"DogMa" > wrote in message
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>> In the end, I got some dry ice, threw a chunk into each cupboard, and
> left the doors shut for a couple of days. It worked perfectly - CO2 is
> quite lethal in high doses.
>

Thanks...
Ok, the CO2 seems to be a method to get rid of what I may have, but how does
one stop them getting into the tea in the first place ?

Hence the reason for asking if the presence of minute bugs, such as this
one, is normal. Obviously weevils are not good, but this one wasn't a
weevil - not like you get in flour anyway.

This is the first time I have seen any evidence of any such beasties in the
2 years the tea has been stored. The stash is only opened say once a month,
if that - my daily requirements are left out on the bench in clay caddies.
My point here is that the opportunity for critters to get in is small -
however the one I saw would easily be able to get in. I suppose also that
the bugs may have been in the tea when I bought it.

The one I saw could, I suppose, be the one and only..who knows..

...another thing to worry about !

Cheers
Mal
Oz

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