A flea has a reddish brown to black color.
Bed bug black and brown carpet beetle.
Like most beetles black carpet beetles have wings and they can fly.
A carpet beetle is black brown.
A mature bed bug has a copper brown color while nymphs are translucent white.
They range in color from black to speckled with white brown yellow and orange.
However the carpet beetle is the smallest of the two and averages 1 8th of an inch in length while the bed bug is about 1 4th of an inch long.
Larvae young carpet beetles are 1 8 to 1 4 inch long and tan or brownish.
A spider beetle is reddish brown.
Although not always a pure black color they are generally dark brown to black and may have lighter patterns on their elytra.
Bed bugs and carpet beetles are both very small.
Carpet beetles vary in color depending on type e g varied black furniture or common carpet beetles.
Sometimes they look like a black and yellow ladybug.
The carpet beetle and bed bug not only leave similar looking bites but there are other similarities.
A booklouse may vary in color ranging from gray to light to colorless.
Differences between bed bugs and carpet beetles.
What size is the bug.
Bed bugs are reddish brown flat and shaped like an apple seed.