relbugman wrote:
The dermestids (Dermestes, etc) used to clean skeletons are much larger and primarily eat partly or fully dried flesh and hair while the carpet beetles (Anthrenus etc.) do well on carpet fibers and accumulated dandruff and other organic debris filtering into rugs even in scrupulously cleaned areas.
Thank you, this 100% correct, as you knew. The larger variaties, mostly Dermestes sp. tend not to be indoors. Unless you call the remains of a dried out former cow indoors. The things we do for our avocations.