I was lying awake last night and felt something crawling on my skin. I caught the insect and took pictures of it, one of which can be found here (JPG file). For scale, I placed a one cent coin of the euro next to it; those have a diameter of 16.25 mm (about 0.64 inches), i.e., they’re a bit smaller than the American pennies.
What insect would this be? My fear is that it could be a bedbug, with all the ghastly consequences this could have. It doesn’t look to me too similar to the photos of bedbugs I have googled, but I’m certainly no expert.
Luckily it’s not a Brown Marmorated Stink Bug. Where are you located? The picture resembles a common beetle here in southern New England, not destructive I think. I can’t recall the name and there are plenty of similar looking bugs but with your general location it may be easier to identify.
That probably got lost when I captured the little fellow. I didn’t intentionally hurt it, but I did grab it with my fingers in the middle of the night in a dark bedroom.
