Help with Insects from climbing branch!

I have just set up a glass display tank with a grapevine climbing branch. The branch WAS supposed to be pre treated/sandblasted to get rid of any nasties. I bleached it, blow torched it, and sprayed it with mite spray just to make sure, well 3 weeks later the tank has small flying bugs all over.

I did a google search and they look like "wood burrowing weevils!" I can't believe it...any advice please??? I have put the branch in the garden for now, if i can kill them off, i would like to keep the branch, as its a perfect fit in the tank. I dont believe they are harmful to my BP, just wondering if anybody else has had the same problem.

Regards Scott

bake it in the oven on 250* for 30 minutes. If that doesn't work, I would remove it completely.

Boil the branch, if it can take it without warping completely.

JonV

You can always "BURN" them mauhahahahahaha

So you treated it with mite killer and they are still there? What brand mite killer did you use?

Are you sure this is what they look like?
http://www.woodwormtreatments.co.uk/...ing-weevil.htm

If you have a fireplace, you can use it to get a good fire going the next time the temps drop in your neck of the woods...that's about the best thing those branchs are good for.

Thanks for the replies. The branch was too big to go in the oven(i did try leaving it half in, but the heat didnt get up enough), so i did get the blow torch on it, after pouring boiling water on it, and in a beach bath overnite, these things still hatched!! amazing:taz:

southb, thanks for link, yes that is what they look like.I can't be 100%, but they look like that, same colour with long feelers

Any alternatives if i have to ditch it, as my BP likes to explore and climb.

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Thanks for the replies. The branch was too big to go in the oven(i did try leaving it half in, but the heat didnt get up enough), so i did get the blow torch on it, after pouring boiling water on it, and in a beach bath overnite, these things still hatched!! amazing:taz:

southb, thanks for link, yes that is what they look like.I can't be 100%, but they look like that, same colour with long feelers

Any alternatives if i have to ditch it, as my BP likes to explore and climb.

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I would suggest ditching the branch then. They sell lots of branch type cage furniture at the chain pet stores, you could hit one of those up.

Plenty of places online that sell flexible artificial reptile branches for cheap. Don't go paying $20 for a branch from one of the chain stores though...

When is the last time you cleaned the enclosure? Is it possibly coming from the subsrate?

Thanks, this climbing branch was bought from a chain store here in UK. We don't have a lot of choice being a small country. everything is usually made/supplied by either exo terra or lucky reptile. I will have a search for artificial products. The insects are definately from the branch. The first branch had no substrate, it was on newspaper. Thanks

Scott

It always amazes me how many different types of insects there are.