Furniture Carpet Beetle. Anthrenus flavipes

• The life cycle (from egg to adult) varies from 149 to 422 days. Normally each female will lay from 30-100 eggs which hatch in about 3 weeks.

• This insect overwinters as the adult, and no eggs are laid in cold weather except in heated buildings.

• The larval stage requires 112-378 days and evolves through 6 to 12 instars. The adults may emerge as early as March in South Carolina.