bugs eating my drum PLEASE HELP

[Carol Lemmon]

If you take an item at room temperature and toss it in a freezer for 72
hours.....should take care of any critters. I don't know the size of your
drum, but perhaps someone you know has a chest freezer.  Otherwize you might
enclose it in plastic with a couple of those shell pest strips inside for a
week or two.

Carol Lemmon
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Cherubini <cherubini at mindspring.com>
To: <jjcardinal at aol.com>
Cc: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 31, 1903 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: bugs eating my drum PLEASE HELP


> JJCardinal wrote:
>
> > I had this happen with imported, wooden statuary.  When I called the
local FDA
> > they said to burn the items immediately.  They were concerned with
infestation
> > of a non-native species.  Being I had quite a shipment of these items I
was
> > required to acquire a burn permit.  These permits are given out first
> > come-first served.  I was allowed to burn them the afternoon I called.
> >
> > They could be very serious pests.
>
> Not likely a unique or serious pest. It's very likely one of the 15 common
> stored product insect pests (mainly beetles) that have near world wide
distributions.
>
> Some flour mills (e.g. General Mills) heat up their plants to 130-140
degrees
> with heaters to kill off stored product insect pest infestations in food
processing
> machinery.  That's why I suggested putting the drum inside a hot car in
the sun
> for a day.
>
> Paul Cherubini, Placerville, Calif.
>
>
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