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[quote=Anonymous]11:33 is the closest. You have Meal worms - or what she called Pantry Worms. They come into your home on any type of cereal you might bring in; flower; rice; and your hamter or canary food. Once they are in your home, they will continue to reproduce in your pantry until you see them crawling up the walls from the pantry in the 100s. I believe our meal worms were brought into the house in a burlap bag of rice by an African nanny. BUT it can be cheerios, cat food is a big carrier - almost anything. Here's the photos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal_worms IF this is what you think you have, first thing to do is call the exterminator. They will tell you in prep. for their visit, you need to go through everything (and I do mean everything) in your pantry, cat food, wheat, rice stores and see if you can find the original source. In our case the infestation was so bad that we couldn't ever find the source. But you must pull everything out of the pantry and examine every single box, including opening the top to see if one is inthe top. After a while you will get used to what they leave behind so you tell pretty quick what box may or may not be contaminated. Everything that is contaminated (and if the exterminator is good they will mention cruchy dry dog or cat food) goes into plastic bags, sealed tightly and right into the trash. That's going to take you some time. THEN the exterminator comes and sprays the pantry and any other areas where you have seen them. The exterminator will not go through your boxes for you or spray the boxes. If you have a small child, I would leave the house for a few hours. After the pantry and any other storage areas have been sprayed and dried, only then can you move back in the items that you are now 100% are not infested. The exterminator usually tells you to put each item in large seal-top bags so if you didn't catch it, you will see the worms at the top of the bag trying to get out and can avoid a second spray. They also say to transfer any dog or cat or pet food into plastic sealed containers when in the house. That way if you open te container and see the worms you can toss it right out. Sorry - to be long-winded but I've been through this 3 times and it is gross gross gross. Now all sugar, wheat, cereals go right into plastic containers as does animal food. There is an insurgence of these worms because of the influx of food coming from China. Hope that is helpful. [/quote]
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