Can you identify this bug?

[oldsmokey]

I am trying to identify this bug I found on my plants. It's leaving marks on the leaves that looks like leaf miners. I thought leafminers looked like a small caterpillar this one looks more like a small beetle type insect with long antennas about three or four legs on either side of the brown colored by. This is the best picture I could get using my camera and a loop.

 

[George Mc]

Could it be a tick from the yard

 

[oldsmokey]

That's a good question I will have to have a closer look. Ticks feed on blood not on plant material so I'm thinking it's probably not one. As I said they are leaving marks on the leaves that look like a leaf Miner tracks. I will post a picture in a few minutes of the marks on the leaves.

 

[oldsmokey]

Here are some pictures of the leaves look similar to leaf miners although I've never had leaf miners I'm going by pictures I've seen online.

 

[MochaBud]

Looks like a carpet beetle coming out of the larvae stage...

 

[Lowrider72]

Sure its not a mite mate, looks similiar to a spider mite, though they usually suck spots in the leaves. Maybe you have both, leafminer may be hiding.
Hope its not mites but if so, no hanging around, kill kill killl........ Lol
This why you dont pull pots in and out of house all the time...brings crap inside.

 

[oldsmokey]

It's definitely not mites I've had to deal with them lots.

 

[Lowrider72]

Then leafminer mate, solid tracks like that, neem them good.

 

[oldsmokey]

Looks like a carpet beetle coming out of the larvae stage...

I hope you're wrong about the carpet beetle the wife finds out those are in the house my growing days could be numbered.

 

[oldsmokey]

Then leafminer

That's what I thought too leafminer but the bug that I found does not look like a leaf Miner not the ones I've seen pictures of online of anyways.

 

[Lowrider72]

Maybe you picked up a few, no hard and fast rules outside in nature.
Or its,a bug eats,traces like a miner but is not, any bugs leave same tracks?

 

[MochaBud]

I hope you're wrong about the carpet beetle the wife finds out those are in the house my growing days could be numbered.

If it is they're easy to get rid of...I just removed my plants from the room and sprayed some home defense bug spray...let that set for 24 hrs and then I vacuumed the floors and wiped the walls with bleach water...haven't had a problem since

 

[oldsmokey]

So apparently in Canada neem oil is not used in commercially available pesticides. But I can buy it in its pure form off of Amazon any recommendations and how I would mix it to treat my leaf Miner problem?