my room any
more & more bug bombing is not working?
I am getting ready to take out my carpet because I see alot of them in it.
They are all over, the wall, the desk, the curtains!
My husband is a big hunter and had a bear skin rug stuffed this year which has
the head on it .
He also has alot of those deer horns he saves, but they are not in this room.
The bear rug is downstairs on a wall.
I also have a deck off from my room and where I noticed them so bad was in a closet where I keep
bird seed for my feeders. Do you think they might have came from there?
I know you must think I'm nuts, But I worry if those bugs are harmful to
humans.
& how in the world can I get rid of them?
Please let me know. or direct me to someone that can help.
Thanks so much
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Your not nuts but sound a little upset. Have you ever watched the Amityville Horror, lol. Chances are if they are in that room they are all over the house. Possibly even in your husbands bear rug. If those antlers are not cleaned good they will get those real easy. I know some hunters that just cut off the top of the deers head, clean out the brains, and dry the rest out. Then they keep them in the same rooms as their professionally mounted trophies. That will cause some major bug infestation problems.
Go to the orange search button and do a search now that you know what they are called. They are difficult to get rid of and you have to find the source of the infestation. You will probably have to do this numerous times because they lay eggs and you get new batches show up as they hatch. These are more prevelant in the south from what I understand but we get them up north here also. I had a duck in my garage that was mounted by a wholesale bird guy from OHIO and one day the wing was laying on the floor. Guess who had come to call? That mount dissappeared real fast and the whole garage got a good blast of bug spray.
They are also known as "carpet beetles" - IMO they are the bane of taxidermists (or anyone who has a 'natural history" collection or even wool rugs/clothes, hence the name 'carpet beetle' back in the days when wool rugs were common....I've had them too - not in the numbers you describe but enough to destroy stuff.....they eat fur down near where it comes out of the hide and then one day you touch a mount and it's like a dog shedding with mange....they also eat claws and horns (not antlers) as well. Bug-bombing is pretty good - another thing I've found is if you are intent on keeping stuff around that they find appetizing (you really can't keep them out of the house, anymore than you can spiders) is to store the items in mothballs or if you have to rub something like sevin dust (pesticide that you put on roses and plants) or even powdered borax will do the job - into the fur on a antler plate, mount or hide....it's not attractive but will keep them off the stuff until you can get the infestation under control (and hopefully gone!)
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