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   Mon Oct 18 2010 19:51:04
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   I just found this stuck to the tape of a box of old books. Please ID. Thanks again.

   http://www.flickr.com/photos/53882211@N08/5095232720/
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/53882211@N08/5095230602/
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/53882211@N08/5095228386/

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   Mon Oct 18 2010 20:40:08
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   Very "bedbug looking ", but not a BB.
   It's a Dermestid beetle, Thylodrias contractus.

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   Mon Oct 18 2010 20:42:23
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   OMG EffeCi,
   You gave me a heart attack with the first sentence. lol. Thanks so much. Hugs, Kisses, Hugs, Kisses!!!!!

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   Mon Oct 18 2010 21:38:51
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   Franco do you have some better photo's of an Odd Beetle?

   I thought that may be one but didn't have time to look it over but had strong BB doubts.

   Lou first identified one but I haven't seen a great photo. Seems it is the best cimex doppelganger out there.

   Wonder how many folks would guess that wrong?

   Jim

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   Mon Oct 18 2010 22:11:58
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   here's a pic Jim.

   I am having heart failure right now. please please be an odd beetle

   http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/imgs/128x192/1111_1111/2222/0827.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query%3Fseq_num%3D195566%26one%3DT&h=192&w=117&sz=25&tbnid=fK1WglcwfDMALM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=63&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dodd%2Bbeetle&zoom=1&q=odd+beetle&usg=__BTO1BB6E6F_9RyIQBnOlfq-rZGM=&sa=X&ei=K_68TNGSHYOClAfujK3PDQ&ved=0CBoQ9QEwAg

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   Mon Oct 18 2010 22:17:07
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   Yours is an odd beetle so relax. It is just that they look similar enough to throw people.

   When a pic was posted before Lou called it and nobugs and I were surprised how similar it looked at first glance or in bad shape.

   Jim

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   Mon Oct 18 2010 22:25:35
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   Thanks. I was removing boxes that we have dvds and old books and was feeling ok, but I just saw a box that looks that it may have cast skins on it and fecal matter. I am literally having a heart attack now.

   Glad that the above posted dead bug is an odd beetle and that the other bugs I found also stuck on the packing tape were book lice.

   what I just discovered on another box is not on the tape but on the box and I am just dying right now.

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   Tue Oct 19 2010 1:47:20
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   Franco is a rock star!

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   Tue Oct 19 2010 2:53:06
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   Yes! Franco rocks!!!

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