What is this and why is it in my house?

The cats alerted me to a weird looking beetle in my house last night. A search of the internet hasn’t turned up much.

Worried it’s some kind of wood boring beetle and i’m about to be infested with woodworm.

Bowel Weevil. Always in pairs…..where is the other one?

It won’t be a wood boring beetle – they hatch in the spring/summer. In the unlikely event that a wood boring beetle has turned from worm to beetle out of season it won’t have a partner to mate with and therefore no eggs will be laid and no worms will be getting into your wood.

Hopefully someone will know what it actually is!

Did/do you have a live Xmas tree in a pot?
Soil warms in the house and the critters emerge to join in the Xmas spirit.

This is not a beetle or weevil at all, so no worries about wood boring or anything like that. It’s one of the true bugs, probably from the family heteroptera and is most likely a plant feeding insect over-wintering as an adult. Nothing to worry about!

Bowel Weevil. Always in pairs…..where is the other one?

The other one’ll be much bigger.

That’s the lesser of two weevils.

Good knowledge all!

That’s the lesser of two weevils.

I have nothing to add, I just want to bask in the reflected glory of this sentence.

Bravo, PP! Nice set-up by Rubber_Buccaneer.

I agree with spartaniv- it’s not a Coleoptera and looks like Hemiptera.

Bravo, PP

Not me, Russell Crowe – Master and Commander innit.

OP, did you have a Christmas tree? I think that may be a Western Conifer Seed Bug – Leptoglossus occidentalis (other Coreidae are available – enchantingly known as squashbugs).

We do have a xmas tree.

Good skills – I tihnk it’s the western conifer seed bug – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_conifer_seed_bug

Impressed.

It did release a smell i tihnk too, when i ****ted it.

The other one’ll be much bigger.

That’s the lesser of two weevils.

Brilliant Perchy… 😀

Bravo!

perchypanther is Tim Vine and I claim my £5….

my Christmas tree came with loads of ladybirds, mainly dead ones and the others didn’t survive in their new hostile environment

Would you mind reporting this to the RHS for bio security please? I work in a forestry nursery and these beetles can cause a lot of damage to our future stock, which means more work and less riding!
http://www.brc.ac.uk/risc/western_conifer.php

Not me, Russell Crowe

Credit should actually go to Patrick O’Brien, who wrote it in the book the film was based on.

Would you mind reporting this to the RHS for bio security please? I work in a forestry nursery and these beetles can cause a lot of damage to our future stock, which means more work and less riding!

Done!

A man who would pun would pick a pocket