Can anyone please identify this? That’s a teaspoon in photo for perspective. I live in south of England.
I’m finding little black mites in my kitchen. They are fast. I moved into my flat in August and they were in kitchen, but disappeared over winter. They reappeared in April.
I find them around my sink and on kitchen surfaces, and inside my wooden chopping board and crawling on plastic chopping board in the cupboard. They disappear under the kitchen tiles on the wall and into the lining around the sink.
Once they were in my bathroom (in the bath) and a couple of times in my living room (crawling up wall and over table)
I keep all my food in Tupperware.
Not sure if I brought them with me in my things when I moved in or if they were already here. I was a lodger before and remember seeing a couple of mites in my flat mates cupboard. Perhaps they got into my things and came with me.
I assumed they were weevils but I wouldn’t expect them in the lounge. They are fast whenever I go near them. I’ve not actually seen them near a food source yet. Unless there’s traces of food on chopping board. I don’t have a dishwasher. I don’t leave food out and I wipe down surfaces often, but I don’t use strong chemical cleaning products. Google says either booklice or carpet beetles or weevils but they don’t seem a match. Mine are not in food and they are black. Sometimes there are smaller one too, perhaps the babies. Thank you