You may not be aware of this, but your box of cigars might be in peril to a tobacco-eating predator. Many aficionados of cigars have woken up to discover tobacco beetles (Lasioderma Serricorne) infesting their valuable cigar box! This dreaded insect feasts on your treasured cigars, and could not care less if they are cheap drugstore brands, or imported delights. Nicocure stop smoking patch is a new generation aid to help you give up smoking.
So, what exactly is a tobacco beetle, and where exactly does it come from? Well, the tobacco beetle exists in all countries where tobacco is produced and thrives on tobacco plants, infesting the leaves before it is processed. Tobacco beetles thrive in hot climates, and especially in the warm countries Caribbean countries where much of the world’s tobacco is produced. When tobacco beetles reproduce, they give birth to larvae that are white and up to 4 mm long, which later proceed to devour their way through tobacco leaves. The tobacco beetle has been proven very highly resistant to insecticides, despite all efforts to rid crops of this dreaded pest crops by tobacco producers.
Many cigar enthusiasts have opened their cigar boxes to find that their cigars have been eaten through, because the tobacco beetle has survived into the finished product. Sometimes the presence of the tobacco beetle can be detected through the presence of small puncture-like holes on the wrapper. The punctures can make your cigar resemble a flute.
If your cigars are infested with a tobacco beetle, what can you do? Well, your microwave may be the answer, research has shown that it could be the best defense in destroying tobacco beetle larvae. Make sure to dispose of all the infested cigars in your collection before using the microwave, then you can proceed to treat the rest of your cigars. Make sure that you microwave all of your cigars together, never individually, so that you can rid the remaining of your collection of this pest. Warm the cigars up in the microwave for a good three minutes, then throw them in the freezer. After the cigars have been in the freezer for a good 24 hours, take them out, let them thaw, and proceed to put them in a humidor. This treatment has proven effective in removing the presence of the tobacco beetle. Examine each cigar individually after removing it from your humidor, and make sure that it shows no signs of infestation so that it is safe to smoke.
