Bugs in workshop
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Bugs in workshop
Hello
I hope someone can help.
I have a bug problem in my workshop. It's a brick room, with wooden floors, and concrete underneath.
The bugs appear on the floor in the corner near the outside door. There are around 50 of them every morning. I brush them outside, but sure enough, the next morning there are another 50.
They're 3mm long, black, with wings. They do not move (some of them on closer inspection are upside-down, wriggling). However, they can fly, as some of them make their way onto shelves.
They are completely resistant to the all-purpose insecticide powder I put down.
Any idea what they are and how I can get rid of them?
Many thanks
I hope someone can help.
I have a bug problem in my workshop. It's a brick room, with wooden floors, and concrete underneath.
The bugs appear on the floor in the corner near the outside door. There are around 50 of them every morning. I brush them outside, but sure enough, the next morning there are another 50.
They're 3mm long, black, with wings. They do not move (some of them on closer inspection are upside-down, wriggling). However, they can fly, as some of them make their way onto shelves.
They are completely resistant to the all-purpose insecticide powder I put down.
Any idea what they are and how I can get rid of them?
Many thanks
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From the picture (hard to see) they look like earwigs.
They don't fly, but do climb very well.
They don't fly, but do climb very well.
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Do you see actual wings on them or are you assuming wings because they are on the shelf and how else could they get there? They could be an adult beetles emerging from wood above the shelf, such as the underside of the shelf above, from a wooden ceiling, wooden trim, etc. Look for pin-holes; they would be the emergence holes.