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blackish small beetle with spots (Sap or Picnic beetle)

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Beetle
by: Moni

South Dakota
Send a photo of your beetle!

You probably do not have the picnic beetle...it is probably a dermestid beetle...like the larder beetle if it is not on fruit. But you need to send a photo if you want more info on the insect you have questions about so we can identify it properly. :-)
blackish small beetle with spots
by: Anonymous

This seems to be the beetle I am finding in my house in South Dakota. They are not in my food..but sort of wander on the counter once in awhile and I found 3 dead ones up high in cupboards that are hardly ever used. Any one have any other input on them? They move rather slowly and don't appear to be too interested in anything.I do have a deck where I feed the birds and perhaps they like the seed out there and wander in but I would think I would find them somewhere other than the kitchen if that were the case.J
Sap or Picnic beetle
by: Moni

James
You have a sap beetle that is also called a picnic beetle since they show up at picnics to taste the fruits and sweet things that are available!
Sap beetles(family Nitidulidae) are commonly found in berries and other decaying fruit in the gardens in the fall.
These beetles overwinter as adults in protected places in debris or compost type piles. In spring, picnic beetle adults come out of hibernation and lay eggs in April and continues in May and June. Larvae develop in rotten food materials that are in contact with the soil. Full-grown larvae leave their food when mature and change to the pupa stage. Adults then emerge in June and July. There is usually only one generation per year.
Best control is to keep food materials away from the house and cover food at picnics!

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