Bug ID?

[Erby]

Anybody have an idea of what type of bug this is? (Besides Ugly!)

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[Scottpat]

June bug? They come out at night.

[John Kogel]

25,000 species of beetles in NA and you had to pick that one?

I don't know. []

[kurt]

Where'd you find it, when, in what material, etc.....?

[Jim Katen]

Size?

[kurt]

Was it in your pants?

[Erby]

Yeah, I thought about the size and where thing as I drove away from the house.

Here it tis, next to the point of a pen.

It was in the house at the base of a wall, several of them.

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And no, Kurt, it wasn't in my pants.

[Scottpat]

Well, that's not a June Bug! The first photo made it look like a Godzilla bug!

[hoosier inspector]

Drug store beetle, or in your area maybe a tobacco beetle

[Erby]

Yeah, it did, Scott. Sorry about that. The macro setting on the Pentax WG-4 can really get in there if you want it to.

I think Robert's answer is about as close as I'm going to get. Though it also brought up "Confused Flour Beetle".

[Bill Kibbel]

Cigarette beetle. Very common in Virginia when I lived there.

We discussed this same bug here 4-5 years ago.

[Jerry Simon]

We discussed this same bug here 4-5 years ago.

I doubt that; their lifespans typically run a max of 90 days. . .

[Erby]

Smart ass in every crowd, isn't there!

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[Marc]

They smoke?

Marc

[Greg Booth]

They smoke?

Marc

........well sure - that's why their life span is only 90 days