Mystery solved – Hive and Nest

For a few weeks there has been a foul, foul stench in my pantry.  It smells like rotting something.  Maybe a tiny animal corpse, maybe an onion, I don’t know.  All I know is that when I open my pantry, the smell hits me, and try as I might, I can’t find it.  After a couple of minutes my nose becomes immune and I can’t smell the stink at all.  So I move a bunch of cans and packages around and then give up.  

My pantry is quite roomy, but it’s not gigantic.  I should have found the source of the odor by now.  Or it should have gone away.  But it continues to reek. 

Tonight I went into the pantry hoping for an extra onion to materialize out of thin air.  I pushed aside all the paper plates and napkins left over from parties-gone-by, and there was the stinky culprit!  A bag of rotting fingerling potatoes marinating in their own goo.  I picked up the bag and was pleased to see a bunch of squiggly larvae underneath. They’d leaked under a neighboring bag of sugar (25 lbs. down the drain!)

It’s a good thing I have a strong stomach because that is the grossest science experiment ever to have happened chez  Jennie.