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This proves you cant be too careful!

Michal said:
So after I saw this scary topic I decided to do some stuff check, and look what I found on one of Cuban...

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WTH is this? some beetle child, some young tabacco eating fugger?
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Looks like a mite...
Mites are on everything!
They are harmless.
But I am no insect expert!

-Rob
 
Michal said:
So after I saw this scary topic I decided to do some stuff check, and look what I found on one of Cuban...

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WTH is this? some beetle child, some young tabacco eating fugger?
Click to expand...


Looks like mite of some sort... or a really tiny spider.
 
Anthony said:
Michal said:
So after I saw this scary topic I decided to do some stuff check, and look what I found on one of Cuban...

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:0

WTH is this? some beetle child, some young tabacco eating fugger?
Click to expand...


Looks like mite of some sort... or a really tiny spider.
Click to expand...
Man! This is getting ugly, now i have to check my entire stash. ???
 
You might want to drop your entire stash in the freezer in a big ziplock for a couple of days, clean out your humidor, then put them back in the humidor for a week or two before you smoke them. Freezing should kill the beetles and cleaning your humidor should get rid of the eggs. You wouldn't want your whole stash to llok like those two smokes....scary!!
 
Flatsix said:
You might want to drop your entire stash in the freezer in a big ziplock for a couple of days, clean out your humidor, then put them back in the humidor for a week or two before you smoke them. Freezing should kill the beetles and cleaning your humidor should get rid of the eggs. You wouldn't want your whole stash to llok like those two smokes....scary!!
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True, but freezing cigars also dries them out (unless you don't have a frost-free freezer, but they're pretty much all frost-free now and have been for many years). I'd freeze a couple of sticks if I suspected beetles had been in them, but I'd be hesitant to freeze my entire stash unless I was pretty sure the beetles had infected them. It can be a royal pain in the ass to re-humidify a cigar without splitting the wrapper.
 
This is the first I have heard of freezing drying out cigars, although it does make sense given the frost free angle. Still, I've been freezing my entire collection for years. Whenever I get something in it gets double bagged and then 3-5 days of sub-zero, then 2-3 days in the fridge, then unbagged and left out at room temp for a day, then in the humi for 4-6 weeks of stabilization time. Then they get incinerated at a ridiculously rapid pace! LOL
 
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