Well, the house was cluttered with all our cabinet stuff: glasses, mugs, plates, bowls, spices, etc. I even scrubbed out the cabinets b/c I could see evidence of the stupid bugs in some places. I was really getting grossed out by the number I found and was beginning to feel hopeless.
Well, I started going through all my spices and everything to make sure no bugs were hiding on the outside and I got to the flour. I noticed there were bugs on the top of the bag and slowly started opening the bag. To my utter HORROR there were hundreds, if not Thousands of the bugs inside the bag! I freaked out and made Brian come take them to the dumpster immediately. Brian also had the good idea to check the bread machine flour and to my chagrin there were a few bugs in there too.
Well, I did my homework and came and looked up what the pests were. Here is what NDSU Ag Department has to say about them:
Confused Flour Beetle and Red Flour Beetle
These beetles are frequent invaders in the home and are also one of the worst pests of flour mills. The beetles are about 1/8 inch long and reddish-brown in color. Females may live a year or more, dropping up to 500 eggs on infested foods. Small, white worms (larvae) hatch from these eggs and they feed until they're about 1/6 inch long. Under ideal conditions, development from egg to adult takes about two months. The beetles infest flour, breakfast food, baking powder, beans, peas, dry
pet food and other starchy materials.
So, hopefully the bugs won't come back now that we've disposed of the infected material. We've checked the breakfast food and all seems to be ok. What a NIGHTMARE!
3 comments:
ewww, glad you found the root to your problem! So if you get rid of the flour and whatnot, do they just go away???
I sure hope so! It said if you get rid of the infected food they should be gone. But we'll see!
Pictures! We want pictures!
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