Infestations
I threw away a bag of rice today. I wouldn’t do that normally, because I love rice, but when I opened this bag of wild rice, some of the black grains got up and walked away.
The whole bag was infested with some sort of little bug. I wasn’t going to eat it.
Now, if you’ve been reading this blog, you know that I am fascinated by animals, of all sorts. Bugs, however, I just don’t like. Never have. I know that there are some people who keep large spiders, or giant hissing cockroaches, as pets, but I’m not one of them. I know, from my studies, that the Arthropoda are a vital part of the world’s ecosystems, but that doesn’t mean that I want them in my house.
Or in my rice.
I don’t know what type of insect was in the bag. They were black, and smaller than a grain of rice, and fairly fast moving. I know that they can subsist inside a plastic bag, with no water, eating nothing but uncooked dry rice. Sounds pretty bland, as far as existence goes, but the animal world does contain all types….
But not all of them are types that we want to find in our homes, or in our pantries, or in our food. I’m going to go now, and head over to the store to pick up some good tupperware/rubbermaid type containers for better long-term, bug free, food storage.
