Caught In The Spotlight [7/3/14] - a photo on Flickriver

Caught In The Spotlight [7/3/14]

Olympus X-925 (contrast enhanced)
A carpet beetle (probably the Varied Carpet Beetle - Anthrenus verbasci) is caught in a beam of light, while walking across a mysterious surface.

I first thought it was toilet/kitchen roll paper, but it doesn't have the right pattern. I now think it was probably a rubber underlay, left out on the kitchen table. The beetle itself is only 2-3mm long, so that's the kind of scale you're looking at.

Carpet beetles are generally considered to be pests because, although their adult instars (as seen in the photo) only eat pollen, their larvae eat keratin, chitin, cotton, and similar materials. Generally speaking, that's great, because they're recycling the likes of shed skin and hair, but it also means they recycle things you want to keep - clothes, carpets, embarrassing wigs, and pressed-butterfly collections.

www.naturespot.org.uk/species/varied-carpet-beetle
www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature/common-insect-pes...

Taken on: March 7, 2014

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carpet beetle

Anthrenus verbasci

pest

notreallyapest

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Sets appears in: • [2014]

Camera: Olympus FE4000,X920,X925, f/2.9, 1/500 sec, 5.5mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus FE4000,X920,X925
Aperture:	f/2.9
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	5.5mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.28
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