smokemifugotem
BoM July '10
I just fired up a Epernay and found a nice size beetle hole in it...just got it from the shop...put it in humi for a minute...grrr
LIVE Beetles!!!! ARGHHHH
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smokemifugotem
BoM July '10
before I smoked...nothing got into the humi...thank god! But I could not believe my eyes when I found it!
Mitch
BOM 2/09-Keeper BOTtLe
Keeping it cool is as much about controling an outbreak as it is about preventing one. If you get a bettle or two they are likely to much on a few cigars in one small area of your humidor and lay thousands of eggs in those cigars. If those eggs don't hatch, and you throw out, freeze or smoke that area, you are good. On the other hand if you don't notice the couple of bettles until their thousands of eggs hatch you can loose hundreds of sticks. Even if only a few eggs hatch at that temperature instead of thousands, it's a huge diffirence.
Don't remember the exact life cycle of these things, but you can be into the third generation before you catch it, if you are not in that humidor every month.
Don't remember the exact life cycle of these things, but you can be into the third generation before you catch it, if you are not in that humidor every month.
I am in the humidor every day.
how I found it was, I was moving my cigars to my new Aristocrat...When I picked all the cigars out of that side of the humi, I noticed fine black powder laying below a few sticks.
I then took a closer look at the sticks and noticed a hole in one of the Westies. Upon tapping the foot a bunch of powdered tobacco came out. I inspected the other westies and 2 others had "tracks" or what I would compare to is ruts made by a tire in mud, in the foot of them. There were no beetle hole in those two. Then I saw the Live beetle and about died....
No other cigars had any indications of damage or powder upon tapping the feet. I really believe that it was confined to those cigars. To be safe, I am freezing that entire section and watching all the rest.
Take home point: If you find any powdered residue in the bottom of your humi, take a closer look at your sticks and check you humi often as even tat's can have beetles!!!
