Visit our Popular Forums

SmartMove · 29-09-2015, 17:50

Oh Wise Ones, I haven't posted much since we started cruising 3 years ago, but CF is always are go to source when we have a problem and I certainly have one now. In the craziness of getting the boat ready to leave her on her own while we went back to the States for three months, I overlooked two boxes of whole wheat pasta (one open). We came back to an invasion of weevils. I have gotten rid of the pasta and anything else that was suspect and vacuumed and washed everything down. Friends looking after our boat noticed them (thought they were ants) and bombed the boat. They reported many dead, but we still have more live ones. Anyone know how to rid the boat of these pests or am I doomed to live with them forever? There is no food source on the boat for them now. Can the larvae develop without a known food source? Thank you for your help!

I wasn't sure where to post this, so admins feel free to move it.

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

FSMike · 29-09-2015, 17:56

Put a whole bay leaf in any container that might develop weevils. Should solve the problem.

Nick & LA · 29-09-2015, 18:28

A bay leaf? Really?

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

Nick & LA · 29-09-2015, 18:30

In addition to everything you've already done, I'd get a couple lizards (geckos)

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

SmartMove · 29-09-2015, 18:30

What about the ones wandering around the boat?

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

SmartMove · 29-09-2015, 18:31

Nick and LA, I haven't seen any geckos I could kidnap back to the boat here in Grenada.

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

DeepFrz · 29-09-2015, 18:43

Put Bay leaves in each cabinet and storage place as well as in the containers.

leftbrainstuff · 29-09-2015, 18:44

+1 for bay leaves

Sent from my SM-N900T using Cruisers Sailing Forum mobile app

SmartMove · 29-09-2015, 18:47

Bay leaves it is! Does that kill them or just make them go someplace else?

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

SmartMove · 29-09-2015, 18:48

And where would that someplace else be? Inquiring minds want to know.

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

DeepFrz · 29-09-2015, 19:01

I don't know but after getting a box of cereal that was infested I put bay leaves in my cupboards and haven't seen any since.

SmartMove · 29-09-2015, 19:16

Definitely on it then -- before I go to bed tonight!

Sent from my iPad using Cruisers Sailing Forum

**JPA Cate** · 29-09-2015, 19:27

I never found bay leaves did any good. If the eggs are there, the larvae follow.

Something I would try is allethrin mosquito coils. That just might do it. Otherwise, keep vacuuming them up and drowning the vacuumings. Eventually, you'll get rid of 'em. It's always better when you're at the boat and can take immediate action.

The next thing I'd try is some cockroach surface spray. I'd hate using it belowdecks, but I couldn't really live happily with constant weevils.

One time we came home to a weevil infestation, where they had died, and were a horrid soupy mess. I wound up burning incense in those lockers, after it was all cleaned up and nothing else I tried got rid of the stench.

Good luck with it, what a PITA!

Ann

paulajayne · 29-09-2015, 23:46

Never tried but would a greenhouse / sulphur candle work?

Place on metal tray in middle of cabin - close all vents etc, light it and retire for a couple of hours.