Attagenus pellio
Common fur beetles ( Attagenus Pellio )
The common or spotted fur beetles ( Attagenus Pellio ) belongs to the genus of the fur beetle ( Attagenus ) in the family of skin beetles ( Dermestidae ).
Features
The beetles reach a body length of 3.5 to 6 millimeters. You wearing a black colored, hairy body, which places areas with lighter hair. Depending a great spot located in the center of the top wing near the wing covers seam, each two more lie laterally behind the shoulder bump, these spots also can not be configured. Other spots can be found on the pronotum basally center and at the two corners, small spots are located on the sides of the pronotum behind the middle. The first and eighth to eleventh antennal segment is black, the second to seventh is colored yellow. The legs are apart from the tarsi yellowish brown. The two similar types Attagenus megatoma and Attagenus schaefferi can be distinguished from the vile fur beetles by the absence of light hairy spots.
Occurrence and life
The animals are found worldwide, where they are, to the north takes place in Europe to Lapland and Greenland. They are common in the British Isles. Synanthropic one finds the kind rarely found in the wild in bird nests and crud, but they come near to the people very frequently. The adults already occur in the spring in apartments where the females lay their eggs. Later in the year you will find the adult animals on flowers of umbelliferous plants, fruit trees, hawthorns and blackthorn. The larvae are up to 12 mm long and have a golden yellow color. You can do through their feeding significant damage to textiles, carpets, leather, furs and the like.