Are Sawtooth Grain Beetles Carpet Beetles. Larvae are yellow white and about 1 8 inch long. The saw toothed grain beetle and the merchant grain beetle are slender flat brown beetles that are about 1 10 inch long. Black carpet beetle varied carpet beetle and furniture carpet beetle.
Management is the same for all pantry pests. The adult sawtooth grain beetle is 1 10 inch narrow brown with 6 saw like projections on each side of the middle section of the body.
These projections give the beetle its name.
They are among the most common of pantry and cabinet infesting beetles and will readily enter homes from outside areas where they commonly feed on bird seed flower pollen and more. Saw toothed grain beetle description. The body is flat. What do sawtoothed grain beetles eat.