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[BrendanS]

Re: Weevil free flour

Best way of killing them (flour weevils is a generic name to cover a whole bunch of bugs) is to get hold of some chloroform. Put a bit on a cotton wool ball, and put in the tupperware container for a few minutes. Freezing is of no use, they are temperature resistance, and while a few may die, loads will survive, and they each lay millions of eggs, so the population will grow in no time.

Best preventative measure is to clean out all lockers thoroughly, then spray with non toxic fumigant (easily available in US, not sure about elsewhere), especially into any cracks, then use pheromone traps (again easily available in US, not sure about elsewhere) which will attract the weevils to them.

Stop reinfestation using chloroform treatment on all flour brought on board.

Lot of hassle to do all this though.

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[ChrisE]

Re: Weevil free flour

Sorry should have said sieve before store. We bought stuff in the Verdes and Brazil that was polka dotted beforehand!

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[Robin]

Re: Weevil free flour

When I was a student I worked one summer break in a flour mill on a machine filling sacks with flour. All spillages were swept up and put back in the hopper. THere were regualr calls for rat catching volunteers to go int the silos big spade in hand. Oh and there was apparently a British Standard for the amount of mouse/rat crap allowable percentage wise or ppm whtever. I'm sure things must be better now in the UK, or are they?

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[cliffb]

Re: Weevil free flour

If it's of any interest. I live in rural Scotland. When I first came here, around 14 yrs ago I found weevils got into my flour in my larder. After that I threw out the old timber shelves and replaced with varnished new ones. I also keep the flour in a sealed container. They've not returned since.
Talking to others around here it seems they infest the timber.
Just my experience...for what it's worth.

Regards
Cliff

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[Keith]

when you make your bread or boil your rice just cook the little buggers, they don't taste of anything, but you can gaurantee they're fresh, its what we did in 96 when we crossed the pond.........keith

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[snowleopard]

i'm with jack tar on this - if the bread isn't fit for the weevils it isn't fit for me.

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