eewwy buggy-ness

[athene]

So, we have/had? weevils in our pantry.

For the past week I've noticed the odd tiny bug in the pantry. The other day there was one in my cereal bowl and a few in the cats's food bowl...eewwww. So I called management. The guy came by today. Apparently they are weevils. He said that we had to find in which dry product they were nesting and once we throw that out we should be okay.

I went through some of the boxes in before leaving for campus and apparently they were nesting in the matzah box. eewww. eeewww. eeewwwy. I threw it out and a few of the other open boxes that had a few weevils in them. I then wiped down the part of the pantry that that box was sitting on (it was directly above the cereal boxes).

Next step is to go through everything else and make sure there are no weevils in them. There weren't any (that I could see) in the rice, which is good.

In other news, Aerith currently has a drooling kitty on his lap.

Comments

[raenshadoe.livejournal.com]

Plastic containers with sealing lids. I haven't gotten around to getting any because I haven't had that particular problem yet, but my mother used them like crazy. Flour, sugar, anything that was dry went into a container that sealed.

I think she even used plastic pretzel barrels... of the type that you get from Sams and Costco... and sewed little decorative hats for them so they wouldn't be ugly.

Seconding the ew, though. I can think of worse things, though. :)

[catling42.livejournal.com]

ugh. gross. I had moths in my pantry for a awhile. gross. I put everything in airtight containers (ziplock bags are not actually airtight, found out the hard way :-\ ) or in the fridge for a couple weeks 'til they all died off. man that sucked.

[missingwatch.livejournal.com]

yeah, anytime i don't put everything in plastic in texas i got weevils. here i've been ok, so far. neat trick--put a few dried chilis in with your rice to keep bugs out.

[parathalyn.livejournal.com]

Weevils are a pain to get rid of because they always seem to hide in the one thing you didn't throw away.

[opheliasavalon.livejournal.com]

thats gross!