Evil weevils

jessicamb

I have weevils too now - thanks OP

_pale_

Off to find the disinfectant and hoping the damage isnt too bad.

thriftlady_2

Been looking at weevil pics on the web, not sure mine are weevils. I think they're flour beetles.They are minute- about 0.5 mm by1.5mm and brown, they crawl.

Jay-Jay_4

Mine were about the size of an ant, very dark brown and although they came from a bag of flour at the far end of the kitchen (near the back door), I found them in my living room and around the front door.

When I tracked them back I found an opened bag of bird seed in the back of the cupboard, behind a mountain of used carrier bags and the like. The bird seed bag was ALIVE!!!!!

jessicamb

thriftlady wrote:

Been looking at weevil pics on the web, not sure mine are weevils. I think they're flour beetles.They are minute- about 0.5 mm by1.5mm and brown, they crawl.

Oh these are what mine are.

I just thought they were weevils.

I dont like bugs so I'm not googling for pictures but I think they've got into the sugar as well.

Stardrops and bleach is already to go

Mrs_A.

hi folks
does anyone know how to get rid of these little blighters, my store cupboard contents had to be binned all tubs to i use to store stuff like flour etc, has been throughly washed and so has my poor storecupboard. So i restocked with bread flour and the darn blighters are back!!!!:eek:
how do i get rid of them before i stock up again? my food budget cant take this and neither can my bin
please help
regards
mrs a

flufff

wish I knew......I had to chuck my flour as it got invaded by tiny spiders:eek:
I'm contemplating in investing in some plastic air tight containers from poundland.My house was only built in 96.

Shellybee

My sister had them last year in her flour and was told by my grandmother to put some sticks of peppermint chewing gum in the cupboard (still in the paper)

They didn't come back but we never knew if it was because of the chewing gum or if they went after my sis cleaned the infected cupboard

black-saturn

I had these in my house when I first moved here. I got rid of them by washing EVERYTHING down with bleach every week or so for about 6 months. I still see the odd one but another good going over with bleach usually sorts it out. I don't think the previous occupant of this house was very hygienic.

candygirl

yeah i had a couple of weeks ago n bleach got rid of them all:beer:

Pink.

Hi Mrs A.

We have a recent thread on weevils that might help you so I'll merge your thread with it. As always posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to see all the replies.

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