# What bug is this?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 25, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157 "2005-03-25T04:46:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/1 "2005-03-25T04:46:34Z")
From my admittedly weak description. Found it in my house.
It’s about the size of the head of a pin. Oval boy shape. Black with white or grey stripes. I kind of crushed it in the killing process so I don’t have a picture or a good description of legs.
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/2 "2005-03-25T05:00:32Z")
A black ladybug?
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/3 "2005-03-25T05:08:54Z")
Could it be one of [the little guys on the right](http://ccvipmp.ucdavis.edu/insects/beneficial.html) here?
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/4 "2005-03-25T05:17:52Z")
Curious myself. Not matching any of the links. Mine were medium brown with white or off-white body marks. They were around for a few days, and now gone.
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/5 "2005-03-25T08:47:13Z")
> [@Mullinator](#):
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> From my admittedly weak description. Found it in my house.
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> It’s about the size of the head of a pin. Oval boy shape. Black with white or grey stripes. I kind of crushed it in the killing process so I don’t have a picture or a good description of legs.
>
> Any ideas?
It sounds like an oat bug. I couldn’t find a picture. They’re tinny tiny beetles.
maybe someone else will find a picture
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### Author:  [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/6 "2005-03-25T13:34:31Z")
Sounds like a [Carpet Beetle](http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/graphics1/variedcarpetbeetle.jpg). There are many varieties of them and they are everywhere, just rarely noticed.
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### Author:  [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/7 "2005-03-25T14:37:16Z")
> [@TwoTrouts](#):
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> Sounds like a [Carpet Beetle](http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/graphics1/variedcarpetbeetle.jpg). There are many varieties of them and they are everywhere, just rarely noticed.
Jinkies, **TwoTrouts** , that looks pretty darn close? At least I now have something to compare it to. Thanks a bundle everybody.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-bug-is-this/296157/8 "2005-03-25T16:31:17Z")
When I saw “head of a pin” in the OP I immediately thought “carpet beetles.” I frequently see them or their icky-looking bristly brown larvae in my home.