carpet beetles

6126  My name is Amanda. I am located in downtown Toronto & I have just found an accumulation of these dead bugs in my window sill. They are approx. 2mm in length. There appears to be 2 different kinds – one with a bronze coloured body, the other with a speckled grey body. They appear to have wings.The apartment has been closed up while we were away on summer vacation and these were located between the blind and the window.

These are carpet beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae); the brownish elongate ones appear to be in the genus Attagenus (black carpet beetles and allies) and the round gray one appears to be in the genus Anthrenus (varied carpet beetle and allies). See https://tinyurl.com/zl9w25c elsewhere on this site for more information including control recommendations. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.