Beetlemania

Sigh.

Carpet beetle trap summary

Trap ID	Location	Bug count
1	Under couch in living room	2
2	AP room	8
3
4
5	AP door	3 (and a moth)
6	L/B closet	1
7	Living room	1
8	Basement	0
9	Basement	0

Sightings and settings

• Jan 3 2021: AP finds larva on sweater; team IDs it as carpet beetle.
• Jan 8 2021: First traps set.
• Early March: AP spots multiple beetles in bedroom traps. Yuck
• March 6: LLW spots live beetle on coat downstairs
• March 7: AP spots beetles + larvae near yarn bin; discards most of yarn bin+contents, airtight+mothballs select yarns. Traps are redistributed to other rooms
• March 8: AP finds one new beetle in Trap 2
• March 11: AP spotted 2 live beetles in bedroom (not in traps); killed them
• March 13: new beetle in trap 2
• March 14: new beetle in trap 2
• March 15: AP did deep clean under bed; spotted a few larvae both dead and alive, killed the live ones. Also saw a couple live adult beetles in common area at top of stairs. Killed. Moved Trap 1 to couch downstairs.
• March 16: Remember how I tried to salvage a few skeins of yarn & in-progress knitting projects by saving them in airtight Ziploc bags with moth poison? Larvae. In the yarn. In the bags. So that's going out with the trash tonight.
• March 18: New beetle in trap 2
• March 20: Beetle in trap 5.
• March 21: LLW spots 1 live beetle on upstairs bathroom wall, and 1 live beetle on B's sleeping bag sack in L/B bedroom closet. Places traps 6 + 7.
• March 25: New beetle in trap 2; other beetles' bodies look disturbed
• March 28: New beetle in trap 2
• April 3: New beetle (first one) in trap 6 and new beetle (first one) in trap 7
• April 13: New beetle in trap 2 and new beetle in trap 1 (where the fuck are they comin from UGH)
• April 27: Live beetle sighted (and smushed) on AP bedroom wall near door; new beetle in trap 2. Refreshed food & sex in Trap 1, Trap 2 & Trap 5
• May 8: At some point Mako saw a live beetle in the basement, so there are now two fresh traps down there.