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The Dirty Dozen
1.
2.
Webbing Clothes Moth
of Museum Pests
Case-making Clothes Moth
3.
Varied Carpet Beetle
Anthrenus verbasci
Tinea pellionella
Tineola bisselliella
Brown
head
capsule
with no
case
around
body
Brown
or Black
head
Photo Charles Baker
Three segmented club
Enlarged tuft of hairs
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Larvae carry a cocoon like case with them
Elongated scales of varied colors
Tuft of reddish orange hair Uniform 10K gold/buff color
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5.
Black Carpet Beetle
Hide Beetle & Larder Beetle
6.
Dermestes maculatus & Dermestes lardarius
Attagenus spp.
Warehouse / Cabinet Beetle
Trogoderma spp.
Distinctive Brown
Band with Black
Spots
Long body with
tuft of hairs
Mottled color
pattern with
no scales.
Spear shaped
antenna club
Small points at
end of larvae
and adult
Range of black to
brown colored body
Curved points at
end of larvae
Four pairs of
tufts of hairs
and a short
tail.
Photo: Jim Kalisch, UNL Entomology
Photo: Jim Kalisch, UNL Entomology
Photo Dr. Michael Rust
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7.
Silverfish and Firebrats
Cigarette & Drugstore Beetles
Lasioderma serricorne
Stegobium paniceum
Lepisma saccharina
Long antennae
SawSawtoothed
antennae
Psocoptera
Constriction
at thorax
Photo Dr. Michael Rust
Less than
1/8 inch in length
Photo Copyright CSL
Silvery (Silverfish)
Powderpost Beetle
Psocids or Booklouse
three tail filaments
Last three
segments of
antennae
elongated
Deep pitted
lines on
wings
10.
9.
& Thermobia domestica
11.
or mottled in color (Firebrat)
12.
Cockroaches
Blattella germanica
Anobium punctatum – Wood Boring Pest
House Mouse
Mus musculus
Periplaneta americana
Small ridge on thorax
Light shading
on shield
Two black
bars on
shield
Tail as long
or longer than
body
Large ears
1/2 inch in length
1.5 inches in length
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Dark brown to
grey body color,
light grey
underneath