Could not see the picture, but it sounds like a tiny grain insect. Feet are on the front end of the body just behind the head. These are an indication that you are buying feed that is over 1 year old. They are harmless to your birds. Just feed up all your existing feed. When you get new feed in leave it in the bags that it came in. If you can clean out your bins and put them out in the hot sun for a few days. If any eggs are there they will bake in the hot sun. These little critters can not survive intense sunlight. If you can not put you feed bins out in the sun than carefully try a heat lamp. If the bins are in an area that the birds can not go sprinkle some seven dust about the area around and under the bins. This should prevent their return. It is always a good practice to clean bins between fillings-one should never add new feeds to old feeds. All you end up doing is possibly allowing some of you feed to get old and possibly infested with insects and molds. Old feed can have dangerous mold in it that is not visible. If this continues to be a problem check the temperature of the area that you are storing your feed in. If it is above 85F move your bins to a cooler place. Feed looses it nutritional values when stored in warm places and the warmth hastens the incubation of all kinds of insect eggs that are always present in feeds. Hope this helps. Virgil

I waited and waited to get a catalog from H&H this year, but nothing. And web page gone. The Grand Oaks Herb Farm site is no help--if it actually had any connection to H&H (their site is just publicity for their various programs). If H&H is gone, I'm very sorry as I got some wonderful and unusual plants from them over the years. And loved their equally wonderful and unusual catalog.

dbv, I've never grown one of these, but if something dosen't do well for me after a reasonable amount of time, I pitch it. It's too frustrating to fool with them constantly, without any rewards. Just a thought. :) arum

It was definitely a FOODIE trip! I arrived at 11am in Oregon City, my mom and daughter picked me up. We ate lunch around 2pm in Aurora at a wonderful BBQ place. Shopped the antiques, visited the museum. Quick stop to pick up a dinner contribution. Dinner with my aunt & uncle of homemade sausage/veggie soup, bread and wine. Dessert was baklava and brownies with german chocolate frosting. The next morning we went to Bob's Red Mill for breakfast of Veggie Omelet, Fruit bowl, cottage potatoes, buttermilk biscuits, rye toast. We shared it all family style. Drove down the road 1/2 mile for the Bob's factory tour. It was supposed to be about an hour, we were the only ones there and the tour guide spent 2 hours with us! Very cool!! Back to Bob's store for some shopping, the across the street to Dave's Killer Bread outlet store (and factory). Here we are leaving Dave's, with Bob's in the background (pure dumb luck)!! From there we drove to Penzey's and helped stimulate the economy a bit. Lunch at Sweet Tomatoes, a salad buffet with some pasta and soup! Ugh. Stuffed. We dropped my daughter off for a short time so she could walk her dog. Mom & I hit a grocery outlet store. Picked DD up again and went to H-Mart! I bought a few things, but not a lot. Fascinating place, but it was getting late and Son-in-law is now "on call" for dinner! LOL We met him at a Sushi Station and they treated mom and I to sushi (a first for me as well as the sake!). We all walked across the street to Whole Foods afterward and wandered around there for a bit. Mom bought some cold smoked salmon. Goodbye's to DD and SIL. The next morning, mom & I had a light (relatively speaking) breakfast and headed to my house in the car. We dropped off a bunch of stuff there and buzzed over the the casino that is just 45 minutes from my house. Back home by 5:30 for Cioppino, salad, homemade bread and wine with my hubby! Whew! What a whirlwind of fun! Here's the sum total of what I bought (not showing the daikon radish and bean sprouts in the fridge). (Mom bought for me) 2 cookbooks from Bob's, dried mushrooms, white popcorn (barely visible in front of the mushrooms) flaxseed meal, mung beans, fried garlic, yellow curry paste, rye berries, artichoke hearts, garlic wine vinegar, "love bombs" (hoagies from Dave's), 2 other Dave's breads, and 3 lids for sprouting seeds and my freebie "flax scoop" from the Bob's tour. Too much fun! Deanna