Will Cigar Bugs be in some Pipe Tobacco?
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I have never heard of nor experienced them in bought pipe tobaccos. However, I have gotten them in my homegrown once. The leaf was in thick plastic bags in plastic tubs, and they even bored holes straight through the plastic.
Oh yum. What would cigar bugs taste like if smoked? I'm not interested enough to try one, but would like to hear about it if anyone else has. Since they live in tobacco and eat it, it seems they might taste somewhat like ... tobacco?
Tobacco beetles wouldn’t survive in vacuum sealed pipe tobacco.
Lasioderma serricorne - Wikipedia
Nothing but they have a nice little crackle and pop!
I don't know about pipe tobacco but main stream cigars (even cubans now) are frozen before distribution, freezing the leaf kills the eggs, for anyone that are buying up the current market of farm rolled cubans it's worth noting those aren't frozen and you should toss them in the freezer for 24 hours if you plan on storing them with your regular sticks. Don't know if it belongs here but it is tobacco beetle info.
Yep… I just cleaned them up really well and put down a film of diatomaceous earth. No more problemsMaybe this link can give more information about cigar bugs.Lasioderma serricorne - Wikipedia
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Thank you for giving me additional nightmares. ?
I don't care if there's a little bug there. Either I throw it out if I notice one or I smoke and I would probably not notice that anyways.
Not that I’ve noticed. Unless you light up a stick that’s frozen…?
I would think that since most tobacco is flue cured or cured with heat, smoke etc. that would kill any beetles, eggs. Whereas cigar tobacco is cured by being stacked in piles and taken apart and restacked.
I be received cigars in the mail in the dead of winter where temps were down to -15F, and as long as the boxes are left to acclimate to indoor temps slowly I’ve noticed no problems.
I have found dead little spiders in tins once or twice (twice actually).
I had an issue with some freshly rolled Habanos once.
48 hours in the freezer, then slowly thawed in the fridge got rid of them.
The beetles hatch from eggs that are laid on the leaf.
Tobacco leaf for cigars are minimally processed compared to pipe or cigarette tobacco, which allow the eggs to survive.
48 hours in the freezer, then slowly thawed in the fridge got rid of them.
The beetles hatch from eggs that are laid on the leaf.
Tobacco leaf for cigars are minimally processed compared to pipe or cigarette tobacco, which allow the eggs to survive.
Nope! There are many threads out there, everyone with a different way of doing it, but over the couple decades i've been smoking my experience and that of friends are just throw then in the freezer for 24 hours and then in the fridge for 24 hours and take them out, a lot of my friends don't even bother with the fridge step. No change in cigar flavors.
So where were the spiders...
