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Suggestions for Dealing with this.....?

 
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fortysixyou



Joined: 08 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:13 pm    Post subject: Suggestions for Dealing with this.....? Reply with quote





They're gaining on me. Tiny little things. Barely visible to the naked eye. Just look like bits of black peppered on my wallpaper. Anybody know the name and/or an effective way to eradicate these new spring acquaintances?
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BS.Dos.



Joined: 29 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If they're the same, then we've had loads of them crawling out of a broken section of our bathroom door frame. They're really, really small, but visible to the naked eye. My GF put loads of Raid down. It didn't kill them all straight away as every morning there'd be loads more scuttling about, but we haven't seen any for about a week now so they've either all been killed or they run off to re-group.
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samd



Joined: 03 Jan 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Damn, now I'm paranoid.

Think I'll just keep the lights off...
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PeteJB



Joined: 06 Jul 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are they and what do they do? Shocked
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NAVFC



Joined: 10 May 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Suggestions for Dealing with this.....? Reply with quote

fortysixyou wrote:




They're gaining on me. Tiny little things. Barely visible to the naked eye. Just look like bits of black peppered on my wallpaper. Anybody know the name and/or an effective way to eradicate these new spring acquaintances?

use a bug bomb.
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moosehead



Joined: 05 May 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

newly hatched cockroaches??

try google images, insects, asia, korea, etc. should be able to find a site that shows various species in this area
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fortysixyou



Joined: 08 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

moosehead wrote:
newly hatched cockroaches??

try google images, insects, asia, korea, etc. should be able to find a site that shows various species in this area




Luckily, a google search confirms that the little guys are not baby cockroaches. Further research makes me think they're some sort of weevil.

Compare my photo with this common weevil. Similarities, no?



Weevil:
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blackjack



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: anyang

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it's weevil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weevil
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shaunew



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

To get rid of them, take some and burn them or cut them up. Place them were they come out of to show them that you mean business.
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fortysixyou



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laughing Laughing Laughing


Make an example !
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PeteJB



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hahaaahahaha. A huge pile of baby roaches to show them whose boss!
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BS.Dos.



Joined: 29 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice wallpaper though.
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ryouga013



Joined: 14 Sep 2007

PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, I think they are a type of weevil and they are obnoxious... If you have bought any barley or other oats etc, they may have come in with that. I don't have any of the bugs in my other rooms but the room that had some barely I had for baking had them... then I looked in the bag and saw tons of them in there... it had me searching all my food and tossing out anything that might have been left open ready for contamination
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fortysixyou



Joined: 08 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ryouga013 wrote:
yeah, I think they are a type of weevil and they are obnoxious... If you have bought any barley or other oats etc, they may have come in with that. I don't have any of the bugs in my other rooms but the room that had some barely I had for baking had them... then I looked in the bag and saw tons of them in there... it had me searching all my food and tossing out anything that might have been left open ready for contamination




Yeah for sure. I just can't find exactly where they came from. Possibilities include the organic whole-grain flour, the organic whole-grain pancake mix, the organic whole-grain rice and grains, and the regular white rice.

I store each of these grains in the same cabinet, around which there is a high concentration of these little bastards. I just don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater. It's gonna take some time to locate and throw out the vehicle by which they arrived.
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fortysixyou



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BS.Dos. wrote:
Nice wallpaper though.



Yeah it's alright, but the shitty thing is that I CAN'T GET ANYTHING TO STICK TO IT!

My map of Asia has fallen off the wall over 60 times!


Evil or Very Mad
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