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Green-Moo 02-20-2008 01:20 PM

Bugs in my beans
 
Last year I grew lots of beans at home, dried them & stored them in airproof glass jars. However, upon opening them many of the beans have been eaten by some sort of small insect. The bugs are dead in the jar. Presumably they were in the beans already as there's no way they could get into sealed jars afterwards, but I really didn't see them & I checked the beans carefully for signs of damage etc first.

Does anyone know how I can spot them & avoid them next time? It's a real shame to have a whole jar ruined!

riskey58 02-20-2008 11:14 PM

bugs in beans
 
I really don't know how to stop this. But I feel for you because I would die if I had bugs in beans or any other food. Hope you find a way to stop this.

SageMother 02-20-2008 11:35 PM

You might need to rinse the beans before storing them. Often, the tiny eggs can't be seen.

Liza 02-21-2008 12:58 PM

Perhaps you can buy a mild insecticide that does not harm your beans to use on those that you intend to store over a period of time.

katharina 02-21-2008 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SageMother (Post 809)
You might need to rinse the beans before storing them. Often, the tiny eggs can't be seen.

I can see this happening with home grown produce, but I've had it happen with *store* bought things like noodles and rice and even some other things. It's so disgusting to find it but there's nothing I can do about it. (Oh, and flour, of course... ugh!)

tater03 02-21-2008 09:33 PM

What a pain that must have been. To do all that work and then they end up not being good. I would agree mayber rinsing them right before you jar them.


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