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20.03.2023 19:18, kumeyshin

Can you tell me what kind of small white beetle in the photo got in the apartment?
New building, we live for half a year. the apartment is on the middle floor. The cleanliness is perfect. Lives a cat, without a walk. I began to notice small white, white-brown beetles, the size of a speck of dust less than a millimeter. They like to climb on black surfaces, especially on the screen of a cell phone, laptop, or tablet. I watch on the couch, bedside tables.
Closer to night, it is worth turning on the light, they begin to actively crawl. They don't seem to bite. I didn't find any bite marks on myself or my family.
What kind of animal can it be and how to get rid of it ?
Maybe it's small beetles or more like a gamaza mite?
There is a video
Video
or just a link
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LqMhUJrRWhs

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05.06.2023 12:22, excellens

Can you tell me what kind of small white beetle in the photo got in the apartment?
New building, we live for half a year. the apartment is on the middle floor. The cleanliness is perfect. Lives a cat, without a walk. I began to notice small white, white-brown beetles, the size of a speck of dust less than a millimeter. They like to climb on black surfaces, especially on the screen of a cell phone, laptop, or tablet. I watch on the couch, bedside tables.
Closer to night, it is worth turning on the light, they begin to actively crawl. They don't seem to bite. I didn't find any bite marks on myself or my family.
What kind of animal can it be and how to get rid of it ?
Maybe it's small beetles or more like a gamaza mite?
There is a video
Video
or just a link
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LqMhUJrRWhs

This is definitely a tick, most likely a predatory gamazov, they are not dangerous for humans.

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06.08.2023 14:07, ИНО

Yes, predators eat a person-only on the road (this is not counting protective bites). And the cicadas are also not averse to eating blood from hunger, and they prick much more sickly than mosquitoes. Even a hungry grasshopper, perched on a finger, sometimes begins to nibble on the skin with an appetite, and will undoubtedly gnaw it if left unchecked. But, of course, in terms of health consequences, all this is nonsense, unless there is an allergy (not to anything, but to the saliva of a particular insect). But in Latin America, the situation with blood-sucking carnivores (kiss beetles) is much more dangerous, they have mostly switched to feeding on vertebrate blood, so they also cover the victim with trypanosomes.

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27.09.2023 14:46, talide8

ENO, thank you so much! I read about nogohvostku, I understand correctly that they often live in plants?
But the fact that Dorypteryx domestica does not jump is strange. When I move my finger closer, they seem to bounce a little, so I decided that this is a jump.
And about the mold and dampness, I'm at a loss. I don't know where I got it from or where. The house is a new building in 2021, my repair is a little more than a year old, so that the water leaks somewhere - there is no such thing.
Can I bring them with my things, for example? I recently visited a relative for some time, and she just had a flood and dampness in her apartment, so she lived with me while she solved housing issues. Or can they come running from the neighbors?
I will buy a hygrometer, measure the humidity.
Yes, there are a lot of horror stories on the Internet. But I do not plan to get rid of these insects by cardinal methods, it seems that there are not many of them. I'll check the humidity in the apartment, of course. And I wouldn't have noticed them if I hadn't started looking at every speck and dot, because there was a rumor that someone in our house had bedbugs. At first I thought they were little bedbugs, and I was really scared. But I'm calmer now.
Thank you again for your help!

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27.09.2023 21:31, talide8

Maybe not a bedbug, but maybe a bedbug (color and build are suitable). But to determine it, you need to re-photograph at least as high-quality as the hay eaters.

Legtails feed mainly on mold and can live wherever it grows. Not necessarily on plants. By jumping, I mean moving due to a sharp repulsion from the substrate through the air space for a distance of an order of magnitude or more exceeding the length of the body. To do this, you need a specialized jumping device (in the case of legtails - a fork). Hay eaters don't have that. And so, almost any insect can jump back slightly with the help of ordinary walking legs.

Thank you for your answers!
And the bug, which may not be a bug - someone else's, not mine (which can not but please), so the photo is only one and such.