AIBU to disregard Carpet Beetles?

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DD ( teen) has found two in the past couple of weeks in her bedroom. She is freaking out a little. We lived in a wooded area and have cats.
She has a synthetic carpet. Most of the floor in the house has no carpet. Found no holes in clothes etc.
My view is these bugs are just part of normal living, like spiders, ladybirds etc.
I spent a while her room today lifting mattress, sheets, had a torch in corners, cracks in the room. I found no bugs or larvae.

Is it normal to find a couple of beetles in a room?

Ignore them at your peril!!!! They are horrible creatures and will breed and shed and breed and shed in unseen areas... get the place treated. I had them in a flat before and it was awful...

they eat wool
any wool in your house is at risk .....
jumpers, scarves, rugs, gloves .....
mothacks have their uses ......

We have lived 9 years in a house with carpet beetles. I only ever see a handful every year, I remove them when I see them but the amount never seems to go up or down. They've never bothered me, haven't eaten any carpet that I know of yet, we only have a few carpeted rooms anyway. Our house is 100 years old and there are so many old nooks and crannies for them to hide out in. One particular time of year they head to the light, and that's when I usually find them either on the bathroom windowsill or in the hallway (neither is carpeted) and squash them!
To me it's part of living in an old house, along with the giant spiders in the autumn.

TalkinPeece

I don;t think we have anything woollen in the house!

Ilovehamabeads Absolutely!

This is my point. I have lived in a time in the tropics. scorpions, cobras, deadly spiders were common place.
I don;t mind living with them- do I really need to exterminate?

I would normally say to leave creatures alone, but apparently carpet beetles will put holes in your clothing/carpets and can cause rashes in humans that look like bed bug bites.
Spiders and ladybugs in the house are good, as they eat insects and aphids!

I'm ignoring ours! Victorian terrace wooden floor boards still in our bedroom and hallway, kids bedrooms have synthetic carpets and laminate etc downstairs and no wool as I'm allergic so I'm just presuming they're in the covered chimneys and under the old floor boards they're not hurting anyone.

It's possible they are tucked away in a little used drawer or cupboard, quietly eating all the clothes. I don't mind the odd one, but wouldn't want to find a lot...

It is possible that they can cause an allergy, skin rash usually.

Our tenants ignored them and we moved in afterwards to find them all over the place. Our cats developed scabs from them too.

Treated the house with diatomaceous earth on the hard floors and flea spray on the carpeted areas (Acclaim, Indorex etc.). They also sneak into cottons and furnishings, coats, leather, feathers...everything edible is now sealed in plastic bags and inside boxes because they keep coming back, they come in from outside and breed in cracks in floors, skirting boards etc.

I think if you de clutter frequently, dust and vacuum a lot, then they can't build up to infestation levels. But if you have places behind and u der furniture that don't get vacuumed, or stored/rarely used clothes, you really need to take it seriously.

I would spray the carpet

We were treating for possible bedbugs and sprayed and then found a couple of carpet beetle carcasses

I WhatsApped a pic to the pest man and he confirmed carpet beetles and in his words “very common found in most homes”

Something in out house is eating our synthetic carpet - I suspect moths/their grubs as I’ve spotted a couple in the summer. Anyway, short version is that Lakeland mothstop liberally sprayed around the carpet and curtains plus some vigorous hoovering seems to have halted it - and also seemed to kill all sorts of other insects. It smelt quite pleasant too. I’d recommend it.