Can anyone help me with identifying this type of bug? There are a ton of them around the floor boards all around the room. I clean it all up and they are right back the next day! This room isn't sealed very well from the outdoors also. Thank you.
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It looks like a brown beetle. Spray with an insecticide
It looks like a nut weevil
i suppose it could be a brown beetle or even a tick but it also resembles a weevil. I do not believe that ticks have antennas.
I agree it looks like a tick (scroll down to the bottom and compare yours with the pix--it is hard to tell the color of your from the pix as it blurs out when I blow it up): www.tdi.services/
These things terrify me because they can cause Lyme disease and humans and pets (our dog had it). I would take one ASAP to a garden shop to verify and find the best way to be rid of them.
This site gives some good basics to prevent and rid your home of them:
It is important to make sure they don't embed in you or your pets. If you think you have one--call your doctor (or if it is your pet call their vet) to find their recommended removal techniques...there are many ways to remove them... so you need to find out what is recommended for your (your pet's) situation.
For the pets, please make sure their tick treatment is up to date and talk to the vet about the vaccine.
I am the last one to use chemicals...but for these...if none of the natural ways work, you may need to call in the pros. Please don't mess with them if they are indeed ticks.
Good luck!
Pghgirl40 - I usually always agree with you but this time is an exception. I cannot see any resemblance of the bug pictured to the pictures of ticks. Also, I am not sure you would see several ticks at one time, or over a day or so.
You know it could just be I have ticks on the brain as we have been dealing a major tick issue including our fur baby having Lyme.
The pix posted looked like what we were pulling off him with 8 legs vs. weevils which only have 6 legs (maybe I was counting the antenna in the pix as legs???).
Anyhow....I have been a maniac about ticks because of this :(
Every creepy crawly gives me a nervous tick (yes, I went there :)
Best lh1206 bag up this creepy crawly and have her neighborhood hardware store or garden shop verify what it is.
If I was counting the antenna as legs...my bad...6 leggers this shape are weevils. UGH...I just have to stop obsessing over bugs...it's been a rough couple of months!
It's definitely a weevil of some sort, & it looks to me like a black vine weevil (don't be fooled by the name, they can be either black or brown). They might have infested the walls for protection from cooler air, or they might be looking for a new food source if there was some recent change in the food source availability (sudden increase in weevil population, or possibly locally large scale loss of food source like crops drowned by flooding), especially if you're seeing more around outside as well.
It's not capable of biting humans & likely won't spread any diseases, but they might chew up some of your house plants or any plants or crops you have planted outside.
It may be another type of weevil (there's something like 1,000 species of weevils in the use, but they can look very different from each other). It's not a tick, though there is some resemblance to a tick in the photo (if there are a lot of these but you have found none attached to you, that alone would rule out ticks).
They're weevils. Harmless, but they do love bird seed/seeds in general. They're a "pantry pest" i guess if that's the right term- but they are genuinely harmless to us and animals- not so much your seed foods/grains tho.
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