Evil weevils

zippychick

ive merged this with our weevils thread

Zip

frugalpam

Glad I found this thread - my kitchen has been invaded by these horrible critters :eek: I'm emptying the cupboards out one by one and cleaning/bleaching etc. I found the source of them - an opened packet of Ready Brek that had worked it's way to the back of one cupboard. The contents were alive with them !!!!

Is bleach the best thing to kill any eggs etc in the cupboards? What a nightmare this has been.

vgstar44

oh gosh....nothing worse than beasties in the kitchen to put you off.

When i first moved into our house around 4 years ago we were over run with silverfish!!! i had them everywhere even after getting a brand new kitchen installed they were still running riot. Thought i had got rid of them when i opened my baking cupboard and about 5 of them ran back underneath the bag of flour.

apparently they can live for up to a year without food!!!

luckily last year we managed to see of the last of them....well hopefully...havent seen any but then again they could still be lurking somewhere :eek:

I struggled to sleep at nights sometimes for thinking about it so can totally sympathise

frugalpam

A year without food :eek: Then I need to get busy with the bleach, methinks.
Still, since I got rid of that packet they seemed to be breeding in, there have been far fewer around. But until I've been through every cupboard and wiped every single tin/container, I don't think I'll be totally rid of them
Ah well - I'll never have had such clean cupboards, by the time I've finished!!

frugalpam

Well - the creepy crawlie beastie hunt is going well :j Thankfully since I discovered the source of the weevils, and have bleached every nook and cranny of the cupboards, I'm seeing very few around. Persistent little boogers though - still a few tough ones marching around :eek:
Never had such a clean kitchen!

redlady_1

Oh they will be sticking around for a while! :rotfl:

StinkerPinker

How about using one of those hand-held steam producing gadgets designed for domestic cleaning. Blasting 'em with live steam would make their eyes water!

spike7451

I bought a re-sealed reduced bag of plain flower from my local co-op (no choice,it was the only one left on the shelf!) & a couple days after I got it home,I opened the cupboard to find a big hole in the bottom of the bag,flour everywhere & mouse droppings.
Contacted the CoOp who said "Oh the mouse could've come in blah blah" which I answered with "Funny how in over 10 years living here,this is my first mouse,I'm in an upstairs apartment & this only happened after I bought the flour,not to mention previous bags of flour stored in the same place were unnafected till now"
Daisy cat proved herself to be useless as a mouser & I eventually caught the mouse & released it into the back garden.

sophsnan

I had these horrible little things in my kitchen cupboard but managed to get rid of them but the other week went to my jar of pasta and it was alive with them ran up my arm when I tried to empty it out gave the jar a good wash with boiling water and washing up liquid so far so good (by the way the pasta was value pasta never had it with the more expensive stuff)

rising_from_the_ashes

OK so I've been infested with the yukky horrible weevil things:(.

They were in a bag of SF flour, which I obviously binned. Then a 2nd one, and now a 3rd.....

I've cleaned the cupboads thoroughly and moved the flour into a cupboard further away from the cooker (thinking the heat may be :eek: making them hatch) - and I've not got them in another bag (it always seems to be the SR for some reason, the plain has always been fine).


So, another bag in the bin and the cupboards now being thoroughly cleaned, yet again.

I'm a bit worried as I've got several bags of bread flour for winter emergencies and am thinking I might try freezing these to kill any :eek: eggs that may be lurking.

A couple of questions:

I've read to keep the flour in the freezer for 4 days - is this right?

Once, you take it out of the freezer (I don't have enough room to keep it there permanently), do you have to do anything "special" with the flour re it thawing etc?

Will the flour still last as long once it's been frozen?

Obviously these bags are unopened - do I need to open them & check them first?

If so, will this affect the time the flour is OK for?


Thanks - just want rid of the pesky things!:(