WTF are the tiny creepy crawlies we just found in 'in date' self raising flour?......now in the bin
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Sep 29, 2022
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weevils
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not flour mites then ?
Extra protein..
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.
Jim Stewart ... snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com 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.
Nope, weevils.
Most likely Tribolium confusum, "the confused flour beetle".
Giyf
Until the mice eat through the plastic :)
Weevils are a temperate climate species - Jim lives in Scotland :)
alan_m snipped-for-privacy@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote
I meant the rigid plastic containers and I always have mouse poison in used jar lids that kills the mice very quickly anyway.
When we lived in the Middle East *all* flour had weevils in it, you just seived it carefully! :-)
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
Which is why I use big glass jars for my assortment of flours.
good man
can I keep them as pets ? ...
Spontaneous generation.
challenged in 1668.
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.
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