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Identification - please help (CLEAR PHOTOS)
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Hello,
I'm sure you must get sick of these questions, but I was hoping someone could please help me identify if the bug in the photos below is a bed bug. I know that my landlord recently sprayed another apartment in my building, but he didn't tell me what it was for.
I'm hoping I'm wrong and this is not a bed bug!
Thank you - I TRULY appreciate your help.
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/1103/img3296m.jpg
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5910/img3298u.jpg
Please let me know if you need any other information to help ID...
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that is a pill bug; or known as the rolly polly!!
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THANK YOU!
I wish I could stop being so paranoid!
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Louise
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Posted 1 month ago
Thu Oct 22 2009 14:05:56
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Also known as a wood louse.
Such friendly little creatures! We have lots of them outside, and end up with quite a number inside during the winter. We've kept them as "pets" a couple of times as well...
They're a *lot* more fun than bedbugs.
(But then they're not actually bugs...)
Louise
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spideyjg
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Posted 1 month ago
Thu Oct 22 2009 14:26:38
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Hey Louise,
Did Dr. Sorkin ever ID your mystery bug?
Jim
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Louise
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Posted 4 weeks ago
Thu Oct 22 2009 18:24:54
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I sent it to him, but I haven't heard anything yet. I'm hoping he received it; I'm also sure he must be pretty busy, and I don't want to nag him since he's the one doing me the favor.
I *did* see a tiny, very shiny round, reddish-brown bug in our bedroom (two floors up) this week, but as I went to grab a piece of tape a few feet away, I released the edge of the cushion (upon which it was crawling) a little too suddenly and flung it into the nether regions of my bedroom. I was immediately convinced that it *must* have been a bedbug and proceeded to vacuum under and around my bed (nylon stocking in place, of course). I never located it again. Sigh.
I eventually calmed down. It *could* have been a bedbug, yes, but it was much shinier than any of the batbugs I came across at the cabin, and if it was a bedbug (or batbug), then it was awfully tiny to be so far away from the bed, I think, and yet still so red (that cushion hasn't been on the bed for months).
So I'm still checking beds, but at this point no one has any itchiness or bite marks. Not that that's a guarantee of anything, of course...
Louise
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also known as a sow bug, they actually arent insects at all but actually a crustacean (think crab, lobster, shrimp, etc)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse
If you have a lot of them i'd check for sources of moisture, etc.
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