Sentences with phrase «as carpet beetles»

Taken together, these regulars form a neat ecosystem, with spiders and centipedes as apex predators, hunting smaller fry such as carpet beetles and other spiders.

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The carpet beetles and book lice do much of the clearing up, scavenging dead insects, moulds and algae, as well as polishing off food crumbs and detritus from our own bodies, including nail clippings, hair and dead skin.

Ants, spiders, carpet beetles and gall midges — otherwise known as gall gnats — were found in every single residence, and all but one contained book lice, which Trautwein describes as «cute» and «the friendly cousins of parasitic head lice.»