Carpet beetle may refer to any of the following types of beetle:
- Dermestidae, a family of Coleoptera
- Varied carpet beetle, a 3 mm-long beetle that can be a serious household pest
- Black carpet beetle, a beetle, Attagenus unicolor, that can be a serious household pest
- Anthrenus, a genus of skin beetles (family Dermestidae)
- Brown carpet beetle, Attagenus
- Attagenus pellio, a pest damaging stored products
Famous quotes containing the words carpet and/or beetle:
“A wind has started a little whirlpool
of sand where the carpet ought to be,
and shells lie
by the preposterous feet
of that woman who frets me, annihilates me,
O she will kill me yet.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)