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Pantry weevils-- how to get rid of them
The eggs are in the product when you buy it. You bring it home. The
eggs hatch. They infect your other products. I recommend storing your dry goods in sealable glass jars. Then keep the jars in the freezer. This sounds extreme, but once you've got an infestation, it is the only thing that works. --Lia |
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On 2007-04-24, Julia Altshuler > wrote:
> The eggs are in the product when you buy it. You bring it home. The > eggs hatch. They infect your other products. > > > I recommend storing your dry goods in sealable glass jars. I agree. I've had two infestations from buying bulk food at Whole Foods and even a packaged food from a health food store. I finally wised up and started putting everything in glass spring-seal jars. I prefer the French Luminarc line over inferior Walmart clones with their inferior plastic seals. They're more expensive, but worth it. Even if you get contaminated dry-goods, it stays contained because the bug can't get out to reproduce and they die off. Not to worry, as the increased protein content won't hurt you. nb |
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On 2007-04-24, bob > wrote:
> Doesn't freezing cause the seals to crack? I don't bother with the freezing step. Why bother? If the little buggers are in there, they'll die of old age and get eaten regardless. I find an empty larvae shell doesn't look/taste much different than a brown rice hull. nb |
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notbob wrote:
> On 2007-04-24, bob > wrote: >> Doesn't freezing cause the seals to crack? > I find an empty larvae shell doesn't look/taste much different than a > brown rice hull. Yeah, but you're just a curmudgeonly barbarian. :-) -- "So long, so long, and thanks for all the fish!" Dave www.davebbq.com |
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bob wrote:
> > Doesn't freezing cause the seals to crack? It can, if the seals are manipulated while cold. Cold makes the rubber much stiffer, hence more likely to crack when flexed or stretched. Worse yet, rubber undergoes a crystallization phenomenon at low temperature, which greatly increases stiffness. There's both a short-term and a long-term crystallization phenomenon. After returning to room temperature, much of the crystallization disassembles, but not all of it. Rubber exposed to many low-temperature dwells will acquire a permanent increase in stiffness. (I used to work for a microelectronics company on elastomers, and this is one of my areas of expertise. I could bore you to death just on the subject of silica fillers for elastomers. Very few people know more than I do about that subject.) |
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:40:16 -0700, Mark Thorson >
magnanimously proffered: >bob wrote: >> >> Doesn't freezing cause the seals to crack? > >It can, if the seals are manipulated while cold. >Cold makes the rubber much stiffer, hence more >likely to crack when flexed or stretched. > >Worse yet, rubber undergoes a crystallization >phenomenon at low temperature, which greatly >increases stiffness. There's both a short-term >and a long-term crystallization phenomenon. >After returning to room temperature, much of >the crystallization disassembles, but not all >of it. Rubber exposed to many low-temperature >dwells will acquire a permanent increase in >stiffness. Thank you. That has been my experience as well. I was wondering if it was just my seals. >(I used to work for a microelectronics company >on elastomers, and this is one of my areas of >expertise. I could bore you to death just on >the subject of silica fillers for elastomers. >Very few people know more than I do about that >subject.) |
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