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Mowee

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If anyone has a beetle problem, please take some photos for me. (If the article gets published you'll get the photo credit.) I have been trying to find definitive beetle information and while there is a lot of stuff out there, I have been told by credible sources most of it is close but no cigar. ie it may not work. So I am trying to find THE experts on beetles and get their information. Will let you know the results when I get them. But I do need help with photos.

Thanks
 
One thing you may want to do is buy some cheap cigars... leave them in a hot place (80 degrees + ) for a week or so... then let them sit for awhile, get everyone (beetle wise) hopefully forming. And then just leave a couple control sticks out, and freeze a couple others. Then, see if the controls hatch (may take awhile, something like 10 weeks right?) and then see if the ones that were frozen do... if the control sticks hatch and the freezer ones don't... we have some info on freezers and eggs.
Chris
 
La Lunas come personally recommended as beetle incubators for any future experiments. :0 :whistling:
 
verhoevc said:
One thing you may want to do is buy some cheap cigars... leave them in a hot place (80 degrees + ) for a week or so... then let them sit for awhile, get everyone (beetle wise) hopefully forming. And then just leave a couple control sticks out, and freeze a couple others. Then, see if the controls hatch (may take awhile, something like 10 weeks right?) and then see if the ones that were frozen do... if the control sticks hatch and the freezer ones don't... we have some info on freezers and eggs.
Chris
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LOL...... I'm afraid your experiment won't work unless the "cheap cigars" you use actually have beetle eggs. You can put cigars in 100 degree and not have beetles if no eggs are present in the cigar in the first place.

I've posted this picture many times.

MVC-300F.jpg
 
Wow, that's a huge loss man. I'm sorry.
Also, I thought MOST cigars had the eggs? Just dormant until they get enough heat?
Chris
 
moki...I rad the CA article...there also was one in Smoke. But according to people I've talked with...they ain't exactly right. I am talking with people who make a living with dried specimens and also seeing what the science says. A lot of the stuff bout beetles seems to be almost urban legend. I am trying to compile the latest assessment on what is being done at factories and what we can do as consumers.

And Allofus123...sorry bout your loss...but that picture would work.


As for La Lunas...alas I have a bundle of the original pre release fuertes and they are still beetle free.
 
Mowee said:
moki...I rad the CA article...there also was one in Smoke. But according to people I've talked with...they ain't exactly right. I am talking with people who make a living with dried specimens and also seeing what the science says. A lot of the stuff bout beetles seems to be almost urban legend. I am trying to compile the latest assessment on what is being done at factories and what we can do as consumers.
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Okay then. Read these:

http://www.fcla.edu/FlaEnt/fe86p437.pdf

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/stored...ette_beetle.htm

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2083.html

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IG116

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasioderma_serricorne

...and read the sources they cite as well.

As for photos, you can use Chuckie if you want:

http://www.vitolas.net/displayimage.php?pos=-677

There are a few photos of him up there.
 
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