What is this bug

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Please tell me this isn't a cockroach. I just spotted it walking across my floor. 😱

Not sure you can tell from that picture. If it's any consolation I caught a cockroach in our house about 6 months ago and have never seen another one. We have plenty of silverfish though.

Can you do measurements and a top view?

So there won't be a tribe of them. Still makes me itch! I didn't even know you could get them in the uk, I associate them with Tenerife! It definitely wasn't a silverfish, it was more chunky like a cockroach.

Any better?

It does look very much like one.

It looks like a shield bug.

Hello, hard to see but looks like a shield bug of some kind. Have a google! If so they are harmless to people / household.

First instinct was cockroach but the picture is not very good and makes it hard to really identify. If you look for German cockroach on Google and decide if it's the same ?

Normal advice is they are very hard to get rid of and you need to call a company in and also that if you have seen one there's sure to be more around but like the PP I found one in my front room blitzed my whole house like a woman possessed and never saw another again and I've been on my hands and knees in the middle of the night with a torch making sure there's nothing around nearly every day since.

I'd put my money on shield bug. Totally harmless. You don't need rentokil just yet!

It’s a shield bug.

The body shape and legs say shield bug too leggy to be a cockroach imo

No, it wasn't a German cockroach. I'm hoping for a shield bug, they sound less menacing.

Thanks everyone, you've put my mind at rest. I've recently got a new house plant, could that have attracted it in?

I don't think it's a shield bug. Some kind of beetle. If its massive it's a diving beetle, if not just any one of several. Don't think a cockroach.

From the shape, it's definitely a shield bug. Harmless and quite cute!

It's really hard to tell from the photos, but there's a lot it could be. May Beetle, aka June Beetle, which are in season atm, sprung to mind first. But there's lots it could've that aren't cockroaches