flour

[Jim Stewart ...]

WTF are the tiny creepy crawlies we just found in 'in date' self raising flour?......now in the bin

[jkn]

weevils

[Jim Stewart ...]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

[Jim Stewart ...]

not flour mites then ?

[jon]

Extra protein..

[Max Demian]

Look at them under a magnifying glass. Weevils have a long snout with feelers coming out half way along. Mites are tiny and have eight legs.

[Rod Speed]

Jim Stewart ... [e-mail] wrote

The weevils that are at your place that got into the packet of flour.

Trivially fixed by keeping the packet of flour in a plastic lidded box at your place.

[Rod Speed]

Nope, weevils.

[John Armstrong]

Most likely Tribolium confusum, "the confused flour beetle".

Giyf

[alan_m]

Until the mice eat through the plastic :)

[alan_m]

Weevils are a temperate climate species - Jim lives in Scotland :)

[Rod Speed]

alan_m [e-mail]> wrote

I meant the rigid plastic containers and I always have mouse poison in used jar lids that kills the mice very quickly anyway.

[Chris Green]

When we lived in the Middle East *all* flour had weevils in it, you just seived it carefully! :-)

[Brian Gaff]

That is correct. There are over 100 different types I believe. As to how they get there in the fist place, that is a much harder question. Brian

[S Viemeister]

Which is why I use big glass jars for my assortment of flours.

[Jim Stewart ...]

good man

[Jim Stewart ...]

can I keep them as pets ? ...

[Max Demian]

Spontaneous generation.

[Jim Stewart ...]

challenged in 1668.

[JNugent]

That happened to us once with a bag bought at one of The Big Four.

They wouldn't believe us when we complained, but escalation saw us get a replacement and an apology for the suggestion that our kitchen was infested with flour-mites or weevils.