The truth of the matter is that these similar insects only differ at their physical features and perhaps the.
Carpet beetles ticks that look like bed bugs.
While the complete list could be quite long the short list is fleas immature roaches booklice carpet beetles bat bugs and ticks.
There are many other varieties of carpet beetles that will vary in color and can have brown gray or even yellow markings.
The main difference is the color.
Booklice although rarer you can mistake bat bugs and spider beetles for bed bugs as well.
Unlike bed bugs carpet beetles have wings and can fly.
What are the bugs mistaken for bed bugs usually.
Varied carpet beetles do have brown on their backs but they look more spotted or striped with white and light colored patches mixed with brown.
Carpet beetle is one the most common look a like.
Bed bugs have small flat bodies making it possible for them to fit into tiny spaces about the width of a credit card.
If you spotted a tiny bug wandering around your bedroom your first instinct might have been to assume that it is a bed bug.
Black carpet beetles are approximately 5 mm long and round in shape.
However there are more bugs that look like bed bugs than you might expect.
Bed bug larvae look like little worms while carpet beetle larvae look like fuzzy bugs with little spines all over them.
The most common bed bugs lookalikes are.
Because of the similarities many professionals have ended up treating the wrong bugs for bed bugs.