Pest warning
Yesterday I went into my pantry to get some oatmeal to make for breakfast and found lots of little bugs, called psocids, on top of the oatmeal container cover. Now they were probably there for days or weeks before I even knew it. These little bugs look like little scraps of cardboard. In fact that's what I thought they were until I paid closer attention and saw them move. If you were to look in your panty, you may think that one of your cereal boxes or any other cardboard box has shed a bit, but look closer to make sure they aren't moving. They are grey in color. So, I further inspected every item in my pantry and they were in the bottom of every cardboard box and some had even gotten into unopened boxes of food. Take your cereal bags and pastas out of your boxes and inspect them for these bugs. Naturally, I took everything out and threw it in the garbage, except for cans and bottles of stuff. I Clorox wiped all the the pantry down and put the stuff back. I checked the pantry again last night to make sure the bugs were gone and they weren't. They are so tiny that they crawled into the cracks of the drawers. So I called Massey and they promptly came and put something down to kill them. So far, nothing is moving! I went and bought airtight containers for all boxed things in the pantry, cereals, cookies, crackers, cake mixes, etc. Go check your pantry for these little pests. It makes my skin crawl knowing I didn't see them a while ago. Good luck.
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