In my windowsill. That’s the only place they live. They look exactly like tiny little seeds. That’s what I thought they were at first, but then they started crawling around when I disturbed them. They mostly don’t seem to move at all.
I remove them periodically and throw them out, but they always come back after a while. Well, presumably not the same ones, but new ones appear. There’s about a spoonful worth of them at a time. There aren’t any in my pantry or anywhere else in the apartment, they just hang out in that one place.
Any guesses for what they are? Anything I need to worry about? They don’t really bother me, but it seems a bit weird that they keep coming back.
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cigar beetles
carpet beetles
verigated carpet beetles
Do they fly? You said they’re not in your pantry, I assume you checked the grains…check the sweet stuff, when I had them (I’ll find that link), I found a lot more of them in things like chocolate than pasta. If you have any chocolate bars, chocolate chips, bowls of candy… check that.
I’ll have to see if the links to my videos and pictures still work.
I showed the picture to an Orkin guy I know, he’s the one that mentioned either Cigar Beetles (I’m not sure if that’s a reference to the shape or them liking or traveling with tobacco) or a ‘stored product pest’ which seems to be code for ‘you brought it in with something, it didn’t come in on it’s own’ and sort of left it at that.
Mine looked like a brown carpet beetle, but never ruined anything. I think the Orkin guy was right, just some kind of ‘stored product pest’ and when I cleaned out my pantry (they were in some of the grains as well as the chocolate) it more or less cleared up.
Yeah, sorry, I should have included one in the OP. I’m having a hard time getting a good pic, though. They’re really tiny bugs, and I just have my crappy phone camera.
Best I could do: Behold, bugs. The USB connector is for size comparison.
The topmost bug is on his back, I think I flipped him over pushing him into frame. They were all trying to run away, silly little buggers. As I said, they mostly don’t move, but when I try to make them pose for a picture, of course they don’t want to cooperate.
