brown beetle

shaun ayres · #1 (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 08:39 PM

hi everyone

this is a first for me so please be patiant. we have found a large amount of small brown beetles in our home but i cant find any pictures on the ne that look the same. it looks like a Biscuit beetle but i cant see any legs or antena. when i touch them they act dead they have a slighly lighter head than body. i cant take a photo of them as they are to small 2mm max. they have a split down the back and a rounded body. we first found them in our spice box there was lava in there and i have found some mateing or doing the conger. i am in basingstoke so if anyone is close i could catch some up to show. please email me if you have any idear what they are and how to get rid.

thank you in advance for the help.
regards shaun

Rossco · #2 (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 09:36 PM

Sounds like furniture beetles (Anobium punctatum) from what you've said. Take a look at some pics on the web. If this isn't right, try and post some photos. Were the larvae living in the wood or free in the spice box?

If they turn out to be a wood-boring beetle and they're only in the spice box, then I wouldn't worry, but if you find them in other places you could think about treatment. There are lots of commercial products on the market, but you would need to find the extent of the problem before you thought about using any of these.

Let us know what you find.

shaun ayres · #3 (**permalink**) 23-09-2009, 04:34 PM

hi thanks for your reply i have looked at both pics and i think they look closer to the buiscuit beetle but would i treat both the same.
shaun

but beetles are cool though funny how you can get intrested in somthing thats such a pain in te ass.

Rossco · #4 (**permalink**) 24-09-2009, 07:28 AM

Depends where you are finding them, but the active treatments in most commercial liquids and dusts are the same. Unless they're in structural timbers or in some favourite furniture, I'd leave them alone.

shaun ayres · #5 (**permalink**) 24-09-2009, 07:59 AM

at the moment they are wandering around the ceiling wall corners near where we first found them but have now found some around the house and wife is starting to get on my back. could you recomend a good product kill it. the beetle not the wife um yes thats right.

Rossco · #6 (**permalink**) 24-09-2009, 08:33 AM

There are lots of products out there, but I'd really need to see a photo of the beetle or better still, a specimen. If you distract your wife for a couple of weeks, the beetles should disappear as the weather gets colder. Also, it would be good if you can identify exactly where they're coming from.

shaun ayres · #7 (**permalink**) 24-09-2009, 07:15 PM

hi bud

thanks for your help you sound like you love bugs! i can send you a sample if you would like so you can id them.
my email is
nic.ayres@virgin.net if you send address to me i could send them over but i cant take a photo as they come blury.
thanks
shaun