"Rod" wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in
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Are they more common in kitchens? That's where ours was.

Is your kitchen in your house?

If so, no.

Yes - pretty standard kitchen-like location - inside the house, in fact
just inside the back door.

Oh, like ours then. There's a coincidence.

So chances of finding one indoors at all = low.

Fairly. I've never seen one in our house, wherethe doors are more often than
not open and the garden is well populated with them. The house is more of a
menagerie than a human dwelling, come to think of it.

and, of the rooms to find one in, kitchen approx. = bathroom?

If your bathroom is on the first floor, like ours, I'd say there was less
chance of finding a black beetle in it than in the kitchen.

But I insist that they're no problem. Get a bit of paper and see if you can
get it to walk onto it - or do the glass over card thing. Then let it go out
of the window.

Hence dislike of idea of finding one in bathroom is as well-founded as a
similar feeling that others may have about the kitchen?

Look, knowledge is power. The more you learn about things the sooner you'll
lose your fear. If you have children encourage them to look at the beetles
before you throw them out. The beetles, I mean.

Or the children ...

Black beetles are no problem in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, diningroom,
sitting room,workshop, garage, shed, loft, nursery, wetroom - I can't think
of any other.

Both rooms had windows open.

They usually keep their feet on the ground - but that might be vertical
ground of course ...

They really are no problem. Why not get a magnifying glass and see how
beautiful they are - if you can get one to stay still for long enough.

Mary

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Rod