Latin: Dermestes haemorrhoidalis. A very close relative to the bacon beetle. The adult beetles are plain black or dark brown and have golden undersides. It has gradually become common all over Europe, especially in cities, where one of its main habitats is pigeons’ nests. Very littered apartments or businesses where food leftovers and kitchen waste […]
Dermestid larvae
Dermestid larvae usually wander away from the material they have been living in when they are fully grown (p. 73) and then gnaw into some other material and pupate there. In buildings they often attack timber, and in stores of hides or dried fish which have been attacked by the larder beetle the woodwork may, […]