Can You Identify This Bug?

What’s the scale? It’s a beetle of some sort, my guess. I’m passing this on to my entymology friend.

Maureen (May 11, 2012 at 2:52 pm) Reply

It’s very tiny. Comparable to the round end of a sewing pin.
avoision (May 11, 2012 at 2:54 pm) Reply

Definitely not a tick (deer or dog/wood). It’s got 6 legs so that narrows it down a bit. If you get no responses, you can email a pic of this bug to the Illinois Extension Services and see what they come back with (look up one of their entomologists).

Anthony (May 12, 2012 at 7:13 am) Reply

Thanks guys – pretty convinced from other comments on Facebook that this is a spider beetle. Liz and I spent a good part of Saturday going through a lot of her yarn/fabrics, putting things in plastic bags. Hopefully, we won’t see any more of these guys…

avoision (May 14, 2012 at 9:49 am) Reply

Thanks I’m having same issue and was scared it was something else….how did you get rid of them

Linda montanaro (May 23, 2012 at 12:29 pm) Reply

Hi Linda. The advice we read was to locate the source of the bugs. After identifying the various spots where we had seen them, we cleaned the areas pretty thoroughly (my wife Liz had a lot of yarn/fabrics stored in a nearby closet).

We went through everything, one by one, and found some stuffing that seemed to be the source of where they were coming from. Haven’t seen any since.
avoision (May 23, 2012 at 12:44 pm) Reply

Hello,
did you finally identify the bug? I found 2 in 1 month interval in my house and can’t really find any answers.

Thanks

melissa (March 8, 2013 at 8:04 am) Reply

We think it’s a spider beetle. After the initial clearing, things were fine… but we still seem to spot one every couple of weeks or so, around the bathroom. The sightings still happen, but they’re much less frequent.
avoision (March 8, 2013 at 1:57 pm) Reply