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ICK!! New Bug In My Kitchen

x Hedge — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:51:09 GMT

Just found a little bug floating in the cat's water.

*sigh*

I was hoping I'd gotten them all, but I guess not.

A few weeks ago I bought 3 or 4 boxes of my fav tea. A few nights ago I opened a box and found several bugs, shed skins, etc inside the box.

The teabags are individually sealed in totally closed, waxed pouches, the bugs were just inside the cardboard box.

So after opening & inspecting all the newly purchased tea, there were bugs in two of the boxes.

These lil guys are small oval, mostly black or drk brown with some red across the center of the body. Never saw them before. Wonder if they're imported from a warehouse in another part of the country.

Now, I keep this type of stuff isolated in a cupboard that's away from other cupboards. MOST of the stuff in there is either sealed in glass jars or plastic containers. But in haste, I'd tossed the tea boxes up there with a few other unsealed starchy things.

So sure, I was standing up on a chair at midnight, emptying out the entire cupboard so i could remove the shelf paper and inspect/wash the inside of the cupboard.

Threw out split peas, three pasta and a pudding, boxes I'd tossed up there without sealing first

(Peeked in the pudding box, yep, one in there. ewww!!!)

While putting things back in the clean cupboard I spotted a crawler on the counter below the cupboard. Then yesterday I spotted one on the table right next to that.

Ohwa-ugh! I'm going to be throwing out and scrubbing/laundering EVERYTHING in the kitchen.

I HATE weevels, cupboard crawlers, mothworms, and any other buggy-named thing.

Re: ICK!! New Bug In My Kitchen

2blonde — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:00:42 GMT

@x Hedge Ickkk! I hate uninvited guests.......especially in my food! I had a problem with those awful weevils once a long time ago. I remember opening a box of cake mix to find them in there. Nothing worse than moving cake mix! Then I found them on the shelf (it was high, where you wouldn't easily notice anything). Of course I had to toss everything and clean like you did. I really think they came as eggs in one of the flower based mixes I had bought, because I never had them again. Really gross's me out thinking about that.

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hayseed00 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:07:06 GMT

@x Hedge Years ago my Mom bought a bag of flour and it had pantry moths in it. She battled those months for two years finally getting rid of them. She cleaned everything and threw out all open bags of just about everything in our kitchen, and put flour in a glass container. Mom bought some pantry moth traps at the hardware store which seened to really help get rid of them.

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Nightowlz — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:13:16 GMT

I hate creepy crawlers too. LOL!!! Yuck.

When I woke up this morning there was a dead worm stuck on the tile floor by the garage door. That's a first. Never seen a worm in the house before. I'm wondering how did it get in here? We had rain last night so they are trying to get out of the water. They are always all over our front porch, back patio plus get in the garage & cannot get back out to the grass when it rains.

Re: ICK!! New Bug In My Kitchen

Nataliesgramma — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:41:18 GMT

I get ants in my kitchen every Spring....I spread Borax around and that usually gets rid of them...

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2blonde — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:22:14 GMT

@Nightowlz My tough guy cat takes care of all the mice, and when he sees a bug he puts me on high alert, but I have to take care of those myself.......he just wants to chase them around the house!

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hayseed00 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:47:18 GMT

@2blonde My older white kitty loves her sky raisins, aka flies, LOL

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jannabelle1 — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 23:07:10 GMT

@Nataliesgramma, thanks for the tip. Within the last 5 days I've had those tiny little ants all around my kitchen window and going onto the counter. I hate those blasted things. I battle them every spring as well, but will look for some Borax next time I'm out.

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homedecor1 — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 02:08:48 GMT

Anything I buy is put in a Lock N Lock especially pastas, chips, cookies, rice, etc.

One time I opened a box of Ronzoni pasta I had a bug in the box🤬😳. I inspect the food better than the FDA😉.

In my spice cabinet I have bay leaves on the shelves -- no more microscopic bugs. I found out cayenne and other spices breed these microscopic bugs -- the exterminator told me about the bay leaves. So far haven't seen any in a long time🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Re: ICK!! New Bug In My Kitchen

January121 — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 04:20:58 GMT

@hayseed00 wrote:
@x Hedge Years ago my Mom bought a bag of flour and it had pantry moths in it. She battled those months for two years finally getting rid of them. She cleaned everything and threw out all open bags of just about everything in our kitchen, and put flour in a glass container. Mom bought some pantry moth traps at the hardware store which seened to really help get rid of them.

@hayseed00 ..... flour should be stored in the refrigerator with a few bay leaves in the bag or container...... you will never have a problem.

Re: ICK!! New Bug In My Kitchen

apl_pi14 — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:48:00 GMT

@jannabelle1 wrote:
@Nataliesgramma, thanks for the tip. Within the last 5 days I've had those tiny little ants all around my kitchen window and going onto the counter. I hate those blasted things. I battle them every spring as well, but will look for some Borax next time I'm out.

@jannabelle1 Baby powder works as well.

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SharkE — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:52:15 GMT

Don't have much trouble with critters in Tx. Too dry for them. No poison ivy either. Praise the almighty !

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SharkE — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:56:00 GMT

I'd call a exterminator that doesn't offer contracts. I got a guy to get rid of pocket gophers he charged 125 gophers are gone to gopher heaven .

No contract. They had tore up my side yard to where you couldn't mow over there without humpty hump hump over the mounds of dirt about like groundhogs.

New baseball team is sod poodles named after them . Amarillo, Tx team

why? I don't know. Stupid name for baseball team.

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msclassylady717 — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 02:47:40 GMT

Your little brown bug with the red sounds like a russian roach, well that's what the bug guy here in FLA told me. Living here in FLA lots of bugs, yucks ..... didn't have bugs issues until I moved into this apartment. Our bug guy would come by once a month to spray, then the complex changed hands and also bug service; then all of a sudden we started to see these little critters .... yucks .. yucks .. yucks.

Ever since I moved to FLA, I would take items out of their original boxes and put into Lock-n-Lock or some other sort of plastic containers or decorative containers to get rid of their boxes; so when I saw these bugs, I flipped out.

I reported the issue to maintenance and called in the bug service and the guy said they were difficult to get rid of; everyone on the complex was complaining about them. They finally came in and put down some sort of paste/bait in and around some areas of the kitchen which was suppose to be good for 6 months, that seemed to have worked (thank goodness) and the bug people still come and do their regular sraying as well.

At times, makes me wonder why I moved to FLA with all the bugs they have here .. lol

Hope you don't have the same issues as we had.

msclassylady717 in jax fla

Re: ICK!! New Bug In My Kitchen

x Hedge — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 03:25:02 GMT

@apl_pi14 wrote:
@jannabelle1 wrote:
@Nataliesgramma, thanks for the tip. Within the last 5 days I've had those tiny little ants all around my kitchen window and going onto the counter. I hate those blasted things. I battle them every spring as well, but will look for some Borax next time I'm out.
@jannabelle1 Baby powder works as well.

Sometimes for ants, I'll sprinkle a little Comet cleanser and use a business card to push it into the crevice where the ants want to get in.

Exterminator told me ants groom themselves, and don't like that Comet chlorinated powder.

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Mom2Dogs — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 12:25:10 GMT

@jannabelle1 and @Nataliesgramma, every spring I have a terrible time with tiny ants in the kitchen.....I have bleach in a squirt bottle that I use to clean off the countertops, along with putting out terro on the countertop...did not work long term.

Last year I purchased TERRO stakes for outside. We put the stakes in the area under my kitchen window outside and I swear, within one day I never saw another ant in the kitchen.

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hayseed00 — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 14:14:06 GMT

@Mom2DogsThe Terro products work so good for ants.