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Well, we cleaned out the cupboard last night. Little sods were everywhere. :erm: I'm sure there are still a few hiding in the joints between the cupboard panels, so I'll be keeping an eagle eye out for any more of them wandering about.

I also discovered that our 'airtight containers' are nothing of the sort. Just cheapo imitation things from some tatty cookshop in Hemel Hempstead. Looks like we need a tupperware party. There's no way I'm having this again - we've been having to buy our bread from the shop until we could get everything clean and re-stock with flour. :(

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:sick:

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We keep ours in tupperware and if you leave to flour for 6 months you still get those things in it. Seems to suggest that the larvae are in the flour.

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Have a look at a pet supplies shop for a bottle of Duramitex - it's an organophosphate pesticide. Mix it with water (ratio will be on the bottle) and clean the cupboard with it - should kill anything alive. Let the cupboard air for a day.

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Yeah, I always thought they came from source...

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Man, you know how to appeal to my sadistic side :naughty: Is that stuff officially safe to use in these situations?

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Sorry but, what on earth are weevils? :(

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Longmans Web Dictionary defines them as:

'a small insect that spoils grain, flour etc by eating it'

Nice, eh :disturbd:

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Thanks, I'll try to remember that :erm:

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Thoroughly OT, but m8, of the entire contents of the internet, could you not find something slightly more original for your avatar? You is confusing me :spin: scastle has been using one or other of those pelican crossing animations for months now.

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Yes. Bird keepers use it (diluted) to clean cages and nest pots. It kills mite and other parasites, which can kill chicks (due to blood loss) and cause feather loss in adult birds.

The usual safety precautions apply - avoid skin/eye contact, don't breathe the mist if you spray the solution, and keep out of reach of children. The active compound is malathion, which is exactly the same stuff in Dermac - a lotion used to treat lice (head/body/pubic) infestations in humans.

If you use it on surfaces where food is prepared, I would leave it a day then clean again with something like a mild bleach solution, or just soapy water.

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Some scary pics on this site :)

http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/domest.htm

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I asked him if I could use his old one, he couldn't find it so he got a new one, and let me have his other one :p:

If you want me to change it I'll put it back to the "idiot" digger though :disturbd:

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don't worry about it unless other people moan at you as well, prolly just me being a dunce :D

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Earlier on I had a bit of a fright when I found one of these giving me the evil eye from the top of my teabag jar:

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2088.html (on the left)

I immediately thought of Chris T and his flour :D

Trouble is, I have nothing in the house that it would eat. So where's it come from :erm: