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Yikes! I have black carpet beetles! Orkin's pest control service isn't working, how do I get rid of them?!?

About a year ago, we had a contractor from Lowe's come and install carpet throughout our new house we just bought. About 3-6 months later we saw a black carpet larvae hanging out just outside our kitchen in the hallway on the carpet. We didn't have any money so we didn't call an exterminator and just killed it and left it alone. My wife also didn't regularly vacuum because my wife's parents never did and she didn't see the need to do it. Recently we had bed bugs and we've been vacuuming every week but ever since the bed bug extermination (the end of winter), we've been seeing our clothes get these serious holes in them. One hole was so huge I could put my thumb through it (and this was a towel)! During the bed bug follow up inspection, the exterminator looked inside our couch and discovered that there were dead black carpet beetle larvae and dead black carpet beetles inside but since they were all dead he didn't recommend for us to trash it. He also found dead carpet beetles along the edge of the living room carpet but made no attempt to remove them. I read online black carpet beetles feed on other dead insects... What started all this was we found an adult female black carpet beetle on my wife's cotton robe after she got on the shower. She's not sure if it flew on there and just landed and was eating or if he dropped on there from a towel she just put on her head that hadn't been used in a while... Either way, it spooked us and we had already hired Orkin to do quarterly pest control and year round check ups so it made sense to call them and have them figure it out. The best part is, the guy Orkin has assigned to us didn't even know what it was! Other sightings of these pests are: We saw a larvae shedding in our bed sheets (a sheet we haven't used in a while that we grabbed from the linen closet). I saw several more "skins" on the floor in linen closet. Orkin set down a series of glue traps (not containing Pheromone) and when a fly landed in it, a bunch of larvae rushed to go feed on the dead bug and got stuck on the trap. Another trap in another room had an adult black carpet beetle stuck to it. Lastly, several of my shirts had holes in it so I moved them from my dresser to my closet but it didn't stop the munching. If you don't think I can handle this myself (we "let it go" for about a year) who do I call to professionally deal with this??? If you think I can handle this, what do I do without disturbing my life too much - we just got through a bed bug disruption afterall...?

Public Comments

1. AHHHH!!!!! I'm dieing... We're having the same darn problem over here.