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indoor beetle - Phymatodes testaceus
Copyright © 2013 BobMartha

indoor beetle - Phymatodes testaceus
Door County, Wisconsin, USA
February 26, 2013
Several of these beetles seen in the house in the last few weeks - after the first significant snow fall. Martha thinks they are coming from the firewood.
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Contributed by BobMartha on 27 February, 2013 - 9:59am

neat pic! cropped it for the guide
Martha is right: this Eurasian beetle commonly shows up in US homes, brought inside with imported firewood

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 27 February, 2013 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

Cerambycid
I would say Phymatodes testaceus
http://bugguide.net/node/view/603913/bgimage
… Lawrence Barringer, 27 February, 2013 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

 
sure is
easy way to provide links to BG pages is using the [thumb:xxxx] or [cite:xxxx] format, where xxxx = image or page #.
in this case this will turn into

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… v belov, 27 February, 2013 - 10:45am login or register to post comments

 
indoor beetle
thanks, everybody -
… BobMartha, 27 February, 2013 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

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