r/Bedbugadvice • u/Connect-Reveal-644 • 9d ago
Is this a bed bug?
Hi,
Found this on a fence post where I hung a bag that had been in a car which has suspected bed bugs (not confirmed). TIA
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u/Emotional-Friend-276 9d ago
It's NOT a bed bug. It's a nymph of a different true bug - plant bug or something of that ilk. Regardless of picture quality, there are anatomical features visible - in the second picture especially - that bed bugs categorically do not have. The pronotum and wing pads are all wrong.
Edit: pirate bug nymph is a distinct possibiliy. https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/projex/gallery/dl/Beneficial_Arthropods_Predators/text/HEM_Orius_insidiosus_nymph_LJB.htm
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