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 child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“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)