What are these tiny red beads in my house?

“These bugs have been in my apartment for about a month now. I’ve tried pouring bleach down the drains and covering them, putting out traps, deep cleaning my apartment, STEM brand spray all over the place (this kills them but they just seem to multiply!)”source ↗

“Please help, this is driving me insane!”source ↗

“Are these indeed mouse droppings and what is the best way to seal up this larger opening?”source ↗

“I found they are now climbing into the attic from where the soffit meets a chimney/exhaust flue (I think?).”source ↗

“Figure it is beyond steel wool and expanding foam technique I was using for lower down spots.”source ↗

“Living in a horribly built new build home, so nothing will surprise me at this point. Our neighbors all have rodent issues in their attics. I was looking around the outside of the house and noticed this. It looks like a claw so do we think our brilliant trades painted and stuccoed over this potential creature 😂🤦🏻‍♀️”source ↗

“Is this mouse poop I broke it open with my fingernail see second pic no smell idk please help im freaking out.”source ↗

“these were VERY small but noticeable around the base boards. Any ideas?”source ↗

“Currently battling with brown rats found a lot of white droppings in the container. Should I worry about something else?”source ↗

“I was cleaning my house and found these in a cluster by a baseboard. I have no other signs of rodents, and when I went to crush them (with gloves and a mask) to assess the texture, I literally cannot break them.”source ↗

“Hi all, i moved into a new apartment, and as i was unpacking i saw this, what is it and what does it mean for me?”source ↗

“What are these? I find them a lot everywhere in my room. Inside the bed box especially. Besides the bed here it's in the kitchen cabinets where some clothes where packed as it's attached my room. Can anyone tell me what's this that looks like mouse dropping but we don't have any mouse or cockroach?”source ↗

“Bought a new house and started moving stuff in, saw these in a few places in the basement. Still haven’t found any on the first floor”source ↗

“Found this on the wall in an upstairs bedroom this morning. Hoping I don’t have a reason to be concerned.”source ↗

“Drawer in new house? Please tell me it's just dust, seasonings, or something? 🙏🏾”source ↗

“Would this be a Springtail? Or perhaps a flea? I caught it on a piece of scotch tape and had my husband take pictures with his fancy microscope.”source ↗

“Found on my kitchen counter this morning. Clean, no food. Rubbery and pretty hardy. Thought it was a caterpillar at first and then spotted the second one 4 inches away”source ↗

“Found after being on vacation for three weeks. They‘re at several places in the apartment (kitchen, behind picture frames, bathroom). Please help!”source ↗

“Just found this bug in apartment and trying to ID.”source ↗

“This is the second one I’ve seen in 5 days. First one in the living room then this one on the stove.”source ↗

“I have been seeing these bugs at least once a day for the last couple weeks and I have no idea where they are coming from or how to get rid of them.”source ↗

“Please Identify this roach”source ↗

“Kitchen near fruit on counter”source ↗

“Found this guy under my couch. What the heck is it?”source ↗

“Been finding these small red beads at 2 places of the house and I'm worried it's Drywood termites.”source ↗

“I don't have the money for a full blown pest control.”source ↗

“I'd love know if anyone knows what these are coming from and what the cheapest solution is.”source ↗

“Can anyone positively identify? Think its some sort of beetle but not 100% what kind. Last pic for size reference, they are tiny! Any help is appreciated.”source ↗

“I’ve seen a few of these usually on linen fabric around our house. Is this a mosquito? Or other kind of bug or larva?”source ↗

“Keep finding these tiny bugs that are usually dead by the time I notice them. There’s so many in my bathroom and living room patio door mostly. I have cleaned my apartment but they keep appearing.”source ↗

“Does anybody know exactly what kind of bugs these are? Any home remedies to get rid of them? They appeared around May(?) I cleaned and didn’t see them for a bit but now they’re back”source ↗

“These tiny poops(about a grain of rice, army man for scale) keep reappearing in only this general spot, day and night, i have a big dog and they reappear whether shes outside or not, some even showed up INSIDE that orange HD pail… is it mice?”source ↗

“Estou na duvida se isso sao fezes de barata ou de rato.”source ↗

“today ive found this thing shown in the pictures and im not sure if its a carpet beetle larva or just a silverfish.”source ↗

“if its a carpet beetle larva, did i prevent from it getting worse or is it just the begining of the battle? could this be the only place where they hid or do they lay eggs wherever?”source ↗

“at first glance it looked like a silverfish but once i used flash on i began to second-guess myself.”source ↗

“I found these itty bitty brown spots around the baseboards. They are easy to wipe up, no holes anywhere, sometimes on the baseboards and sometimes on the floor near the baseboards.”source ↗

“Came home from vacation to this by the door in the kitchen that leads to the deck.”source ↗

“I’ve never had roaches before but have seen 2-3 of these by diff walls near windows recently. Is this a german or wood roach?”source ↗

“I've found one of these dark oval shapes on this ledge next to my sink.”source ↗

“At first I thought it was a large seed that blew in from somewhere but then I found a second one.”source ↗

“I'm just not sure”source ↗

“Found these little things on the inside of my shirt right before I went to shower. Trying to ID them to figure out any necessary course of action.”source ↗

“I'm nervous since I did bring back a piece of second hand clothing.”source ↗

“Anybody know what this is? Black top, light brown underbelly. I’ve seen younger versions of it too, they’re very thin, small and spindly.”source ↗

“Just took out my window unit air conditioner and there’s a pile of what looks like poop under it.”source ↗

“I know mice can climb but this one went up 20+ feet so I wanted to confirm this actually is a mouse.”source ↗

“It does have a pretty strong smell. Is that more like bat than mouse?”source ↗

“Ontario, Canada. Please tell me what these are 😭😭😭 have only seen 1 in my home during the daytime but it very obviously looks like a cockroach and I need to know what type (and what to do if anyone can tell me) immediately. It had wings.”source ↗

“Moved back a month ago, am now trying to get this room turned into our nursery but would like to figure out how to clean this or if there’s something we should look for.”source ↗

“Hello! I’ve recently been finding these bugs over my house, not that many of them that, but enough to get me worried. They seem to prefer my bathroom or kitchen. They seem scaly, and only about half a centimetre big.”source ↗

“Based on past redditors posts I am leaning towards this being from a visiting bat? We’ve never seen one in the 3 months we’ve been here, but when I poked a few with a stick they crumbled.”source ↗

“keep finding these small little bugs crawling around but it’s very one off - should I be concerned these are bed bugs or baby roaches??”source ↗

“I want to say it is Asian at first but if you found it on stove then I am leaning on germen”source ↗

“I think mouse poop but I have to know”source ↗

“Doing a deep clean and suddenly noticed these small bugs all over.”source ↗

“What are they and what are my next steps?”source ↗

“I have a wardrobe of vintage wool tailoring and dry mounts of insects, so I'm terrified of mites and moths, but I've never seen beetles like this before.”source ↗

“This has been in my garage since at least mid July. They are kind of hardened black flecks or a dark flinty color. The insulation is a bit disturbed, in several places and heights.”source ↗

“Unfortunately, my mother and I have discovered bastards like this and little nymphs only in one section of the kitchen recently.”source ↗

“Can anyone identify what kind of bug it is (sorry for poor photo, it was under a cabinet) and the best elimination way?”source ↗

“Hello, what type of roaches are these? I moved into an apartment and saw 2 or 3 identical to the first one in the same area.”source ↗

“Now these might all be the same species i honestly have no clue. Any help is appreciated.”source ↗

“I've been here for a little over a week”source ↗

“This was found near my oven. I have a bit of ocd about bugs so I really don’t know if I’m psyching myself out or if these are just crumbs, chocolate, whatever else”source ↗

“Went to turn on the gas in my outdoor heater and found this mass on the propane valve. We think it’s some kind of pest nest. Anybody know what I have here and how to deal with it?”source ↗

“Found four of these on our kitchen counter (no where else in the kitchen). Mostly all a similar size but notice pretty uniform lines across each of them”source ↗

“Hi all, we're having a problem with this bug where they're showing up very sporadically.”source ↗

“My gut says german cockroach nymph, but google has been giving me very mixed answers on it.”source ↗

“Any tips on how to get rid of it would be appreciated as well.”source ↗

“I was going to try to post video but it won’t let me!”source ↗

“I searched everywhere and didn’t find anything else. Could it really be a mouse dropping if it was just one and was perfectly smooth?”source ↗

“I tried to get a tissue and grab it but i lost it. I am freaking out.”source ↗

“i vacuumn before going to bed and woke up to that on the couch and toddler pants that left out but I've been finding this around the house for the past few days”source ↗

“Found these on my bed but not really sure if they’re actually mouse droppings. We had a mice problem previously but haven’t seen any mice activity in a while.”source ↗

“been suspecting fleas for about 2 weeks, jumped on it immediately vacuuming every day, sprayed the rugs/under couch cushions with virbac ES, flea collecting with monthly flea med from the vet.”source ↗

“Now I’m seeing something has started to eat through my shelf liners. Could that be from a roach or does it look like something a mouse would do?”source ↗

“Not sure if I should have the guy come back or how long it takes for the treatment to work.”source ↗

“I removed this floor a few months ago and vacuumed everything up. I came back to check on something a month later and noticed these piles along one exterior wall. This is in a half basement.”source ↗

“At the front and rear exterior door I saw similar issues and so many tiny little ants, where I tried Terror but ended up solving the problem with Advion. Is this the same thing? Should I be concerned?”source ↗

“just saw this on my windowsill, upstairs bedroom. haven’t seen any other signs of critters, but this one singular turd, looks old the underside was white. Looks like mouse poop to me, maybe half a centimeter long? i’ve only lived in this house for a couple months and this is my first critter encounter here, will be going out to get repellant just in case but how concerned should i be? do we agree this is mouse poop or could it be something else?”source ↗

“For more than a year these droppings are frequent in my bedroom on the same spot ONLY. I figured its cockroach droppings, and I applied Advion few months back to help kill them. The roaches were gone but the droppings still persist? Help, I really dont know what else to do😭”source ↗

“Yeah, i do have roach problem in my bedroom and i thought these were their droppings. I did apply Advion and it went away for weeks (also saw dead roaches). But now it's back again and so far all these times its always been at this one exact spot, never anywhere else.”source ↗

“Found some under the mattress and one in the living room.”source ↗

“help! is this a bed bug or a cockroach?”source ↗

“What could it be and how can I sort it if its the cat kibble under the floorboards which is attracting them?”source ↗

“So my sister moved out and whilst I was cleaning up her wardrobe I kept on finding these little bugs. Sometimes I'd find empty shells, and they were within the clothing. It seems one side of the room only is contaminated. I think they're attracted to wood or sth.”source ↗

“Am I supposed to throw away the wardrobe ??? I'd wholeheartedly do it.”source ↗

“So yes, what are these ? How do I eliminate them ?”source ↗

“I opened a box of contact solution last last and inside the box was small black pellets.”source ↗

“I opened the three other boxes and two also had the same stuff in it.”source ↗

“Please help me identify them. :( First time homeowner and mom and im battling bugs and rodents!”source ↗

“Looks like some kind of roach, but it's TINY (about the size of a screw head).”source ↗

“I've had 3 live ones over the week. I've had to remove my cat's feeder from the room just in case. Pretty freaked out.”source ↗

“What’s confusing me is the brown bits don’t look like rat or mouse droppings.”source ↗

“Found this on the outside of my house and having a hard time telling if wasp or termite.”source ↗

“Thank you I’m just very confused as I have itchy spots/ bites on different parts of my body and these are the only things that have been in my bed and bothering me.”source ↗

“I fear the worst.”source ↗

“We purchased a 1960s townhome recently and upon moving in, have discovered 3 of these…two of them have been dead, one was alive.”source ↗

“I’m assuming it’s an American roach but I’m not sure. I’ve been scouring this sub looking for help identifying and also help figuring out how to address this issue.”source ↗

“Are these animal droppings, and if so, can someone ID so I can notify my landlord?”source ↗

“these look too small for squirrel droppings (about the size of a grain of rice).”source ↗

“am i gonna get hantavirus and die?”source ↗

“found on my cast iron pan just now. the other pots and pans on the burner are clear of anything.”source ↗

“checked around the kitchen, under the sink, and no signs of anything else. could these be roach droppings?”source ↗

“hoping someone could ID this for me.”source ↗

“I've seen it on the ceiling, but I've also seen a lot of it in the kitchen drawer on wooden tools.”source ↗

“I was cleaning behind my stove and found this. I can't recall cooking anything like this except maybe a red pepper. Is this a cockroach egg?”source ↗

“at first i was scared as hell that this was rat/mouse feces, but then i saw those separated white ends and immediately thought “lizard” because i do get a lot of them indoors and i DO live in florida so a lizard in the crib is inevitable… thoughts? 👀”source ↗

“Lovely. Are they as hard to get rid of as German roaches? I haven’t seen any anywhere so I have no idea where they could be!”source ↗

“What treatments do you recommend?”source ↗

“I saw one of these yesterday while I was eating, too, it seemed to be going for my food.”source ↗

“I just set a trap for and killed like three dozen of them yesterday (left some bananas out for too long haha).”source ↗

“I had them bad at one point, so I made some vinegar traps and got a bin with a big lid that shuts from the top.”source ↗

“They look about the size of grains of rice and have cracks and perforations on them too. Are they some kind of dropping? Eggs, larva? Any input is appreciated.”source ↗

“i found these underneath my sink where i keep extra grocery bags. i am pretty sure it’s not rat poop but i don’t know what else it could be.”source ↗

“I know the smaller grains are mice droppings but what are the larger ones? I’m praying it’s not rats, but I’m thinking it is unfortunately..”source ↗

“I recognize the mouse poop at the bottom of the first pic, but I've never seen the other kind.”source ↗

“Anyone know what kind of animal this is from?”source ↗

“Found in bed. Felt hard solid(didn’t push too much). Not hollow.”source ↗

“I am very scared this could be from a roach.”source ↗

“He’s less thank a mm and black to the naked eye”source ↗

“Keep finding next to sink. When I went looking around I found them in outside the windows next to the sink.”source ↗

“This appears to me to be a dropping, but it's in a silverware drawer that doesn't appear to have any holes in it at all, not even something small enough for an ant to get through. No food is kept in the drawer at all (only clean silverware). It's also the ONLY dropping (if that's what it is), and I would expect...more. So I'm sort of at a loss - anyone have any idea?”source ↗

“Never had problems like this. Is this a mouse or a rat??”source ↗

“Roaches are the only bug I really can’t deal with they’re so creepy!!”source ↗

“I really need help identifying these so I can call pest control, I’m very stressed because they aren’t bed bugs but I don’t know what they are.”source ↗

“My friends pillows had black mould on them and I didn’t have any of whatever these are before she slept over.”source ↗

“Assuming it’s a cockroach.”source ↗

“I don’t know WHY these just appeared in my BED of all places.”source ↗

“I’m in a second story apartment, is this an immediate call the office issue????”source ↗

“I've been finding this stuff under a window in my house, and really don't know what it is.”source ↗

“I've been seeing this off and on for a while. It's always in the same place. I vacuumed it up yesterday and it was back today. I'm pretty mystified. Is it from a bug? A rodent? Something weirder?”source ↗

“Any idea what insects these are? Should I get a professional or can I handle this solo? Or am I being nervous about nothing and should just clean things off with a swiffer or something?”source ↗

“This fine dark powder is forming in two spots between the top of the molding and the wall.”source ↗

“I haven't seen any insects in the area.”source ↗

“Dude. Obviously I'm not familiar with these things or I wouldn't be asking for help.”source ↗

“I just wanted some help exploring if it's them or something else. If it's mold I don't want to waste my time w the wasps. If I need to call a pro, I'd rather start with the right one!”source ↗

“before I got into bed i noticed this black speck on my pillowcase.”source ↗