Carpet beetle??

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Username85

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So I found an adult carpet beetle on the lowest part of my plant. It was the only one I could find anywhere, how concerned should I be lol.
I’m about 8 weeks into flower and I’m not sure if these are the types of bugs where you see one and you already have a big problem, or if they go off on their own.
I have a lot of wind movement, about 5 different fans in my tent, anyone have any experience with these guys?
 
jondamon

jondamon

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Username85 said:
I found a thread or two where people mention getting a few and that they can eat holes in leaves, but couldn’t find much else on em really.
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Carpet beetles usually don’t stick around long.

the larvae eat fluff etc and can munch little holes in clothes too.

the adult beetle is a muncher of vegetation.

whenever I’ve seen one the next day I’ve found it dead lol.

Chances are even if the adult laid an egg, there wouldn’t be much for the larvae to then feed on and as such the chances are the adult beetle will try to find somewhere near a food source for its young to feed when they hatch.
 
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Username85

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jondamon said:
Carpet beetles usually don’t stick around long.

the larvae eat fluff etc and can munch little holes in clothes too.

the adult beetle is a muncher of vegetation.

whenever I’ve seen one the next day I’ve found it dead lol.

Chances are even if the adult laid an egg, there wouldn’t be much for the larvae to then feed on and as such the chances are the adult beetle will try to find somewhere near a food source for its young to feed when they hatch.
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I’ve only seen the one in my tent-I have seen them in other places in my house-gonna have to do a deep carpet cleaning for starters. I looked up some info on them and read an adult could lay thousands of eggs-approaching this cautiously optimistic lol
 
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