An (un) enjoyable trip around the perifique this afternoon. :-( Back to the question Small ones are Psocids and are found in larders all over the country, a symptom of the house being too warm, larders should be kept at 10 degrees or so. The bigger (ant sized) ones are probably not weevils but Confused Flour Beetle (sp. Triboleum) (so called because they are confused for weevils and their trail pattern is random). Weevils have long noses, CFB don't. They are a symptom of worn out non functioning machines at the mill where it was made. Neither are harmful and the CFB will indeed raise the protein level! In fact anyone who's eaten wholemeal bread will have eaten some CFB, there can be up to 30 bits in each loaf.
I'm genuinely impressed, Mr Banana Learn something every day! Do we know why the beetles are confused, BTW? Childhood issues? Rock-bottom interest rates? We should be told...
No baking for me & the occasional times that Ms.T bakes something you could sell the results to the armed forces as munitions.
wonder why supemarkets dont put it on cold shelves , surely if eggs in all flour, they have already bread
The point is the eggs SHOULDN'T be there but inevitably some get through the kill process (normally an entoleter). It is only the eggs that are small enough to get in, adults are crushed and ground in the process (hence the brown bits). If it's stored cold then they can't hatch and grow but they're still there!
mmmm crushed adults i wondered how they got the crunchy bits in , im not booovered either way really just wondered how they get in their n why they hatch from some flour n not uvverz , fanks experts n top expert and im still bakin bread, pudinz, n cakes watevvvva
