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bildo792

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was just smoking a padron corticos that i have had for a while and saw a few small holes in it. i instantly thought beetles and threw it out to come inside and inspect the humidor it was in. With my mag light i meticulously checked every cigar in the humi and the entire empty box. Thank god it was just a scare. After looking at the cigar again it seems to just be the wrapper having issues. I kept telling myself at least its in the smallest humi with all my cheapest smokes. This is the first time i have ever worried about beetles.

as for my take on the corticos i will have to smoke another before i can be much of a judge :?
 
On another thread there was some good discussion on whether or not to leave on the cellophane wrappers in the humidor. Would the possibility of beetles be a reason to leave them on, or does it not matter??
 
they will go right through cello, that was the first thing i checked when i came inside. The cello had no holes in it.
 
The same thing happened to me a few months ago with a Serie R. I was never so paranoid in my life!
 
That is scary! I read something somewhere that said if you take the "infected" cigars and put them in the freezer for a few days, it will kill the bugs and you can put them back in your humidor. Is that true? I'm not too sure how I'd feel about smoking dead beetles! :bigpuke:
 
yes that is true, i believe you should take them from the freezer to the fridge and let them thaw slowly. I am so happy they weren't beetles.
 
I would be too. That would put quite a damper on smoking for a while, especially if it was in your "good cigar" humidor!
Glad it wasn't!
 
I am glad it was a cigar scare, about the only thing that would scare me Poopless would be if my wife or girlfriend told me they were knocked up ! hahahaha Enjoy, Vince
 
scadams said:
On another thread there was some good discussion on whether or not to leave on the cellophane wrappers in the humidor. Would the possibility of beetles be a reason to leave them on, or does it not matter??
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When larve hatch, they eat their way out of the cigar, they do not eat there way back into other cigars. The damage is done by the beetle eating it's way out. The reason for freezing affected cigars is to prevent further larve from hatching. The hatched beetle no longer is of danger to your cigars. If it were to lay eggs and if they were to hatch there is no danger of the beetles eating there way into unaffected cigars. What tends to happen is a beetle eats it's way out, you open your humidor and it flies off and you never even see the little sucker. Just a clarification in case you are interested.

Cobsgirl, in regards to smoking dead beetles. If you have been smoking very long at all you have probably smoked a few larve. Maybe the occasional dead beetle, most frequently identified by a pop in the cigar when smoking. And have probably smoked other things very disagreeable to the psyche, but not dangerous. Just another FYI.
 
glad to know even if it was a beetle i will be ok. thanks for the info.
 
Vince, "Poopless would be if my wife or girlfriend told me they were knocked up!", I had to read that twice...the first time through, I interpreted that as meaning you had a wife and girlfriend simultaneously! The wife and girlfriend knocked up, now that would be poopless!
 
they're really small right? its no worse than how many insects you eat in your life that gets caught up in food, its just unavoidable. i have heard that you supposedly eat 8 spiders in your life while you are asleep. the fact that i have probly eaten a spider doesnt bother me that much, just the fact that one of those ugly mofos was crawling on me in my sleep. if i had been awake he would have been burned at the stake for that.
 
It is estimated that there are larva in every cigar they just dont always hatch. Most quality manufacturers freeze there cigars before shipping after aging. In fact, Davidoff in Connecticut apparently has a large freezer where they put the cigars when the come in.
 
Freedom Guns, at my age no matter who gets knocked up causes me to wince !! hahaha, as for a wife & girlfriend at the same time , well ........ hahahaha , I am not superman , Enjoy, Vince
 
I heard it was something likeyou eat 8 spiders in your sleep per year! I can't stand spiders so I try to avoid even thinking about that statistic. I can light up a cigar, take a shot of whiskey, go to Canada and shoot myself a bear but ask me to kill a spider and I scream like a little sissy girl! :oops: :eek:mg:
 
spiders arent that bad, i just dont like the real fast ones and i wont get near a poisnous one. i just shoot them with my soft air pellet gun lol. we get a brown recluse spider up here every now and then. i make damn sure to kill those bastards.
 
Brown Recluse :shock: Man those things do some major damage if you get bitten by one.
 
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