Please help identify these dark brown bugs 2-3mm

London, United Kingdom

We have been invaded by these small (2-3mm) dark brown only crawling insects in our home.
They can crawl up walls, on ceilings, carpets and because of this are getting everywhere, inside drawers, top of all furniture surfaces and it's now like everywhere I look I seem spot one!
I can't search these forums as there are too many spider pictures which I can't look at as have big phobia.
So need your help please to help me understand why we have so many of these bugs and how get rid of them.
I noticed about 10 of them in our bedroom before we went on holiday and I hovered them up before we went away. We've come back after two weeks and they have had fun multiplying everywhere!
I find them now in every room of the house!
They don't seem live long, curl up and die of own accord within less than week from what I can tell.
I wonder if my partner brought them into house from cutting lawn before we went on holiday, are they usefully something you would see outside? No one I know has ever seen them before so I'm a bit in limbo.
Please help me identify them if you know what they are. Thanks so much, Naomi

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Minot, ND

These look suspiciously like drugstore beetles, aka biscuit beetles. Better check your pantries and any other food storage areas for signs of insect infestation - the larvae of these beetles will feed on an extremely wide range of dried foods (including grains, flour, rice, seeds, beans, pasta, cereals) and spices, as well as hair, leather, books, and taxidermy specimens.
http://www.pestcontrol-uk.org/pests/beetles/biscuit-beetles.php

London, United Kingdom

Thanks for your comments but I don't think this is the correct identification.
We don't find them anywhere near food or in the kitchen they were first found upstairs in the house where there is no food.
We live in the UK if this helps with the identification.
Thanks for helping.

Minot, ND

The adult biscuit beetles do not feed, and often are found wandering quite some distance from any food source. It is only the larval stage that would be found infesting dry stored food items...
These beetles occur nearly world-wide, and I still believe that is the most likely i.d. for what you have.

London, United Kingdom

They don't fly and are nowhere near food.
I will start a new thread with closer pictures.

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