freaking beetles!

[dennis569]

Originally Posted by aich75013

"Using a man-made pheromone called serricomin -- which, the creators say, is identical to the sex pheromone of female beetles -- and a powerful food attractant, the traps lure male and female beetles out of your cigar boxes and onto a sticky sheet that seals their doom."

Ii's a good thing the female beetles are bisexual.

LESBOS!

[scottw]

Originally Posted by aich75013
"Using a man-made pheromone called serricomin -- which, the creators say, is identical to the sex pheromone of female beetles -- and a powerful food attractant, the traps lure male and female beetles out of your cigar boxes and onto a sticky sheet that seals their doom."

Ii's a good thing the female beetles are bisexual.

Originally Posted by dennis569

LESBOS!

Do you pour deer urine on yourself before hunting too?

PS: Lesbos rule!!

[mrreindeer]

Originally Posted by Nurse_Maduro

Tobacco Beetles hate Spanish cedar. Best thing to do though is make sure all your sticks are treated before purchase.

yeah, that's what I thought I had heard....about cedar but sure enough I kept one out of the Vino to smoke last night and there was a beatle crawling right on the foot at the end of the cedar wrap - flushed that f'er and stuck the dang cigar in the freezer with the rest in the tupperware

Originally Posted by Nurse_Maduro

And...dude...you're a bit queasy at the thought of smoking a 'gar with a beetle in it, but you'll smoke one that's been shoved halfway up a Brit's nose?

You make a very good point. I must reevaluate.

Originally Posted by ucla695

David just needs to have some JW Blue to warm up to the idea.

Just what the doctor ordered! Right you are.

[Nurse_Maduro]

Originally Posted by mrreindeer

yeah, that's what I thought I had heard....about cedar but sure enough I kept one out of the Vino to smoke last night and there was a beatle crawling right on the foot at the end of the cedar wrap - flushed that f'er and stuck the dang cigar in the freezer with the rest in the tupperware

Ouch. Maybe I need to reevaluate. Hope that's the last of them.

[mrreindeer]

Well, just to sum up on this thread...there were about 8 cigars in the infested tupperdor. Now that I've bombed Scottw, I'm down to 2. Whoa, did that just slip out?

KIDDING.

So I froze the tupperdor and isolated two sticks in particular. The cheapy Orange County rolled cigar with the beetle holes and the Gurkha 1887 that a freakin' beetle was crawling on a day after I noticed the original holes.

Now that the cigars (and tupperdor) have been out of the freeze and have been resting back in the Vino, I've wanted to smoke these questionable cigars first so I haven't been able to get to any new or bombed smokes because I wanted these suckers GONE.

I'm now down to an Oliva Serie V & a Gurkha Warlord (Bobby, want it?? Just kiddin', I'm sure it's chock full of beetles, but perhaps not). I've had the Gurkha 1887, the La Flor Dominicana El Jocko, Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente and a few others and I've found that the freezing (while I was nervous about doing it) had no ill effects on the cigar. They still tasted great and didn't even crackle (what happens when you burn a beetle alive) so I've got to think that the beetle I found on the foot of the 1887 was about enjoy his meal there when I flushed him down the toilet.

It seems he only dived into the cheapy OC cigar and left the others for me.

I still have the two left isolated in the tupperdor and they've never had any contact with any of the other cigars in the humi (and all the others after numerous inspection are intact).

So I can't wait to get rid of these two stragglers, remove the tupperdor from the Vino for good and never have to face beetles again!

[NCRadioMan]

A good way to tell if a cigar has or has had a beetle present is to hold the foot over white paper and tap the side of the cigar. If a beetle has been present, beetle chit will fall out on the paper. It looks like very small black rice pellets. That's the main reason I won't smoke an infected cigar, the chit.

[madurolover]

Also, I believe it is the larvae that eats the holes in the cigars and not the actual beetle. I may be wrong about this though so someone please correct me if I am.

[mrreindeer]

Oh jeeeez Greg....I thought that was PLUME!! Thanks man.

[d_day]

I've been lucky I guess, never had a beetle infestation of any sort.

I'm not against freezling, but have never frozen a single stick, mostly because they all have come from trusted sources. You can bet I'll freeze anything that I have even the least suspicion it's been stored improperly or caroused with suspect sticks.

[bigswol2]

Better freeze the desktop too just to be on the safe side.

[Cigary]

If you're not really sure about the cigars that had the beetles I know of a special buddy who might enjoy them and his name rhymes with sweet,,,which he's not. In case your watcing or reading this post I disavow this post.[IMG]http://www.************.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=28&pictureid=257[/IMG]

[quote=mrreindeer;1995291]Well, just to sum up on this thread...there were about 8 cigars in the infested tupperdor. Now that I've bombed Scottw, I'm down to 2. Whoa, did that just slip out?

KIDDING.

[d_day]

Originally Posted by d_day

I'm not against freezling, but have never frozen a single stick, mostly because they all have come from trusted sources. You can bet I'll freeze anything that I have even the least suspicion it's been stored improperly or caroused with suspect sticks.

Someone I did a split with ended up with some beetles. So, now I've got almost 60 sticks in the deep freeze.

Looks like I spoke too soon eh?

[mrreindeer]

Oh no! Freeze away. It's your only hope.

[lonsdale]

In 35 years, I have had a beetle problem twice. Both times I put all the affected cigars in a zip lock bag, put them in the freezer for 3 days, then in the refrigerator for one day, then back into the humidor. Both times it solved my problem. Hope this helps.

[Nurse_Maduro]

Originally Posted by mrreindeer

Well, just to sum up on this thread...there were about 8 cigars in the infested tupperdor. Now that I've bombed Scottw, I'm down to 2. Whoa, did that just slip out?

KIDDING.

O_O


BWAHAHAHAHA!!

Freezing= good. Glad things worked out...could have been a LOT worse.

Library's closing. This no 'Net is for the birds. How did we ever live without it in the first place?