Question for Marmee:
Do you have grains you use that you have had for a long time? How do you know if you had/have bugs? Will you see like a flour in the grain? I am sorry to be bugging you but I have had this question for years but never knew how to find out the answer.
Marmee answers:
You aren’t bugging me. LOL! Would love to help answer this for you and many more who may have the same question.
I have used grains after having them stored for over 8 years in a sealed air tight container. If you had bugs, this is what you would see depending on the type of bug:
1 - A black hard shell looking thing with legs like an ant type
insect...crawling allllll over the grain...all mixed in.
2- Grain in clumps like small balls the size of a dime -- and all stuck
together...there are bugs or bug eggs inside the clumps
2- Tiny pantry moth type things flying all over the container
4- Grain kernals that don't look firm, smooth and the original color...areas
chipped out of it that look all powdery...but this last one I don't see
much...and if there was no sign of a bug, or tiny worm when I rinsed a small
portion of it in a cup...I would still probably use it ;)
Does that help at all?
Hope so!
NOTE: MarmeeDear has those wonderful moth trap lures that you can help eliminate pantry moths that invade grains in her PANTRY – check THE SHOPPE!!!
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