Please ID this specimin for me. 2 pix (macro), includes metric scale.

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Please ID this specimin for me. 2 pix (macro), includes metric scale.

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onemorething

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Posted 1 year ago
Wed Mar 21 2012 11:06:29
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Expert, please ID for me? Top and side view, macro. So far I have only bites, this is the first physical evidence I have seen. I'm trying to not get too freaked out but it is really scary nonetheless. The dogs are coming tomorrow, hopefully they will find the nest(s).

http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/1621/168834081462597702613323436035BJCYGKcMMb1no5QUeUC.JPG

http://www.picvalley.net/v.php?p=u/1631/2912083219276261332343741dtqUuhNuxjfG9BNMTk1b.JPG

I crushed him a bit to immobilize him so the posture is bad, and the top view looks like an extra leg because the back one got folded, but he was still alive when I took these so he's good and fresh. The scale included is in millimeters.

Thank-you so much!

Reason for edit: moved the pix over to picvalley.net so that I don't have to leave them up on flickr. Please watch for word-wrap with the long URL
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Posted 1 year ago
Wed Mar 21 2012 11:46:14
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Hi,

100% not bedbug.

Most likely roach nymphs.

David Cain
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onemorething

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Wed Mar 21 2012 11:58:57
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David! I've never been so happy to know that the roaches are back! I did not want to say earlier that I caught this fella in the kitchen because I wanted a blind ID, but am I ever glad that that it is a roach.

I can still harbour the fantasy that I got my bites from somewhere else. Still no physical evidence....

Thank-you again for sharing your expertise so generously!
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Posted 1 year ago
Wed Mar 21 2012 13:07:40
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Yes, definitely cockroach nymphs.
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Wed Mar 21 2012 14:38:14
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Nice shots. The antennae gave them away as "not bed bugs". BB have short antennae with four segments.
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Wed Mar 21 2012 16:19:19
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Yes, also head, legs and (if a rear view) cerci differentiate the bed bugs from the cockroaches.