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Have a look at what I found in my kitchen food cupboard, It's truly gross!!

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skankywitch · 19/10/2007 14:50

ttp://msucares.com/newsletters/pests/bugwise/2005/bw1405.pdf

Anyone else had these little monsters?. I found them at 9.24 this morning and have been cleaning and throwing away like crazy since. Evidence of them has been around for a couple of days Dh found one wriggling along the work surface and I found one last night climbing up the wall in the living room!!. There is also one that is crispy on top of our eye level grill.

Changed my name as I am a big coward.

If anyone has had them did you manage to get rid of them first go as we are going away tomorrow and I'm paranoid they will have taken over by the time we come home. Help!!

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handlemecarefully · 19/10/2007 14:51

link doesn't work

mrsmerton · 19/10/2007 14:51

Can't get page up. What in devils name have you got??

skankywitch · 19/10/2007 14:52

msucares.com/newsletters/pests/bugwise/2005/bw1405.pdf

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GreatHauntieWurly · 19/10/2007 14:53

you have to copy and paste the link of a new page.

twelveyeargap · 19/10/2007 14:54

The h is missing from the start of the link.

Moth bug thingys.

handlemecarefully · 19/10/2007 14:54

msucares.com/newsletters/pests/bugwise/2005/bw1405.pdf

You mean this?

skankywitch · 19/10/2007 14:55

msucares.com/newsletters/pests/bugwise/2005/bw1405.pdf

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skankywitch · 19/10/2007 14:56

Yes, thanks.

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mrsmerton · 19/10/2007 14:56

Found it. Yuck. Reminds me of my threadworm post last night.

Sounds like you are going to have to chuck everything away before you go .

Poor you. Were there many of them?

alycat · 19/10/2007 14:58

Had these in some bird peanuts given to me by my MIL - you'd think I'd learn to just smile and accept what she gives me then chuck it straight away as she's given me flour weevils twice!

Good luck in your extermination!

skankywitch · 19/10/2007 15:01

I found 6 today actually in cupboard, and 3 yesterday 1 dead, 1 live in kitchen and the one in the living room. I have chucked everything away that wasn't sealed like packets of dried fruit, opened boxes of cereal. Luckily they seem to be confined to just one cupboard, but of course I had to do the whole kitchen.

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binkleandflip · 19/10/2007 15:05

cant get the link to open..what are they?

skankywitch · 19/10/2007 15:10

moth caterpillars

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skankywitch · 19/10/2007 15:11

They look a bit like maggots, YUK !

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Fireflyfairy2 · 19/10/2007 15:14

I had to throw out the entire contents of a cupboard yesterday afet I found miniscule white creepies walking all along my worktop. Dh says they come in flour

And today I am delicate enough... we laid a trop 2 weeks ago as we had a mouse, but thought it was gone. I opened the hotpress to get the hoover this morning & there was a mouse in the trap... ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGhh

MrsArchieTheInventor · 19/10/2007 15:17

Eeeeeeuchyuk! Even the thought of them makes my skin crawl!

If it were me I'd throw everything in that cupboard and adjacent cupboards out and thoroughly bleach the whole thing, though I do have a tendency to overreact at creepy crawly things like that!

skankywitch · 19/10/2007 15:25

I must admit I have been feeling rather queezy all day.

FFF2 Wonder how long you mouse had been in trap? Did it smell?

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Fireflyfairy2 · 19/10/2007 15:57

No, it didn't smell.

It wasn't in the trap yesterday.

Dh got a t-shirt out of the hotpress this morning & he didn't notice the mouse, so goodness knows when it got there!!

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