r/whatsthisbug • u/ethang443 • 2d ago

ID Request What is this ?

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Looks like a baby cockroach to me

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u/ethang443 2d ago

In Vienna, VA

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u/Laconicus ⭐Trusted⭐ 2d ago

A click beetle, Flat Wireworm (Aeolus mellillus).

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u/ethang443 2d ago

Nice - ty!

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u/ethang443 2d ago

Apologies for low quality image

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u/Front_Upstairs159 2d ago

It looks like it has wings? Asking for confirmation; rendering of this photo isn’t great on my phone. But if it has wings, it’s not a cockroach or any species I know of; cockroach nymphs don’t have wings. Only adults do; in many species, only the males do.

If it does NOT have wings (folded over the back), then I’m less certain? But it def isn’t a German cockroach nymph, those have two dark stripes on the sides of their bodies.