Found a bug, though not a beetle (maybe)

[TravPSU]

I almost want to say its a stink bug but its smaller than most I have seen.

[mail man]

I almost want to say its a stink bug but its smaller than most I have seen.

I was leaning towards calling it a stink bug too

[Silencei2]

I'm 99% sure that isn't a tobacco beetle. Tobacco beetles look like little scarabs or just little brown round ovals. Had he been a tobacco beetle, I'm guessing you would have found him inside the bags the cigars were held in and not just in the box itself.

Here's a nice picture of one

[JFellows]

Edit* woops.

[basil]

Yeah - I think that's a "true bug" - there's a lot of different kinds. They're stink bugs and they have this bigass beak thing that folds up under their thorax (front part of the body). Some of them are pretty big - there's one here that is gray, about 1/2 the size of your thumb, and has a big semi-circular ridge on it's back just behind the head - we called these "ugly bugs"!

Silencei2 that's a nice shot of a tobacco beetle - never seen a close up of one like that.

[TravPSU]

Ok, panic mode is over. Thank you everyone for your input. Just to be sure, I'm going to have to smoke the cigars that have any unusual cracks or marks on the wrappers. You know, just to be safe.

[Rugbysh9]

Ok, panic mode is over. Thank you everyone for your input. Just to be sure, I'm going to have to smoke the cigars that have any unusual cracks or marks on the wrappers. You know, just to be safe.

If you received an order with cracked sticks I call up the customer service line of who ever you purchased them from. Its happened to me in the past and I've been able to send the whole order back and they'll replace them. Just my $0.02