I found this Monday nestled in the ceiling of my room. I tore my room apart looking for evidence of bed bugs, checking my mattress encasement, actual mattress, bed frame, behind my dressers & nightstand but could not find anything. I only found evidence of carpet beetles on my curtain and headboard, which I knew I had and have struggled getting rid of.
I threw out my bedding and pillows as a precaution, deep cleaned my room, and pushed my bed away from the wall & curtains. I had an inspector come the following day and they could not find any evidence of bed bugs as well, they only found evidence of carpet beetles in the living room area. They even went through the old bedding thrown out and did not see anything. The inspector mentioned the bug in the photo looked a little dark but would need to see it in person to confirm.
Sidebar: I live in SoCal but I do travel frequently and came back from Europe a few weeks ago.
Last week, work was done on the roof (installing solar panels) and there was a lot of banging right above my room. No bats, but we have a lot of birds around and in the backyard.
The only other thing out of the ordinary in my routine is that I visited a friend, whose apartment was pretty cluttered and I brought back a box to my room that I had sitting on her floor.
I ordered a Passive Monitor yesterday because my anxiety is through the roof.