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As the Passover season is fast approaching, shoppers are keeping a keen eye out for products that will assist in enhancing the joy of the holiday of matzos and national liberation. Ask any homemaker and they will tell you that one of the more tasty and healthy options on the Passover menu is Quinoa.  Generally sold in sealed plastic bags, Quinoa however, is not immune from assiduous checking for bugs as is rice and other flour and wheat based products.

In this video, one can get a closer look at those insidious creatures called “weevils.” These bugs meld in quite naturally with the Quinoa as they look like little grains of rice, but they are brown and they crawl around.

A tell tale sign that one may have weevils in the home is if you notice that your flour is tangled in something that looks like a cobweb. That means that an infestation has taken place.

The female weevil lays eggs in the wheat kernel and it can sometimes survive the milling process. The eggs will hatch if they’re in warm or humid conditions, or have reached their maturity. The flour bugs eat the grain and then seek to mate… while eating more grain. Weevils aren’t particular about what they eat. If you find them in any other seemingly sealed spot, they’ve weaseled their way out of their original infestation spot and meandered to your rice, or cereal, or coffee. Essentially, this means what you’ve already eaten was infested too.

Weevils are also not particular about containers. Thin cardboard boxes that cereal comes in, thin paper bags that flour comes in and even the plastic bags inside cereal and cracker boxes are no match for weevils.

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