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Old 06-21-2006, 12:23 PM   #1
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Nitrogen killing beetles?

Some casualties of Katrina were flooded first edition books, swamped 60 year old LPs, and cuban cigars and wine that went 6 weeks in 90+ degree temperatures.

A friend was talking to me about how a friend of his lost about $200k in wine that got cooked. I mentioned that a lot of people got attacked by beetles. We went through the deal of beetle eggs being in many/most cigars, and how they tend not to hatch below 75 degrees.

He asked me, "Why don't you just put them in a chamber of pure nitrogen for a week?", theory being that if the beetles/eggs are starved of oxygen, they would die. I didn't know if that would work or not.

I RTFF, and there wasn't anything on it. I know that the lack of O2 should kill the beetles, but I don't know if it would kill the eggs.

Does anybody know if this would work?
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