Bugs in the flour container

[DXP55]

Right - I have had grubs in pasta before but today we opened a half full container of flour and surface was covered in very small bugs - They look like Harvest flies/thunder flies/Thrips.

We buy our flour in those cardboard containers with plastic lids to stop the bugs getting in or so we thought - So if they are Harvest flies I could understand it as they get everywhere - if it is do they now feed on flour and breed - Is there a way to stop them and also could they be in the flour when you bought it.

Dave

 

[DXP55]

Thanks Lads - Did a belated google on them - should have looked first - as said most of our stuff is in plastic containers but if they come as eggs in sealed packets from new there's not much you can do.

Google also said you get them in Rice - biscuits - dried fruit -semolina etc.

Might spend a morning giving cupboards a good clean out.

Make a new shopping list as well

Dave