#bug infestation help

[paepaerest]

Ok….. so..

[sedona-decomposed]

GET TF OUT OF MY ROOM 😭🙏

[asher-more-like-trasher]

Scarab sketch dump

[e8luhs]

finally getting to that stage where ive been away from my abuser for long enough that i can finally stop like... feeling bad for him or whatever even though he was ~saaaad~ when he was abusing me. i mean okay yeah i still feel bad for him sometimes i still feel guilty sometimes i still miss him sometimes because at one point we were friends jesus christ. but i dont feel so utterly plagued by it as much as before which is nice. unfortunately it does mean that my brain is stuck re-playing everything with a new light being shined over it for the several hundredth time but at least im not flagellating myself about it as much anymore. like im finally starting to think more about how i feel than about how he feels. that is something. kind of bare minimum but its something after ages of blaming myself for everything that happened

[qqweebird]

ok fine i admit my bias against insects for mammals in the case that i see a cockroach in my room and feel violated and disgusted and fearful but i just fully saw a mouse in my room and despite the fact that they also carry disease and on top of that will shit everywhere and can start electrical fires and can bite i just think oh… baby mousie 🥺🥺

[luc1ferian]

What if we both went on a date to my kitchen and killed all of the fruit flies that have infested. What if we laughed as we clapped over the bodies of small, helpless yet mindless creatures that have invaded my home in a desperate attempt to survive and reproduce. What if you find and scratch a fly right again the refrigerator and I get two at once. What if we find a motherload of bug surrounding the fruit bowl and collect so many bodies. What if we set up bowls of apple cider vinegar traps together. What if we danced to music as we twirl and clap around the room. What if we held our hands between a bug and crush it swiftly and almost mercifully to death, then carefully rub its innards off of each others palms. What then.

[funkylilomen]

if i see another goddamn wasp in this house i will cry /hj

[clatterbane]

Yay, more prophylactic freezer action.

All the dry staples (rice, flour, beans, etc.) from the grocery order earlier are now in frozen quarantine for a few days before they go anywhere near our pantry cupboard. Because I was unfortunately reminded again not long ago that I probably should NOT have slacked off on that, when I found minor evidence of flour moths in my previous bag of cornmeal. 😵

After some careful inspection, it didn't look like any had managed to get much further than that. Everything infestable that was in there got cycled through the freezer to kill off any kind of bugs and/or their eggs anyway, playing it safe. I actually just cleared out the final batch this evening, to make room for the new stuff. Including a fresh bag of the same cornmeal!

The few items left in those four drawers usually dedicated to dry goods are, like, pickled vegetables and some shirataki noodles in vacuum pouches. Not tempting chow for horrible little moth larvae, and it would be obvious if the pouches had lost seal

Now an amazing amount of pantry stuff has been taking up space to one side of our living room for several weeks altogether--and I am leaving that cabinet empty of everything that might host them for a few more days, until those new groceries are ready to leave quarantine. Just to hopefully make sure there's a lower chance of any eggs or anything lingering in there.

Our temporary pantry, y'all. That back of the couch bag just got hastily hoiked there a little while ago.

Thankfully no evidence of any worrying bugs anywhere else in the house so far, with the freezer-cycled food just sitting there in the openwith no good way to keep anything out of it. Can't say I will be sorry to finally get everything back where it belongs!

Anyway, I am indeed aware that this might seem like an overly nutty reaction to finding what looked like evidence of moth webs in a bag of cornmeal. And maybe it really is.

But yeah, I do have actual OCD. Plus I lived with both moths and freaking weevils in my mom's food hoard, which she couldn't just get rid of on any of the several different occasions when bugs did get into it. Hitchhiking in on new items from the store.

She would honest to goodness also go ahead and cook pasta that she knew had weevils lurking in the package, and fish them out of the boiling water with a spoon. 🥴 I think I took significant psychic damage from just several years of those damned moths flapping around the whole house, and their awful maggoty-looking web spinning children dangling on threads. I remember walking straight into one hanging from the living room ceiling fan, of all places. And this shit went on for several years straight.

Those little fuckers will get into things that you wouldn't even imagine them possibly being attracted to. You may think a jar or other firmly closed lidded hard container will keep them out, but if it's not completely airtight they will find a way in.

On the plus side, I did develop extensive experience at identifying signs of weevils and moths in your food stores.

Anyway, I really am extra motivated to avoid dealing with pest bugs in my own pantry, now that I am in charge of my own. Brought home weevils a couple of times back in London, but promptly tossed everything that might be infested and preemptively froze the rest.

So yeah, it might be aggravating, but I think I will indeed go back to making sure everything risky that comes in goes through freezer quarantine before it joins the other food. Needing to systematically go through and do that on all the existing shit has eaten up way more spoons than if I had just done it gradually before a new thing went into the cabinet at all. And luckily we also have more freezer space now, to help make quarantine more practical.

Also, it may be pretty ingrained in me to keep plenty of food on hand. To the point that I do set actual stock limits for myself. But, at least this feels like further evidence that I really do not seem to have developed the same outright hoarding urge--to the point that you literally could not bring yourself to throw a buggy bag of cornmeal or rice in the trash. 😬 I can, and will, toss whatever I need to in order to keep things non-disgusting.

[nfinitefreetime]

Okay, look, Marvel ...

You’ve got me, you bastards. I’m in. The last of your fucking movies I saw in a theater was I don’t even remember but it might have been Endgame, weeks after it came out. I also don’t remember which of your movies was the last I saw at all. Maybe Black Widow. I am going to see Fantastic Four: First Steps in a theater. I am not back and I have no plans to see any other forthcoming Marvel movies.…

[zuriyourfavoriteloner]

What insect does cocoon belong to?! 😩 First an apparent wolf spider, then a yellow jacket/wasp infection (that we’re still dealing with btw 🙄), and now this?! A possible moth infestation?!

Hopefully, I’m just overreacting 🫠🤞🏽 & luckily, the bi-yearly exterminator will be here tomorrow, but what is this?! 🐝🕸️🕷️

#Insects #Bug #Infestation #Moth #WolfSpider #YellowJackets #Wasp #Exterminator #Help 😭

[snekdood]

you know the bugs-in-your-house problem is bad when there's specific bugs you're ok with having, lmao

[fly-sky-high-dragon-hoard]

if someone told me bedbugs would alter the course of my life even by this much I don't think I'd believe them

[elliottcity]

I like my bread without the flies

[wyvernplushies]

We wanna take bill apart and give him a proper clean before like,, letting him Be Free (he's hanging out in a sealed bag ATM)

but we also wanna wait till we've found out more about him (the company that made him has made contact but there's nothing conclusive yet, they asked if he was a pyjama bag which would have been cute but no secret compartments to be found), mostly so we know for sure what materials we are working with but it would be nice to know how old he is!!! But also

Wanna hang out with him and introduce him to the other horses asap

The struggle orz

[squapejuice]

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[sablesreblogs]

Hey people who often buy pet food, particularly for a bird, rat, hamster, mouse, etc… perhaps even anyone who knows stuff about bugs… Anybody know any good ways to get rid of weevils???

This is the second package of brand new animal food I have gotten (from completely different brands, mind you, being put in separate containers. I know I’m not contaminating them.) that have just… sprouted weevils. Just little guys in there. And this wouldn’t be a problem if I didn’t mix foods (I’m not feeding standard animals. I help with an wildlife rescue so the mixing is just so the animals have a variety until they go to their next stage) because then I’d just toss it around outside for the birds and squirrels. But now we’re involving 2-3 bags of food. I should know to check by now, but for some reason I still had faith that I shouldn’t be buying a side of funny little guys with my pet food. And it’s not that the weevils will hurt the animals, it’s that I don’t want weevils in my food. :( As much as I know I keep everything clean, weevils have legs, wings, and a mission to eat that I can’t stop.

It’s not an infestation I want to deal with, but I just can’t justify tossing this much. Last few times I tried heating, and that worked pretty well but I want to know about other methods. This time they’re going in the freezer, but I don’t know how effective it’s going to be. Help.