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Can anyone ID this?!

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Eezee · 16/04/2022 10:35

My house is a magnet for bugs 😔

Found this beetle in the bath before I ran it this morning, does anyone know what it might be?

Couldn't easily see a match online.

Can anyone ID this?!
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TotalRhubarb · 16/04/2022 10:40

We get these in our garden. No idea what they’re called, so waiting to find out with you, OP!

Eezee · 16/04/2022 10:42

Might've been helpful if I'd said, it's 5mm long

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WildCoasts · 16/04/2022 10:46

Weevil of some sort.

Lucifersleeps · 16/04/2022 10:47

Looks a bit like a thing we called a ‘black clock’ beetle. But 5mm is too small, those things were huge!

Lucifersleeps · 16/04/2022 10:47

Ah yeah it’s way more like a weevil.

Eezee · 16/04/2022 10:51

At the risk of sounding clueless (ahem) what's the difference between beetles & weevils?

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oprahfan · 16/04/2022 10:57

Looks like a ground beetle. Usually found outside. Not a weevil. Weevils have a long ‘snout’ and square head. Harmless. Just like your house 😬

Eezee · 16/04/2022 11:26

@oprahfan

Looks like a ground beetle. Usually found outside. Not a weevil. Weevils have a long ‘snout’ and square head. Harmless. Just like your house 😬
Honestly in the past few yrs we've had a biscuit beetle outbreak in the bathroom traced back to a wheat 'hot water btl' thing in the cupboard, mice traced back to a neighbours 2 doors down (who isn't doing anything about it as far as I can tell but thankfully it's under control at mine now thanks to poison in their loft access route), currently an unidentified creature in a random place in the kuchen, can't figure out yet what it is or what's its food or why it's there! House of horrors.

And we also get 1-2 giant spiders most nights downstairs come September. House needs work or I'd move.

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anotheruser75 · 16/04/2022 11:34

It's a pea leaf weevil

GladAllOver · 16/04/2022 13:44

Eezee Those large spiders - Tegenaria - are busy catching many of those pests. Leave them alone to do their job !

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