Can you name this beetle?

ELW · #1 (**permalink**) 27-01-2011, 02:19 PM

We have been finding these beetles all over our flat for some time now, I have tried and failed many times to try and identify them. They're about 1.5cm long and at first look black but a closer look shows a grey tinge!
-Would mostly like to identify them so I know what they're doing in our flat, we always find them in the kitchen and on a rare occasions we found 1 in a bed!

HELP please

Dogghound · #2 (**permalink**) 27-01-2011, 02:27 PM

Looks like one of the Dermestes species D. maculatus perhaps.

ELW · #3 (**permalink**) 27-01-2011, 03:09 PM

Yeah I have had a look and they do look very similar, also answers the small wriggly things we've noticed in the bathroom (probably the grub.)
What would attract them in to a house though?
Some descriptions say they feed on dead things, and we do live literally next to a graveyard :S