Tobacco beetles?
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It just looks like a bad wrapper to me.
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Move the band over the holes if they affect the cigars performance. if you can only cover one hole at a time hold your finger over the other one
@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.2 -
The second pic looks like it was patched at the factory. And not patched well either. The first pic just looks like a hole caused by contact with something. Beetle holes are most often symmetrical. And as long as you see no dust, it doesn't look like you have beetles. To check for beetle dust, (poop) lay the cigar, hole side down, on a white sheet of paper on a firm surface. Gently tap the cigar horizontally on the paper to see if any dust will fall out of the hole. This dust would be a fine dark red powder. Very dark. Next tap the foot, on the paper to see if any dust falls out. And when and if you cut the head, check there for dust too.
A fun DIY project is to patch holes in cigars with glue made from fruit pectin. It's sold in grocery stores and is meant for use in canning. And you'll need to have scrap cigar wrapper leaf to make the patches. (You could cut a few inches off a churchill foot to get some wrapper for patching) Take a small amount of the powder and mix with water until you have a paste. Coat one side of your patch with the glue and slap it on. Practice makes perfect. Here's a video.
https://youtu.be/IfxhG-Wsd44
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Thank you for the responses and suggestions. I was over thinking it after looking into the beetles after finding out about them in the 102 things newbs should know thread. I'll have to pick up some pectin and give it a shot.0
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I don't think I've ever seen any actual holes, but the photos usually depict nice little round holes; yours look too jagged and irregular. And they may be small enough to not interfere with the smoking either."I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis0
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I found them once, froze the fiver and pitched the one with a hole. The hole went through the cello, too.
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One sure way to know is to smoke it. If a little critter comes out, well then you know. But when in doubt separate it. But it won’t harm anything to smoke it unless bugs make you squeamish. Just pick off the little bugger when he crawls out.1
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Been there, done that. Nothing wrong with a little extra protein in your diet. Actually, I just picked them off with the tip of my pocket knife blade and squished them on the leg of my Levi’s.Rhamlin said:One sure way to know is to smoke it. If a little critter comes out, well then you know. But when in doubt separate it. But it won’t harm anything to smoke it unless bugs make you squeamish. Just pick off the little bugger when he crawls out.2 -
Hopefully I never have to do that but at the end of the day it wouldn't be the end of the world. I used to work on an orchard and would come across bugs inside the fruit halfway through eating it sometimes. It would gross out some coworkers to the point they stopped enjoying the free fresh fruit lol.jlmarta said:
Been there, done that. Nothing wrong with a little extra protein in your diet. Actually, I just picked them off with the tip of my pocket knife blade and squished them on the leg of my Levi’s.Rhamlin said:One sure way to know is to smoke it. If a little critter comes out, well then you know. But when in doubt separate it. But it won’t harm anything to smoke it unless bugs make you squeamish. Just pick off the little bugger when he crawls out.1 -
Craig Smith and I talked about this over lunch a couple weeks back. Apparently, the DR is going through a beetle crisis this year. It's a cyclical thing. All the factories are affected. People are losing a lot of money fighting this. One place shuts down several days to fumigate, gets rid of them, then they migrate back in a few days from the next place. According to him, a beetle can travel eight miles, so all the factories would have to shut down and fumigate simultaneously. Concerted action is not an island virtue, so that's not apt to happen. I've heard of the same prob in PA and in FL.
Might just be the year for bug holes.
Hope they don't show up in my leaf stash.
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Just so you know, if you smoke a cigar with a beetle in it, you are smoking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds ...... of beetle sh*t.
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But does it taste good?
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Taste IS subjective......Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?3
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I’ve smoked cigars that I know had tobacco in there that someone in the field used to wipe their bum.2
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Those ↑ are the ones that have a "hint of manure."@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.7
