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    It was mostly brown. I could see its wings on the outside, though so that's what made me think it wasn't a tobacco beetle.
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    I almost want to say its a stink bug but its smaller than most I have seen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TravPSU View Post
    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

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    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


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    Edit* woops.
    Last edited by JFellows; 08-08-2009 at 08:53 AM.

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    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.
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    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.
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