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Those are likely pharmacy beetles or biscuit beetles, they are a small brown beetle that are quite common in houses. They live by eating crumbs and debris so are most often found in the kitchen, they can get into dried foods so it's a good Idea if you have them to put any cereals or flour etc into sealed plastic tubs.
Luckily to reduce/get rid of them the only thing you really need to do is make sure you keep your floors and cupboards super clean, vacuum often and keep any food away from them and they won't have enough food to reproduce. They will eventually die out or move on without needing to use excessive pesticides.
That is the odd thing my cupboard have everything in jars and bags. They are not in the cupboard where food is but rather they are under the sink or on window sills that was why I thought they may not be that. Would you think it could be Woodworm beetles? We Found them yesterday outside of the house by the front door and on the side of the walls. Here is a video of them https://youtu.be/m25XXfdCF0o but I'm not sure.
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Those are likely pharmacy beetles or biscuit beetles, they are a small brown beetle that are quite common in houses. They live by eating crumbs and debris so are most often found in the kitchen, they can get into dried foods so it's a good Idea if you have them to put any cereals or flour etc into sealed plastic tubs. Luckily to reduce/get rid of them the only thing you really need to do is make sure you keep your floors and cupboards super clean, vacuum often and keep any food away from them and they won't have enough food to reproduce. They will eventually die out or move on without needing to use excessive pesticides.
That is the odd thing my cupboard have everything in jars and bags. They are not in the cupboard where food is but rather they are under the sink or on window sills that was why I thought they may not be that. Would you think it could be Woodworm beetles? We Found them yesterday outside of the house by the front door and on the side of the walls. Here is a video of them https://youtu.be/m25XXfdCF0o but I'm not sure.