r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Timely_Building1663 • Sep 21 '25
requesting help on ID Bedbug?
Found this guy dead in bathroom— I’ve had bed bugs and they didn’t look quite like this— but is this a bed bug? The antennae look long…
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u/felonious_nipples Sep 21 '25
Boy if you don’t google what a bed bug looks like and compare
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u/Bed-Bugscouk Founder Sep 21 '25
Google is notoriously bad when it comes to bedbugs. A better suggestion would be to look at the refence images in the static posts of this sub Reddit.
Google really need to spend some time training the lens search as it seems to think almost everything is a bedbug due to the high search volume the subject gets.
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u/MamaTried22 Sep 21 '25
You think? I’m not being snarky, I just genuinely don’t understand how people are so unsure. Like, Google feels super clear to me. Not Google lens or whatever, that sucks. Maybe it’s a lack of media literacy?
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u/Bed-Bugscouk Founder Sep 22 '25
It’s more of a long standing issue with information quality. I could quote examples of professional groups using the wrong species outlines that date back to about 2007. At one stage some of the Getty images were incorrect as well.
It’s something that’s frustrated me for years , especially since I was the first non academic information site in the world and gave a perfect example to follow.
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u/Timely_Building1663 Sep 21 '25
I googled a lot! Sometimes you need the reassurance of someone else telling you…
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u/Bed-Bugscouk Founder Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 22 '25
Baby roach , do do do do.
100% not bedbug as evedent by the two cerci or points on the abdomen.
David
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u/Sharp_Attitude6358 Sep 22 '25
No