In the family of furniture beetles, Anobiidae, there are only two species that have adapted to living in food. The drugstore beetle is the more common of the two, while the cigarette beetle is rare outside actual tobacco stocks. Like all furniture beetles the larvae live in burrows, which they gnaw and the result is […]
Furniture beetles
Latin: Anobiidae The larvae of these beetles live mainly in timber. The adults are very small and brownish with an almost cylindrical body. It is typical that the thorax is arched to form a hood which almost conceals the head. The larvae of the different species of furniture beetle are soft, curved, with very small […]