Minibeasts Year 2St AndrewsSeraya Hinze

This is a real carpet beetle.

Carpet beetle life cycle It lives in houses. The grown up carpet beetles eat pollen. When it is young it is called a larva carpet beetle. It is also called

a woolly bear.

The larva carpet beetle eats carpet,furniture,clothing and insect collections.

• Adult carpet beetles live for 20-60 days.

• Adult lays 30-100 eggs.

• Larval stage lasts 60-325 days.

• Pupal stage lasts for 10-17 days.

Summary Pictures of a carpet beetle. Carpet beetle life cycle. Pictures of a baby spider. Baby spider life cycle. A spider poem. Questions.

• This is a group of baby spiders. I found them outside of my house on the post.

The Spider WebThe spider spun a silver web

Above the gate last night

It was round with little spokes

And such a pretty sight

This morning there were drops of dew

Hung on it, one by one;

They changed to diamonds, rubies red.

When they were lit with sun.

A spiders nice to have around

To weave a web so fine

On which to string the drops of dew

That catch the bright sunshine.

Questions What do larva carpet beetles eat? What do adult carpet beetles eat? What are larva carpet beetles also called? Which spider eats who?

Answers Carpet,furniture,clothing and insect collections. Pollen. Woolly bear. The female spider eats the male.