bugs in cereal. eeeewww!! !

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Simple way to fix the problem, keep all flour and related products in sealed plastic or glass jars. Also when you buy such a product leave the packet in the deep freeze for a few days, that will kill the little horrors.

I also found that ant powder with cypermethrin kills wevils, I found it works within minutes on them. Be careful with that type of ant powder and keep it away from pets and fish tanks.

Yep so true, we eat spiders in our sleep and don't know it it! Perhaps it's best that way!

Actually... you don’t.

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Yeah, give me a break. Still, you know there is a stupid statement here said to young kids. "Nighty night. Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite.". LUCKILY, I never saw a bed bug up close. But they can be DANGEROUS! They are also called kissing bugs, or kissing beetles. They try to bite mammals(even humans) on the lip, because it is soft, and they need blood. If they bite you, you COULD get chagas. What a thing to say to a kid.

Back on the main topic, this has happened to me before. Once, back when I was in second grade, I wanted to eat some Raisin Bran at my dad's house. He never kept anything clean, so when I poured the cereal into the bowl, I was not surprised to see a bunch of sugar ants crawling all over it. We inspected all the bowls first thing, and then realized that the ants had invaded all the cereal boxes. I never did get my bowl of cereal that day...

At least THEY were only ants. Funny that ants don't seem to be blamed for spreading disease, etc... And ants can be SNEAKY and TENACIOUS! Your father didn't have to be real dirty to have them. When I was a kid growing up in california, a mere DROP of coke on a counter top could attract a huge trail of ants within a day! I am NOT KIDDING!! !! !! ! When I got a new home, I found that ants got to about 30 feet from it. I don't want them to find my home, so I fight to keep them away. So far so good, fingers crossed!

BTW I'm sorry to hear you couldn't get your cereal.

I ate about half a bowl of cereal once before realizing the cereal was swarming with little brown ants (I'd never win an award for Most Observant). It was when I was a kid and had braces, and I was so grossed out thinking about ant bits trapped in my braces. I went right upstairs to try to brush/floss them out. Also, I have bitten into a worm in an apple once.

On the subject of bedbugs: I've never gotten bitten by one, but I've worked with underprivileged children who live in bedbug-infested homes. One girl had scars all over her arms from bedbug bites.

Crawly creepies topic

Apparently, by law there is an acceptable amount of insects and parts of insects allowed in food. If you think about it too much you will become anorexic.

I was eating a green pepper once and saw a long, live green pepper worm wiggling around inside. It was actually quite cute.

Some human populations actually eat insects as part of dietary protein. Locusts are even mentioned in the Old Testament as a kosher food. And of course animals and birds consume them.

I had a dry bag of soup, and noticed a full dryed worm in the packaging. Continued to open it and almost ready to cook it until my mom pointed out to me that the worm wasn't there for protein content.

But ketchup, fig newtons, anything - is going to have bugs in it. Your bed sheets, your carpet...

Especially here - The common House Dust Mite;

mmmm Two scoops?

i've had to fight grain weevils three times in the cupboard. they're like fleas, you can't squish them easily. fleas are perhaps the most annoying infestation to have. they hop everywhere and have a flat body so they're hard to grab and squish. they're interesting to microwave.

dust mites: i was thoroughly frightened when i first saw a picture of a dust mite. it looks like something from a 50's sci-fi flick.

May we shall see it the following way: Bugs and worms will eat us when we are dead corpus - Why do it the other way around so long we are still alive?

I LOVE my brownies. Cardbord or wood is nothing. I'd eat a brownine with nucular waste in it. Well if it was a fudge like brownie. I can't stand cake like browines. I've found LOTS of things in my food that weren't supposed to be there: There's more... A bone or peice of plastic in my McDonalds chicken nugget, little plastic pellet things in my ice cream, I also foud a feather in some chicken Honest mistake. They had to be perpared in a rush so they wouldn't go to waste. One of the dogs accidently hurt them so bad they had to be killed so they would not suffer. If you don't have much expirence slaughtering your own chickens I guess it's easy to forget a feather or two. It actualy tasted kinda good. My mom brought her plants in for the winter and it turned out gnats had laid their eggs in them when they were outside. Gnats were EVERYWHERE. Including my cereal. They would fly into the bowl as I was eating. There was a rhumor that the owner of a Chinese restruant around here lost his resturant licence because he was caught cooking cat. My dad who used to work in that town says it really did happen. My mom is ALWAYS finding little wevil like bugs in the food for my bearded dragon's crickets. There was once a black wormy thing with legs (sorta like a tiny millipeed)in with my bearded dragon's crickets. I suspect it was in the bag from the pet store where I got the crickets. Yuck! I like to know extactaly WHAT kind of bugs Pippin is eating. This is one of the reasons I breed his crickets. A lady from a pet supply store that sold organic/natural pet food told us that she once found a dog's ID tags in a can of Alpo.

Gnatty dread topic

Lice really creep me out. Even with the right tools, they are hard to eradicate from a kid's hair. And those tapeworms.

There is a microsized insect that lives in the human tear ducts that somewhat resembles Dussel's dust mite. This bug functions in a sort of symbiotic way, like the good bacteria in the human colon.

It's not the bugs you have to worry about. It's the bug poop.