Unbelievable what I found...

My granddaughter spotted the little sum bitches on a shelf edge, there were some bugs/ants crawling on the shelves, that of course is a freak out moment for the wife.

So everything has to come out, be inspected, cleaned, disinfected, and bug spray applied, several packages and all cardboard boxes, tossed.

There was had an unopened bag of Starbucks ground coffee on the shelf, I decided to open it and put the coffee into a small sealed container which we do for most every package we open.

As I started to peel back the package, out comes a swarm of bugs, little clear ants, ( Ghost Ants) the package goes right into a garbage bag, and we hit it with Spectracide Ant and bug spray, tossed it out into the bin outside, and several got on to the counter, so now I'm squashing them with my meat hooks before they can scatter.

I thought about a picture but damn that was some freaky ass horror movie stuff..

Clear ants?


I have had a bit of trouble with those grain moths, had them in red pepper flakes and gerbil food. Hard to get rid of

US indigenous?

Or did the coffee and ants get packaged outside the US and then imported?

I thought the bags were vacuum packed / sealed. How do the ants survive? And escape the package? Or presumably there was a small hole(s) in the "unopened" package?

Maybe send the lot # or whatever off the package to Starbucks so maybe then can stop this at the source?

Those bugs saved you from a lot of bad coffee.

Sorry, I couldnt help myself.

Was this a flavored coffee? I've never heard of roasted coffee being a place for bugs.
You can admit it. You're already admitting you drink SB.
Nobody here is going to think anything. You're among friends.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Clear ants?


I have had a bit of trouble with those grain moths, had them in red pepper flakes and gerbil food. Hard to get rid of

You might try putting them in the freezer for awhile,
OR
Put into a sealed container w/ dry ice. (Might need a small vent to push out 02.

I've not tried either but something to look into.

ETA: for Marksman41 below this post.
Put into a large cooler size like rubbermaid tub w/ dry ice. Maybe clean out the pantry.
vvvvvvvv

I recently had a similar bug issue because of something in the pantry. My bugs were small, brown ones that pop when squished.

The source of my infestation was a partly-used bag of yellow corn meal. Although I had rolled the paper of the corn meal bag and sealed it in a zip-lock bag, somehow the zip-lock seal unsealed and I'm still killing bugs a week later.

quote:

Originally posted by dsiets:
Was this a flavored coffee? I've never heard of roasted coffee being a place for bugs.
You can admit it. You're already admitting you drink SB.
Nobody here is going to think anything. You're among friends.

For the win definitely.

Pantry moths have invaded our house. We brought them in, they were in a 10-lb bag of peanuts my wife got to feed the squirrels. We made the mistake of opening the bag in the house. Buying peanuts has ended!

We're using these, although it's taking a while to kill them all.

https://www.amazon.com/TRAP-PE...omones/dp/B08KYHRDLQ

I am confused. I can understand having bugs in one's pantry and finding bugs in an unopened bag of coffee, but if the bag was sealed (was it?), how did the latter lead to the former? I.e., how did the bugs in the bag get out to infest the pantry? What am I misunderstanding?

And as aside, any time coffee is mentioned in a thread here, that opens the floodgates about what’s acceptable to put in our mouths, and what isn’t—Starbucks being the most popular to hate among connoisseurs. I don’t normally drink coffee except when I want a caffeine boost at a restaurant breakfast, and I must say that’s something to be grateful for. If I could taste any difference whatsoever among different types, other than whether a brew is strong or weak, that would be just one more thing to complicate my life, and would be worse than trying to find the perfect holster for my carry pistol.

No such problems with hermetically sealed Nespresso pods.
The only coffee that I drink at home.

Well considering it's Starbucks coffee, you should give the ants some credit, since they are just ants and might not know any better.

My pantry? Pitch anything that's not canned! It's only money. Do you really want to eat a bug?