On May 4, 3:14 pm, Julia Altshuler > wrote:
> Then the wormies were moth larva? I'm not sure I want to know. When I
> found what had to be the offending bag, I looked at bottom of it (a
> paper bag, not transparent) and threw it away without looking inside.
> (Then I threw away anything that I hadn't used in a while.)
>
> I think I'll hold off on the googone gel and bleach until Jim gets back.
> He goes a little nuts at the idea that I might not be showing proper
> respect for wood.
>
> The most troublesome spot is going to be the space between the shelf and
> the board that supports the shelf. If you look at the shelf from the
> bottom, it looks solid. If you look at it from the inside, there's a
> half inch space that a pencil and several toothpicks had fallen behind.
> That's where I'm afraid a great deal of the yuckiness is. I'm not
> sure I can tackle that myself.
>
> Thanks to everyone who wrote.
>
> --Lia

Yuck- I had those at my previous house. I cleaned and dumped stuff
more than once. I guess I was dumping the wrong stuff- flour, cereal
etc. They were in a bag of white chocolate. Ended up using a pheremone
sticky thing I got from an exterminator, which solved the problem.