milliAmp

Recently Aimee and I have had a bug problem, or ‘mite’ problem. Grain Mites is seems. The problem with these things is their size. They are infinitesimally small, like a piece of moving dust.

They were only detected when the dust I thought was on a porridge box in the pantry appeared to be moving on second look. I decided to set up my digital camera and take a few frames to see if I was just going batty or if the dust was actually moving. It was. Anyway, after much intarnetting, I decided to clean out everything, I vacuumed the pantry and all items in the pantry 4 times and the 5th time I decided to go the whole hog and use soapy water as well, getting all the crevices and everything. Meh, anyway, long story short, they’re still around (that was 3 weeks ago) and our pantry is in two piles of boxes in the lounge [one possibly still infested pile and one 'newly purchased goods' pile].

They grow best in high humidity so I bought a dehumidifier and have been using it a lot lately, ’tis good for other reasons including easier to heat rooms and no condensation on the windows in the morning.

Anyway, I finally got around to compiling a few pictures of the buggers using macro-mode on my camera. These particular ones were on a wine bottle, I don’t exactly what they like about the wine bottle but whatever.

I also made 3 gif animations of the buggers, here is the first. Unfortunately it is only a few frames long:

The others are larger in file size:
* bugs2.gif [249kB]
* bugs1.gif [979kB]

This is an ongoing saga.