We bought a 20 pound bag of jasmine rice and it has these red or black little beetles with six legs and antennae in it. So, whenever I want to make rice I have to check for them. Does anyone know what these little bugs are called and how to get rid of them and possibly where they came from. Is it the store (it's a little oriental market in the cultural district of the city)? Is it possibly the brand of rice we get? (The bag is white, plastic and has ITC on it but the I looks like a little stick figure, and is imported from Thailand) We always buy that rice from that store but I never see those bugs. Help?

These bugs eat rice, they probably live inside your walls. All you have you do is put the rice in a big bucket and set the bucket out in the sun and they will crawl out and die.

gross, they might be water bugs

eat them with your rice ... good protein

oh thats sick... never heard of that... now im scared... of rice... now... gah thx... well... i trust the jasmine rice that have a deer picture on the rice bag... i mean... i didnt see it crawling out... my mom put in the bucket... maybe its either red thignies or easy shovel...

It is my understanding that some bugs are in flour, cornmeal, cereals and rice when you buy it. I guess that's how yours got there. You need to throw the rice out if there are beetles all through it. (I think they are called weevles). Anyway, I was told that if you freeze these products or microwave the package for 5 minutes and then put them in plastic, air tight containers, it won't happen again. The bugs like the glue that adheres some of the packages. If you have instant oatmeal and packaged gravies, etc. you should also store them in plastic containers or zip lock bags. That should solve the problem.

Well..personally I wouldn't eat the rice and discard it.Look like beetles, but what if they are disease carrying insects?

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Awww, it happens to all of us eventually. Maybe you can identify the culprit here-http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/pantrypests304.shtml

after so long bugs get in .....i had some in my flour gross..