Oh joy, a couple months ago I bought some grain for my poultry and was it ever FULL of weavels. Those weavels crawled into the house and every so often I'll put something on the counter, and a weavel appears on the counter too...

Question is, how does one get rid of the weavels? I have to constantly buy grain for the poultry, and now those things are everywhere in my garage and kitchen... haven't ever heard of a "weavel trap"....anyone here ever have a major weavel problem?

Mulchy, Sorry for your weevil dilemma...but in the course of trying to find some information for you, I came across a company that I plan on bookmarking for future references. Their product (Di-Secticide - I know, it sounds a bit ominous) is basically diotomaceous earth. But (they claim) the most pure, organic and safe.

Hopefully, there's something on their website that can be of help to you. They not only deal with controlling weevils (and a plethora of crawling, softer-bodied buggers) on a mass grain storage scale and for large farms, but home use as well. (As in your case, of unknowingly bringing in some grain/feed product that already had weevils in it to begin with and now you can't get rid of them in your home...guess that sounds sadly familiar, huh?)

Make sure to click on "Where & How DE Can Be Used": http://www.whitemountainnatural.com/index.html

Let me know what you think.

gardenz

i don't know how to get rid of them aside from throwing everything that is infested away & putting everthing else in teh freezer for a few days.
i'm on a bulk cooking group mailing list. everyone in the group seems to put flour & dry goods into the freezer for a few days when it 1st comes into the house. it kills off whatever eggs maybe residing in the flour/grains.
i know that can be a lot of freezer space, but could you do it in phases? get one spot that is free & put post freezer stuff there & cycle the rest thruthe freezer for nearly a week? or maybe borrow a freezer from someone else. or.... depending you the weather... set it out on the shady side of the barn for a few days, in something weather tight that will let the cold get thru.

Lessee, put 50 lbs of laying food in the freezer, then put 50 lbs of scratch in, then 50 lbs of wild bird seed, then start all over the next month....I think I'm going to put the grains out in the garden shed instead. That way the bugs will have to travel way too far to find my kitchen! And I'm NOT buying animal feed at that particular feed store any more as other people have told me about buggy grains too....

the diatomacious earth sounds promising...good web link ms. gardenz. Thanks. That stuff sounds perfect for my blossoming spider population too. Tried those so called "spider traps", but didn't catch any spiders on those at all. Just dust and assorted crawling things. Spiders and weevils (aha, THAT's how you spell it, I knew I had it wrong but was too lazy to look it up in the dictionary) and their death bell is tolling...