Does anyone know what kind of bug this is?
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It looks like a hard-shelled beetle.
It's a flea. They are common for people who live with animals.
I do think a Flea can be in a home without the animal defecating in the home lol!
You are right fleas can hitch a ride into a home that doesn't even have pets.
That extremely specific conclusion must be based on personal experience.
There are a PLETHORA of other ways they can invade and infest. If you have pets, I would start there!
lol Thats DEFINITELY NOT how our cats got their fleas. They got them from a stray cat the kids brought into our house
There are thousands of types of beetles. Sadly seeing them living to see legs and antenna styles is the easiest way to ID them from a photo. I can rarely do from a pix of a dead one (sorry).
Best to take it to the hardware or garden store to get a proper ID if you want to know exactly what it is.
One, I would not freak out about; 6 or more, I would worry. Generally they come into the house for warmth and sometimes for food, like carpet beetles eat carpet glues and there are beetles that eat flour and grains. Most are just lost.
To keep them out of the house, make sure windows are sealed and no holes in the foundation. They can sneak in anywhere and are attracted to yards by vegetation piles, down trees and such. Some beetles....like ladybugs, feed on bad garden critters so you want them around. I don't think it is a lady bug. Just using that as an example of the good, along with the bad and ugly.
If you found it in the carpet, vacuum well,and be on the look out for more. If you found it in the pantry, you may want to check all of your flours and grains and toss any if you find more.
Hope this helps and that you find an answer!
it almost looks like a flea to me but i know it is too big and beetle-like
it looks like a flea
Very shiny to be a flea. Most tend to be more brown. Someone remarked it could be pregnant flea... is possible. Could also be full of blood.
Boric acid kill fleas. Get it at family dollar. 3 bucks they will die
If you are anywhere near a University they may have an entymologist that can help identify.
the back legs make it look like an aquatic beetle of some sort
It is absolutely a flea. When alive, they will look longer and skinnier, and you won't see those long "jack-rabbit" like legs sticking out the back. This is exactly how they look when dead.
I think sometimes they are called snow fleas ( but they aren't fleas) or a spring tailed beetle maybe. But they don't bite humans or animals ( if that's what it is ) but they are usually found outside and possibly in your potted plants outside. If they are inside you are supposed to make sure your home is not kept warm and humid.
Flea
That's a flea
Flea
Um a tick or a flea maybe idk
Tick
let me tell everyone something about this little black horror .. i have been dealing with these things for over 2 years .. and im just now finding out what it is.. they are embedded in my skin there in my hair eyelashes they have destroyed my entire home.. THEY ARE WOOD BURROWING BEETLES THE BEETLE DOSE NOT BITE BUT THE PYEMOTES PARASITE THAT FEEDS ON THE BEETLE LARVAE DOES ... REAL BAD... NOT SURE HOW OR WHY THEY DECIDED TO ATTACK ME BUT THEY HAVE .. MY SKIN IS DESTROYED .. I HAVE SCARED LESIONS ALL OVER MY BODY .. NOW ITS SPRING AND THEY ARE GOING CRAZY. I EVEN MOVED BUT BECAUSE THERE IN MY SKIN IT MADE NO DANG DIFFERENCE THEY HAVE INFESTED ALL MY CLOTHES MY FURNITURE BED ... ANYTHING THAT WAS WOOD HAD TO BE THROWN AWAY .. SO BEFORE YOU ALL KEEP ON JOKING ABOUT STUFF ... KNOW THE SERIOUSNESS OF BUGS AND THE DAMAGE THAT THEY CAN DO .. SO IF ANYONE HAS THESE THING AROUND THEIR HOUSE KITCHEN... GUARANTEED THAT THEY ARE INFESTING YOUR KITCHEN CABINETS AND THEY WILL MAKE THEIR WAY INTO YOUR DRESSER ETC... LOOK FOR SMALL HOLES IN THE WOOD ALONG THE BASE BOARDS AS WELL LOOK FOR SMALL PILES OF SAW DUST IF YOU DONT SEE THE LARVAE IN THE WHOLES THEN THEY HAVE ALREADY HATCHED AND ARE GONE .. BUT THEY WILL FIND OTHER PLACES TO NEST AND LAY THEIR EGGS..
They are called flea beetles. Like almost identical to fleas but they are not...they are a type of small beetle. I just found one crawling on one of my ceiling fans lights. I was scared it was a flea but I don't own any pets so I did a lot of research to find out
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