Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania, USA.
Found these crawling around in a container of instant oatmeal packets that haven't been opened in a LONG time. They traveled with the person who eats the oatmeal -- he went all over the place (possibly around the country) with them a few years back. But they've been in a plastic container here for years, probably. (Very very rarely opened.)
Was doing a kitchen cleanup to explore for pantry moths (they've been around recently) and I found these instead. (Yay me.)
I tried taking photos and videos -- they looked better on my phone screen. Not opening up the trash bag to try again, so hopefully there's some indicator here to help ID them.
I have a video with 4 or 5 segments (from different packets). I could share that somehow if that would help?
They were VERY tiny. Like smaller a poppy seed, I think.
They were moving very fast. Some looked brown, some looked ivory/beige.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
ETA: Here's a link to the videos: https://imgur.com/a/video-of-bugs-on-oatmeal-packets-sHxDfce
This message was edited Apr 24, 2025 5:52 PM
