Can anyone identify this bug????

[totallyfrusted]

Can anyone tell me what this is???? I’ve had about 6 or 7 crawling across my desk today and am slightly concerned they may be cockroaches. I should add I work in a garden office so would only have to burn that down and not the whole house if it is

ChatGPT reckons it’s a rove beetle

i haven’t heard of one of those. Everything I looked up said a roach

Looks like a roach to me. How big is it?

Have had a look at the rove beetle and I don’t think it’s as the antenna are too short.

think I may finish work early today

Looks like a cockroach to me and I've lived in a cockroach infested hellhole. Get something to sort them asap. You don't want them overrunning your office😬

They are not vey big. Maybe a couple of cm.

Oh blimey. I was really hoping it was some kind of friendly beetle. It’s odd as we don’t have any food down here. So goodness knows where they have come from

I googled rove beetle after and agreed it doesn’t look the same. Sorry!

Google lens says cockroach.

Looks like a German cockroach.

@totallyfrusted There's a wildlife, nature and conservation board on MN, maybe ask on there.

Thank you I didn’t know that board existed. I shall give it a try.

I've lived somewhere with cockroaches (New Zealand) and it looks like that, sorry! But you're lucky they're only a couple of centimetres and not 6! Had a great experience in a shower in Bali... 😬

I’ve had an unfortunate experience with them in Africa while in the bathroom and it’s not something I want to have to relive 😩

roach getting ready to drop some eggs

I think I may be working from the kitchen table tomorrow

Co-pilot says it's a ground bug and is harmless. Definitely not a cockroach!

i found one or two of these in my house and freaked out!!
I think it's a type of wood cockroach which would make sense being that it's in your garden!

Its called something like Ectobius vittiventris. Let me try and find it, I found someone who identified it on Reddit !

That makes me feel better. I can cope with them being harmless bugs

I’ve sent a picture to a local pest control person so I’ll let you know what he says

Oh I've found the old Reddit post - someone suggested it was Planuncus tingitanus which is kind of a catch all term for unspecified roaches or something that tend to live outside in gardens etc. We have a garage covered in ivy and I think they breed there.
A pest control person could easily come back and say you need them exterminated and try and charge you lots of money 😶good luck!

thank you. I shall go and have a look. Feeling very itchy tonight

Can you get a better photo? And also specify what country you are in. ChatGPT and the like are useless for this as they don’t have enough information such as location and size.

Hmm, if you are in the uk perhaps a dusky cockroach (Ectobius lapponicus) with an egg case? They are harmless like all our native cockroaches as they prefer to live outdoors.