Wholemeal Flour is ALIVE!!!

[echokilo]

I have just taken a kilner jar of wholemeal flour down from the kitchen cupboard (it's been there for about 3/4 months) and just as I was about to start weighin it out, I notice the surface was ALIVE with little things!!! About the size of a flea (I guess) and literally swarming over the surface!!!! Yeugh!!! What are they and how did they get into the sealed jar?? Am repulsed!!

[1eyedjack]

Maggots in cheese are good
http://en.wikipedia.o...Casu_Marzu_cheese.jpg
Weevils in flour were welcome in old naval times

[tamborine]

extra protein with crunch

[woozer]

I have a real problem with weevils - could I just put the flour i the freezer and leave it there until I need it ?

[momac]

Put sage leaves wherever you store flour...and they should keep away..that's what I read after finding my bag of flour full of mites...but still don't trust keeping flour for any length of time now.

[mandymandy]

ewwwww! Is this why on cookery programs and in recipes they tell us to sieve the flour?

[craft1948]

The daughter found some in herbal tea bags................

[Sir Alec]

We once had a tupperware container, supposedly airtight, where we stored semolina. When I came to use some, it was moving like shifting sands because it was full of baby ants! Still makes me feel sick just thinking about it!

[Jan1957]

I've got a bag of flour thats been in my cupboard for a while. I am not even going to look, it's going straight in the bin!!

[echokilo]

Feel like I have done my civil duty today and provided a public health warning service!! Seriously, they were horrible- flour is gone, as is the kilner jar - couldn't face reusing it. Shall only be buying when I need it in future to avoid the issue - hoping the flour is fresh when I buy it of course!!

[flitty]

We had them and they are flour mites. Best thing is just get rid of all flour products and clean the palce they were stored. I did this and problem solved as the mites have no where to live.

[vonda]

Some kind of mite, I think. Not uncommon, though.