My grandparents use those plastic cereal containers...
...you know, you decant the cereal in to them and then you can seal them properly, better than cardboard boxes...

Anyway, they're never cleaned. In the bottom of the cornflakes box lurk the remains of muesli, perhaps a few coco pops... the last bowlful from any box looks like pick and mix. This would be fine- I mean, it's cereal, right?

So, when I was fifteen, I noticed some odd black specks in the bran flakes. I tell my grandparents about it, thinking they'll deal with it, and just stop eating the stuff.

A few weeks later the cereal is still there... and so are the black dots. I ask my grandparents about it and they say it's just "burned bits" and it "still tastes fine". I disagree, but don't argue the point... and don't eat the cereal.

After a few more weeks the level of cereal in the box is depleted, having been eaten. After another week the black specks hatch into a swarm of baby moths.

The boxes got cleaned after that. ;-)
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:38, 9 replies)

click
i don't like this..*shudder*
(bryo, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 10:51, closed)

A swarm of baby moths
sounds cute and made me go 'aah"
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:01, closed)

Baby moths?
You don't get baby moths. You get moth larvae (maggotty little feckers) that pupate after which a fully grown moth emerges....
(Kitcar memeless in a meme filled world, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:37, closed)

They looked like moths
We get them quite a lot in our kitchen- usually lurking around the bird seed- and they definitely come from little specks. They could be some species of pointy fly.
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:43, closed)

Indian Meal Moths
repulsive little fuckers. Black dots that turn into red-headed larvae, that turn into grey/brown moths.

We had an infestation of them at work once - people would buy boxes of breakfast cereal to eat when they were on early shift, then just leave them sitting around in the office kitchen. One moth + 20 open boxes of carbohydrate goodness = a kitchen full of these little fuckers:

www.uoguelph.ca/pdc/Factsheets/Insect/IndianMealMoth.htm
(ragged, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 14:13, closed)

That's right blame the indians

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 14:54, closed)

Now worried
Might have to bin all the opened cereal at home now (or buy more milk and eat it all this weekend).
(langers, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:05, closed)

That's the one.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 16:21, closed)

Oh!!!!!!!!!
jesus.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 15:20, closed)