Can you identify this insect/bug?

[MagicalTrevor]

Found this today in some bed sheets, can anyone identify it for me please?

[Johnnytheboy]

No but I know someone who can if anyone can. Hang fire...

[MagicalTrevor]

Thanks, I think it might be a 'carpet beetle'? Supposedly a fairly common household pest that feeds on natural materials and dead skin?

[Johnnytheboy]

An entomologist of my acquaintance said:

Magical Trevor has the correct ident – a carpet or museum beetle (Anthrenus species – probably verbasci ) – feed on dead animal remains as larvae (larvae = woolly bears) – dead animal remains can be just one dead fly, so most houses have them – they wreak havoc in insect collections destroying many a specimen.

Incidentally he's a very PH entomologist, if there's such a thing. He has a Fiesta ST and his OH has either 2 or 3 old Minis, I forget which.

[MagicalTrevor]

Johnnytheboy said:

An entomologist of my acquaintance said:

Magical Trevor has the correct ident – a carpet or museum beetle (Anthrenus species – probably verbasci ) – feed on dead animal remains as larvae (larvae = woolly bears) – dead animal remains can be just one dead fly, so most houses have them – they wreak havoc in insect collections destroying many a specimen.

Incidentally he's a very PH entomologist, if there's such a thing. He has a Fiesta ST and his OH has either 2 or 3 old Minis, I forget which.

Thanks for that chap

Now to destroy them