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Carpet Beetle Hair, Setae Under the Microscope

Carpet Beetle Hair, Setae

This is one of the two main types of setae on a carpet beetle. These "hairs" tend to be concentrated in the caudal fan of hairs.

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References:

Ebeling, Walter, URBAN ENTOMOLOGY, University of California Division of Agricultural Sciences, pp.310-313, 1975.

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