2006-09-17 04:37:41 · 22 answers · asked by Grinner5000 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
They don't look like weevils, could they be anything else?
2006-09-17 04:49:04 · update #1
When my mate lodged with me we had an infestation of the bastards. They were everywhere! In the end I had to get some special killer powder. They were falling out of the cupboards onto the kitchen worktops. My mate came home at lunch one day and wrote 'help us' with their corpses on the top. It took a few seconds to realise when I got home that night. Thought I'd walked into a Hammer Horror.
2006-09-17 06:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by SilentRunning 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The very teeny little black specks that move about are called weevils. They get in their by having their eggs in the flour, perhaps even in the wheat and survived the milling process. Their eggs are reeeely tiny and go undetected in flour. I hate to break it to you, but you gotta throw out the flour and clean the canister real well and dry it THOROUGHLY before you use it again. And always make sure your canister seals well. If there's no moisture at all, any weevil eggs will never hatch because they need moisture, even though, being tiny, only a little.
2006-09-17 04:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weevils
2006-09-17 04:41:07 · answer #3 · answered by andrea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called flour weevils and they hatch in your flour that has hung around too long in a warm place. Best then to keep your flour in the fridge if it takes you that long to use it up. They are harmless even if you ate them unknowingly or knowingly for that matter.
2006-09-17 06:01:32 · answer #4 · answered by COACH 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weevils, the eggs come in the flour, then they hatch.
2006-09-17 04:49:18 · answer #5 · answered by Warlock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In summer time if the flour is not kept in the fridge the heat locked in the flour creates the bug it may sound strange sometime these bugs may enter from other food in the house not stored at room temp
2006-09-17 04:46:09 · answer #6 · answered by ganesh_vnyk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weevils, but not sure how they get in there. Its like when you read a book, and always find a tiny transparent beetle or spider nesting within still alive.
2006-09-17 04:46:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are called weevils, but yea I have often wondered how they get there.
2006-09-17 04:49:01 · answer #8 · answered by kiss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be careful of those gross little weevils. They will get in all of your food if you don't get rid of them quickly.
2006-09-17 04:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by Kelly_from_Texas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Weevils - see the link for more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weevil
2006-09-17 04:44:51 · answer #10 · answered by stepfordswiss 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋