To be upset that I have found flour mites in my flour???

[PreciousPuddleduck]

Started to make some bread this afternoon & discovered these critters & am slightly freaked out. Had a massive cleaning sesh & have thrown out lots

YANBU. and not U to be either. We had them once, I couldn't believe how tiny they were.

Yanbu. I had to throw out both rice and flour (huge quantity as we use lots), as the little feckers were everywhere, wriggling away.

Uh, NO YANBU.

So sorry for you precious. I've had mice as of late and frequently find myself reduced to a hysterical child.

yanbu I found them in my cupboard last night. Flour, herbs etc all in the bin!

Crowler I screamed the house down when at 3.30 in the morning one ran past me and under the bath. I swore I'd heard scrabbling and scuffles for weeks but dh didn't believe me. Also found silverfish the last time I went to make pancakes. Prompted a big clearout though. So it had its benefits. My gran would have sifted them out. :o

I got an influx of flour mites in blasted organic flour

pffffft

bleached flour all the way now

ps you can freeze the flour to kill the critters then sieve out their little dead bodies no chance

Keep flour in the freezer and you won't get mites

My grandma told me to sieve them out when I got them. I tried to do it and then get on with what I was baking but seriously couldn't bring myself to use the flour!
Binned the lot.

flour beetles? I put all dried goods in plastic bags now other wise they burrow though

Silverfish in the flour.

You guys are seriously stressing me out.

I wouldn't even use flour after the mites had been sieved out. Flour mite poo anyone?

Unfortunately some bags of flour just have flour mites in already. I always keep dried goods in airtight containers so if I get flour mites in one product they can't get into another.

It just made me think of the amount of tasty treats with baked in mitey pooey goodness I may have consumed over the years. :o

You need lock and load lock flour boxes. You can put the bag straight in. Little bastards can't get into them.

I shan't tell you about my maggoty porridge oats then, Crowler

This happened to me in the summer. I never use white sugar so it'd been sat in the cupboard for years. Got it out to use as I was too low on brown sugar for the recipe and the sugar was crawling. Couldnt find them in any other item but chucked it all out anyway and scrubbed the kitchen from top to toe.

it needed it

I didn't think flour mites, get in, as such. I thought they were always there but just hatch if you don't use the flour quick enough?

Yep birdybear, the little bastards are there already. The plastic tubs just stop one bag of old flour contaminating everything else.

Right so I just just sieve it and use Grandma??

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_mite

Well they're already there.. They just hatch put.

Keep flour in the freezer so they can't hatch. Same principle for fruit so nothing hatches out of those either.

I found them inside a plastic tub of bicarbonate of soda the other day. How on earth did they get in there - and how can they possibly live in bicarbonate of soda?

I think it is peanut butter which is legally allowed a high-ish proportion of 'insect fragments' and tinned mushrooms have an allowable proportion of maggots. Seriously, if you thought about it too much you'd never eat anything at all.

I had this once too. I was so disturbed by it. Really horrible. Have a bit of a fear of it happening again!

Yeah, but in Grandma's defence Wiki probably wasn't available when she was a-sieving.

And my late father used To tell me I'd have To eat a peck of dirt before it killed me. Thanks, but no Thanks dad.

YANBU OP

Wiki says they are harmless even if eaten..... Extra protein anyone

apparently sticking a bay leaf in your flour discourages them

I have NO idea if this works

We had this a few weeks ago. Binned about £20 worth of flour & other stuff that we couldn't afford to replace at the time.