The leather beetle enters a person’s home in different ways: through open windows, with flowers and furniture, clothes and shoes that have been in an infested room for some time.
They enter homes easily and unnoticed; for some time you won’t even know about your new “neighbors.”
Why do leather beetles appear
Carpet beetles can infest stores, warehouses and other places where there is enough food for them.
You can bring home from such places not only an adult beetle, but also eggs and larvae.
So you can buy skin beetles. It’s even easier to purchase leather beetles along with used furniture, carpets, and clothes.
How to find a skin beetle nest
Such nests are most often found in rolled up carpets, floor crevices, under baseboards, behind radiators.
Sometimes skin beetles nest right in closets, in deposits of fur or woolen items.
Then you should carefully treat both the nests and the infected things with broad-spectrum insecticides that are low-hazard to people.
How to destroy the skin beetle in an apartment
Most often this is permethrin or boric acid.
They are harmless to humans, but deadly to carpet beetles.
The powder is scattered in a thin layer in areas where there is a threat of infection, or diluted with water and sprayed there.
Previously, we told you how to get rid of ants in your house.
