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Found near my bed, please help! - Gibbium aequinoctiale

Found near my bed, please help! - Gibbium aequinoctiale
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 26, 2015
Size: 2.5mm
I found a bedbug a few weeks ago, so I put bedbug traps under my bedlegs. I found two of these in the bug traps, dead (not sure if they starved or if they got Diatomaceous Earth I had spread on them). I took some photos under a weak microscope at about 20-40x. They look a little like fleas to me, but their hairy legs aren't tucked under them, and their backs are smooth and shiny, rather than scaled and hairy... Are they a younger stage of bed bug or flea? or something else? Thank you so much for your thoughts!

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Found near my bed, please help! - Gibbium aequinoctiale Found near my bed, please help! - Gibbium aequinoctiale Found near my bed, please help! - Gibbium aequinoctiale

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Wow! thanks!
That was so fast! Interesting - I live in an old apartment building... I guess I need to be more careful about crumbs... It seems like these are pretty benign / don't really affect people? Thanks so much for your help!

 
also
not that it matters, they are so similar, but any reason why you don't think it is an american spider beetle? http://www.frontlinepest.com/library/pantry-pests/american-spider-beetle/

 
Probably the same.
It's not at all uncommon for one species to have multiple common names.

 
ah ok
thanks again!

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