This keeps happening and it is so gross! Every time I put some potatoes in my kitchen, especially in my potato crock that’s in the most convenient place to keep potatoes, something burrows into them. It leaves holes right into the potatoes that are roundish and maybe the size of a pencil. It’s been going on for probably a year now. Doesn’t always happen.
I assume it’s a bug of some kind. I’d never actually seen one until last night, possibly - I’d put the potatoes in the crock in a bag, opened up the bag and something flew out. I didn’t get a good look at it - it was a dark colored bug, skinny, somewhere between the length of my pinky nail and my thumb nail. Of course, it could be an innocent potato bystander.
We live in South Carolina so we also have fat sassy flying cockroaches but I’ve never heard of them chomping up potatoes.
But you’re not supposed to seal potatoes! You’re supposed to put them in a cool dark place with ventilation.
It doesn’t seem to happen when I put them in one of the way inconvenient places to put potatoes that are on the opposite counter, which is why I figured it was something in my kitchen and not in the potatoes. However, if I don’t put any potatoes there for a damned month and then put some potatoes there, bam, holy potatoes Batman.
Either a weevil or grain beetle of some sort. They are common in grains and potatoes. They may be in there when you bought them. I’ve found them in dry cat food. That’s why I freeze cat food for at least a day, to kill the buggers.
Wait, really? I mean, please understand that like all South Carolina households we are full up with Periplaneta americana. But quite frankly they’re all too big to fit in these holes.
I dated a woman whose daughter had a school experiment, sweet potatoes supported over a glass of water with toothpicks. They were full of water bugs in tunnels.
