Cigar Beetle

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Citizen B
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The drug store beetle or the cigar beetle. Check your jars.

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I think tobacco beetles are more common in cigars. I believe I read that most cigar manufactuers freeze their cigars once they are rolled to kill all tobacco beetles before shipping to the store/consumer.
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Kind of an oxy-Moran in that nicotine is an ingredient in insecticide.

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simplepipes wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:54 pm Kind of an oxy-Moran in that nicotine is an ingredient in insecticide.

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