The Golden Spider Beetle
The Golden spider
beetle is a pest of stored food items such as seeds, dried meat, tea, seeds and
grains. It can also be found in leather, books, paper, cotton silk and feathers
and is covered in silky golden hairs and fine scales.
This nocturnal beetle
spends the days in cracks and crevices and looks like a spider as it has a
round abdomen, long thin legs. Its larvae are yellow white grubs with a brown
head.
The adult beetle is
about 4-5mm in length while the larvae can grow up to 3.5mm long.
The female beetle
lays anywhere from 20-40 eggs and between 11-30 days after being laid and
become adults just 18-26 days later.
The life cycle of the
golden spider beetle is around 9mths.
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