Hi! Recently I got home from Florida and I started noticing these bugs around my home. I first noticed them crawling out of my laundry from the trip and now I am literally killing 30 of them a day. They only seem to be around or at least come out at night time. They are about 1/8" long and they tend to stay up towards the tops of my walls or my ceiling. That is where I find them the most, although I have seen a couple lower than that. They appear to be black until held under the light where I see them almost as a deep brownish or mohogany color. I didn't think they could fly at first because there wings aren't visible (almost like a beetle, you can't really tell they have wings at first because they blend in with the color of the body). They can fly fairly fast although they never seem to try and fly away when I come up to kill them. They have harder bodies because they crunch when they get squished and they tend only to stay in my room. I haven't noticed them anywhere else in the house.

Is this what the bug looks like?

If it is then here's some info in it...
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http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/...is-biblio.html
Does Dermacentor variabilis, the American dog tick, transmit Lyme disease?
An Annotated Bibliography

Lyme disease is a serious bacterial infection caused by a tick bite and affects humans and animals.

The Dermacentor variabilis tick is commonly known as the American dog tick and sometimes is called the wood tick or, infrequently, the eastern wood tick.

The Dermacentor variabilis tick has been shown in several studies to carry the Lyme disease bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi. However, the issue that is not resolved completely is whether the D. variabilis tick transmits Lyme disease. This web page divides the literature on the subject into categories - see Table of Contents. If available, each category contains journal citations from the NIH NLM MEDLINE database and links to other web pages or articles.

Other factors, not addressed below, that may impact the issue of Lyme disease transmission by the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis:


- Method of tick removal
- Elapsed time before partially fed tick bites human

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I couldn't attach the picture the first time...
So here it is... :)

Despite the lengthy description, I still can't think of what you have.

By the way, ticks don't fly. FB's answer is way off base.