Tobacco Beetles and Baggies?

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Originally Posted by Wallbright

I received some cigars today and I was thinking about just double baggie-ing them in gallon sized baggies and putting them in my humidor. The cigars are cello wrapped so my question is if there are beetles could they eat through the cello, through the first baggie, and the through the second baggie infesting my humidor?

I don't really want to freeze these but I will if the baggie thing doesn't work.

Cello: yes - it won't even slow down the larvae.
Plastic bag - not totally sure here, don't think so though. At least not heavy duty bags. Saw a ziplock freezer bag full of beetle ridden sticks over the weekend, they didn't seem to be able to get out of the ziplock. Although if you were to open the ziplock bag, then any mature beetles that have developed wings could fly out of the bag, and since they don't just eat tobacco, any number of other things in your house are now at risk. Paper and certain foodstuffs in particular.

If you are that worried about possible beetle problems, you're probably just better off freezing the cigars for 4-5 days and that way you don't have to worry about it.