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Help!! Non gardening issue

B3B3 Posts: 27,505

I've chucked out the flour and bleached the inside of the cupboard.

But it's where I keep all my dried stuff - pulses, pasta,porridge, nuts etc.

Do they go for anything apart from flour?

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Tiny little greyish flecks crawling aboutimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Yep, they get in most 'dried foodstuffs'.  They'll lurk in cracks in shelving and love the damp so now you've wiped it all out try to dry it properly.  If the little so and so's keep reappearing store all your dried foodstuffs in sealed containers, jars, plastic boxes etc.  Total PITA  image


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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    @s got outimage

    I'll be inspecting all my food to see if it moves.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    B3 says:

    @s got outimage

    I'll be inspecting all my food to see if it moves.

    See original post

     Here you are, you can borrow this image


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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Thanks Dove. Some of those magnifying specs that dentists use would come in handy too.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    image


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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546

    We got them from a batch of dodgy dog biscuits. By the time we found them they had invaded everywhere. After tipping away infested foodstuff and investing in lots of plastic containers I think we're on top of them now, haven't seen any live ones for a while,  but they are a pain.

    I am a bit wary of things like Gram flour that is packed in the sub-continent and or stored in warehouses that may not meet the same standards as expected in the UK, and we won't buy loose dog biscuits ever againimage

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    There was gram flour in the container as well.

    I stopped buying organic flour for the same reason.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601

    I don't like them in my stuff. I bet sailors in the old days were glad of a bit of protein but I prefer to go without. As well as keeping all my dry ingredients in tins or plastic airtight containers, I occasionally change my cupboards around so they go were the tins were and vice versa.

  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066

    I don't keep flour in the cupboard.  I keep it in airtight storage jars on the worktop.  Before it goes into the jar it gets put in the freezer for three days. 

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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