Insect ID help, please. (Warming: photos of insects...)

[LookingThroughTheTrees]

They’re less than 5mm long (they’re not in my house, but a house we're looking at buying)

They’re all over - dead, but this means the living ones are hiding away...

Pubic Lice

Those are babies and never made it into adult underwear. Froze to death. The adults grow to about 90mm long.

Cupboard beetles?

(or Pantry beetles - cupboard beetles may be a local name)

@PantherPantherus

Pubic Lice

Those are babies and never made it into adult underwear. Froze to death. The adults grow to about 90mm long.

Please say you’re joking!!!!

I think they look like woodworm beetles.

Yes. Just boil them. Good in soup. Like croutons but carb free.

Argh you’re saying all of the different possibilities I came up with. Also wondered about the german cockroach 😫

Trying to work out whether it is worth it (priced to sell as it needs work). Difficult not being able to just phone a builder/ pest person to come and look.

Woodworm beetles, May is the usual month of seeing them. Any sign of holes in timber?

(Although they’re too small for the german cockroach, they look like it - I wondered if they were younger ones).

I thought pantry beetle to start with, but the antennae look too large

@KeziaOAP

Woodworm beetles, May is the usual month of seeing them. Any sign of holes in timber?

How sure are you? The antennae seem too long compared to photos online.

Just noticed the antennae, some form of longhorn beetle?

Bed bugs?

pmsl @PantherPantherus

I would find & ask on an entomology board OP. I couldn't rule out bedbugs from pics you posted.

ps: they look wildly more like bed bugs than any of the other suggestions here; were they segmented if you looked up close?

They are not Duvet Bugs (different species). Duvet Bugs are much larger - about the size of a small cucumber when they tuck their legs in. People mistake them for the lumpy bits at the end of the duvet, but they are in fact just sleeping.

@lljkk

ps: they look wildly more like bed bugs than any of the other suggestions here; were they segmented if you looked up close?

My 'comfort' is that they have much longer antennae than the bed bugs.... unfortunately that’s like german cockroaches..... I first thought pantry type bugs, but they are everywhere (behind books/ in drawers).

It’s a clear before doing anything type job (hoarder style, but not that extreme). Priced accordingly....

@PantherPantherus

They are not Duvet Bugs (different species). Duvet Bugs are much larger - about the size of a small cucumber when they tuck their legs in. People mistake them for the lumpy bits at the end of the duvet, but they are in fact just sleeping.

Don’t tease me 😠🤣🤣

You could ask the Natural History Museum
www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature.html

I was just reading about this yesterday thanks to another thread. Woodworm is a collective name for a few different wood eating bug species apparently

They look like some form of Long horn. The photos are a bit blurry to make an identification.

Possibly Cerambycinae or Lamiinae - of which there are several species, most of which are found in woodland.

They look like Australian spider beetles to me

@MerlinsBeard87

They look like Australian spider beetles to me

Aha! Yes - that’s the best fit yet - that or a related version of it) (and the description of what/ how they eat fits).

My biggest concerns are: do they spread disease, do they bite and how hard are they to get rid of.

^the white marked spider beetle is the other one.

I’ve never heard of them before

I thought bed bugs straight away