I have been fighting carpet beetles daily vacuuming and spraying with vinegar and using boric powder. But today I found this all over my clean towels! I think they are lint bugs! They actually caused a splinter like cut on my skin when I was removing them. Do I just move? (not an option! kidding) I am too poor to hire big exterminator. Help!
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From what I read, they like cotton. You need to wash everything and dry it in a hot dryer. Wash down surfaces with vinegar. You also need patience. It takes time to get rid of them.
Since you have these bugs on your towels, I would suggest you contact your local county extension office and try to identify these bugs and get information on how to remove them.
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I don't see any bugs. All I see is lint and other debris. I agree with the previous poster, it's always best to identify the pest before taking any action on it.
Idk what they are but we have those too for 3 yrs now I've tried everything to kill them and it only works for a few days and they are back, we've called the exterminator and they took samples nothing but I am here to tell with three years of torture because whatever they are I'm allergic to them and it's horrible, and for 3 years I've taken videos and pictures of them and they are some type of flying insect , very fast and so small you need a magnifying glass. I can tell w what I have observed they are using lint, hair and types of fabric to wrap their eggs or make cacoons so what your seeing is a cacoon wrapped in lint or some type of larvae or egg I can't figure that out , and no one can identify these horrible things and I'm to the point where I am going to contact an entomologist to try to help, I think it's a new species because I've researched and looked it up and I get dead ends everywhere. We even moved but because they were in everything now we have them in our new place . At first we thought we had gotten rid of them and then we brought a tub of clothes in from storage to wash and they are back now so we don't know what to do because w out identification we can't kill them because everything we've tried all the way down to home remedies for clothes bugs absolutely does not work and they reproduce very rapidly, and very aggressive if they have a cluster of eggs or whatever they are and you get close or aggravate the area, and I can tell you they do sting but they are so small it feels like a small pin prick, but as soon as I get stung I start to itch and hard to breath and have to take allergy meds, and it's horrible.
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