It often happens that bugs penetrate open packages with cereals or flour. This is very unpleasant. Of course, you can sort out cereals, but is it nice to eat porridge from it? So you have to throw away the spoiled product. What to do if a beetle has been wound up in the kitchen, spoiling flour, cereals, vegetables.
You will not poison these bugs, the kitchen is all the same, but you can fight in other ways. First, check out all the cereal and bread in the house. Empty all cabinets and rinse thoroughly, preferably with a cleaning agent.
A beetle that spoils flour, cereals, vegetables, can be a small flour hrushchak. They can appear in products during prolonged storage in open form. Beetles themselves have a size of 3-4 mm. They have an elongated body of red-brown color. They love rye, rice and wheat flour. They eat bran, oatmeal, semolina. Sometimes they settle in buckwheat, rice, dried fruits. As you can see, they are almost omnivores. Due to their small size, bugs easily fall into poorly closed boxes, cans and bags. They lay their larvae in flour dust, cracks, on bags with flour, grain or bran.
For the prevention of such an incident, you can lay in packets with cereal slices of unpeeled garlic. A beetle that spoils flour, cereals, like vampires, is also afraid of the smell of garlic.
Store cereals and flour in plastic or glass containers, which have tight lids. In addition, the food storage area should be well ventilated.
Where the beetle did not have time to settle, spoiling flour, cereals, vegetables, i.e. do not contaminated food, pour it into dense bags and put it in the refrigerator or on the balcony for ten days.
Another way. Cut fresh lemon into slices and put wherever you want. The bugs will quickly disappear.
If there are canvas bags in the house, then bulk products need to be stored in them. However, to begin with, the bags should be properly processed. Make a strong saline solution and boil the bags in it. Then leave them to get wet in this solution until the water has completely cooled. After that, squeeze and dry, but you do not need to rinse. Iron the bags thoroughly with a hot iron. Now you can safely fill in products in them - not a single beetle will start here after the treatment!
A flour spoiling beetle enters our house from a store. If the cereal infected with the larvae lies in a warm warehouse for several months, and then gets into your house through the store, then uninvited guests will appear from the larvae. Most often it is a barn weevil.
Its larvae resemble grains of semolina sticking together. They are almost transparent and invisible in cereals. This beetle, spoiling flour, cereals, vegetables, is harmless at first glance. But the insect has very sharp and strong teeth, which gnaws at any packets. That is why it is more reliable to store bulk product in a glass bowl.
Of course, it is very unpleasant when you have to give your food to such unwanted guests, but do not panic. Just try to apply the above simple tips, and you will forget about this problem forever. Have a good hunting!