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Is this a bed bug?

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Boombatty · 25/04/2024 12:34

I have been tidying the drawers under my son's bed and found a few bugs crawling around. Worried that they are bed bugs although they don't look flat like in the pictures I've seen. Does anyone know what they might be? I can't see anything on the bed/mattress/sheets, just in the drawer under the bed.

Is this a bed bug?
Is this a bed bug?
Is this a bed bug?
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ConflictofInterest · 25/04/2024 12:43

No it looks like a 'black carpet beetle' to me.

silenttwin · 25/04/2024 12:44

🤮

Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 25/04/2024 12:47

No bed bugs don't look long and round like that. They're also nocturnal, very reticent creatures so you're unlikely to see one just pootling around in a drawer. I wouldn’t worry.

Theredfoxfliesatmidnight · 25/04/2024 12:48

Bed bugs look like an apple pip, not like your picture.

serialbullshitter · 25/04/2024 12:49

I do not think it looks like a bed bug

LightSpeeds · 25/04/2024 12:55

ConflictofInterest · 25/04/2024 12:43

No it looks like a 'black carpet beetle' to me.

^This

Elleherd · 25/04/2024 13:05

No, wrong shape especially head and bum, its a carpet beetle.

Boombatty · 25/04/2024 13:09

Oh phew. Thank you so much!

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Sonolanona · 25/04/2024 16:23

Definitely not :)
(Ask me how I know... Dh brought them home from a trip and I REALLY know what they look like now... it was awful!)

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