Saturday, August 17, 2013

Buuuuuuuuuugs

Today I somehow felt like a soldier from Starship Troopers. I don't know exactly where they all appeared but we have an invasion of bugs in our supply closet. So today was full of clearing the room, checking everything we stored (flour, herbs, different sorts of rice etc. pp.) cleaning all the shelves and trying to find the hatchery. At least we know know WHICH bug invades us. In english I think it is the wheat weevil. As far as I could find the information this thing nests in flour or other food (e.g. the dry food of our cats of which we will have caught them we think) and has a rather quick life cycle. If you do not fight them, they can easily multiply their population in a few weeks. So we spent over 3 hours with searching, examining, cleaning and throwing stuff away. Hopefully this will start to work.
At least we didn't find a brainbug :)

Therefore: No painting today, the Dunny only got a basecoat of dark metal. I wanted to start with some rust experiments but after this meee today I really wasn't in the mood. I rather repaired the bike of my wife and tinkered the clutch of our small trailer to my bike. Perfect for the necessary short shopping trip today :) Hope tomorrow I find some time to paint. Want to try out to achieve some rust effect with stippling browns and oranges onto the Dunny...

So long,
Paradox0n

P.S.: And a new fellow on board my little flying vessel. Hello Miniature Man, take a seat and have good time :)

5 comments:

  1. To prevent the presence of weevils just store your flour and whet products in the fridge.

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    1. Thanks for the tip. IF we only had a fridge big enough :) Two big cats and we often bake bread ourselves. Therefore we would need a complete fridge only for this; Not possible in our flat.

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    2. Hard plastic or glass containers are very helpful here. Weevils can eat through paper and cardboard quite easily. The Fridge or Freezer is a good way to knock them down and save something that isn't wholly infested. Good luck.

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    3. They even ate through our Tupperware containers. Don't ask me how, maybe afterall a brainbug? :)

      We now found out the source of the invasion: They sat in some spelt flour we bought two weeks ago.

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