Help identifying a bug please!

[joelio]

Hi everyone,

I've joined this forum after seeing how helpful and knowledgeable its members are about all sorts of wildlife! I was hoping you'd be able to help me identify a bug. I've uploaded a photo of it on flickr with a ballpoint of a pen next to it to help scale its size which can be found at the bottom of the post.

A bit of info on where i've found them:

1) In my bedroom - they stand out on my white sheets and walls (see the pic for their colour)
2) they're relatively slow moving
3) never found more than one or so of them

I had a massive clear out of my room the other day, so really not sure where they could be coming from!!!

Does anyone know what they are/if they're harmful and how to get rid of them?

I've been trawling the insect photos but haven't been able to find the bug in question!

Thanks in advance!

Joel

[basquesteve]

Hi

It appears to be one of the Weevils I can not say which one. Sorry

Steve

This site can be helpfulhttp://www.kerbtier.de/cgi-bin/enXIdentify.cgi

[theresa dockery]

Looks like one of the wood-boring weevils...perhaps Euophryum confine (an introduced species) or Pentarthrum huttoni...?

Hopefully an expert will be along soon & provide a more accurate ID.

As to getting rid of them: are you able to find any holes in wooden furniture/floorboards etc (from which they emerged)? I think they normally only attack wood which is already rotting/decayed.

[Klaas Reißmann]

Hi,

never seen this one before in my life and I would be very interrested to see it life and in colour. The first suggestion of Theresa seems to be right. But I really don't know.

Regards
Klaas

P.S.: Maybe I shouldn't say this, but what a beauty!

[Jason Green]

Morning Joe, and welcome to WAB!

It's a Weevil as suggested. The species is Euphryum confine - (if the rostrum is constricted basally, which I think it is) a pest species that was introduced from New Zealand.

I've seen them myself, always in ones and scarce at that.

Take care,

Jason