This morning, after table time was done, we went and picked buttercups on our way to the mailbox.
We inspected two extremely large mosquitoes (which I suspect aren't normal mosquitoes and probably have another scientific name that I'm unfamiliar with), mating on the shop door. They were very poised and hung together perfectly still on the door. It was a good opportunity for me to give my younger children a quaint lesson in reproduction.
We also inspected our weevils that we found yesterday in a bag of rice left over from the hurricane. That's what happens when your brother-in-law tells you that a ship load of rice is stranded in a New Orleans' harbor after Hurricane Katrina and there will be a rice shortage. You run to the store and buy a lot of rice and store it in your pantry only to realize eight months later that it was a false scare. Now you're left with lots of rice, lots of weevils, and a new science study inside your pantry.
store your rice in your freezer for a few days, then you can take it out.
that will kill the weevils.
;->
Posted by: marcie | April 04, 2006 at 01:07 PM
Thanks, Marcie.
That's another thing we did yesterday. LOL
We poured the rice into freezer bags---picking out weevils as we went (after I assured the children they do not bite or sting---and placed the freezer bags in our freezer.
I've been told they are not disease carriers...just pests...but I'm wondering about the lavaes still inside the rice kernels.
Anyone know?
???
Posted by: Cay in La. | April 04, 2006 at 01:15 PM
hmmmmmmmmmm..not sure about the larvae.
When I buy rice or flour I store it in the freezer because I had the same problem you had and it was a mess!!!
Posted by: marcie | April 05, 2006 at 06:03 AM