Is this a bedbug or a random insect

[MrsNT]

Found this insect after I washed clothes, left them on line to dry outside in sun and brought inside and was about to iron. It fell out from one of the shirts. Is this a bed bug? Currently freaking out

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That looks very much like a bedbug to me, I'm afraid

Looks like a bedbug. Have any of your family been getting bitten or coming up with an unexplained rash?

Does look like a bedbug sadly.

Do you have black/brown spots and or smudges of blood on bedding or mattresses? Take the sheets off and especially look at seams/binding and where handles are sewn on.

You need to put a coin next to it for size and take a better picture then we can tell you.

What size is it? Bed bugs are about 5mm (half a centimetre).

There isn’t anything to help us tell the scale of the insect in your photo - but it looks like it might be a lot bigger.

I suspect it is a beetle from outside.

Yes this. At first glance it's the wrong shape for a bed bug. I have seen similar insects around on my washing before. Was it dead or alive? Had it been through the way it'd be dead. More likely landed there from the garden

Pictures on google of bedbugs suggest that they have a pointier bottom end than the bug in this picture.

I don’t think so. It’s antennae look totally wrong. It would help to know what size it is.

It’s far more likely to be a bug that settled on the clothes to catch some zzzs in the sun while it was hanging outside.

It doesn’t look like a bed bug at all. It’s just a beetle from the garden.

It's a beetle, bedbugs are v flat.

Not a bedbug. Beetle from the garden.

Looks like a beetle.

To big for a bed bug.

Bedbugs aren't flat when they're full of blood . . .

Definitely not a bed bug. We had an infestation about 5 years ago!

Surely if the washing as hanging outside it is far more likely to be an insect from the garden?

Looks too big, can you post a photo with something next to it for scale?

Looks like a dermested beetle or similar. Chuck it outside, completely harmless.

Not a bedbug. See the sticky out bits sort of between its abdomen and thorax? Bedbugs don’t have that. Some sort of shield bug maybe.

Flour beetle imo

Agree that’s not a bed bug. They are tiddly tiny. Looks like a beetle to me.

Why would a live bed bug be on freshly washed items you hung outside on the line? It’s obviously some sort of beetle from the garden.

I think so too, it'll have settled while the sheets are on the line.

So havent seen any spots or signs on bedding. Not got any bite marks or rashes on skin either. Husband is convinced its a beetle from garden that hopped on but I had my doubts. Reading all the msgs I think safe to say it is a beetle rather than a bed bug
Thanks for the help