Minute brown scavenger beetle (likely a carpet beetle)

Homes, especially around carpets, stored fabrics, lint, and animal-derived materials; also found outdoors on flowers.

Larvae feed on wool, fur, feathers, dead insects, and other keratin-rich debris; adults often feed on pollen.

Small, rounded adults may wander indoors. The bristly larvae develop in hidden, undisturbed material and can leave shed skins.

Larvae can damage natural-fiber textiles, but the beetles do not bite or spread disease; outdoors, adults visit flowers.