Checkered beetle

6840.      1st dealing with black carpet beetles, a woodlouse spider early may & now found this bug in my apt of building in city. Been thought all beetles & insects in Ont being orange & black but none matched. Was on my bathroom counter middle of may 2020. Cornwall, ON. Canada

Number 6840. This is a checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Most of these are general predators on other small arthropods; a few species are pollen feeders. Click here for an example