FOOD AND PANTRY PESTS /FOOD
INVADING BUGS
What are
these flying moths in my kitchen?
Indian meal moths
are the most common.
They are small, about 5/8 of an inch..
Light, grayish brown, with two light bands across each forewing and
uniformly gray hind wings.
Females lay about 100 eggs.
They spin a pupal cocoon.
Sometimes people see what looks like maggots crawling around just before
they hatch into moths.
They invade cereal, flour, nuts, seeds, etc.
What are these little round bugs all over my kitchen?
They could be:
Rice weevils
Grain beetles
drug store beetles
cigarette beetle
 (1)
Khapra Beetle, Trogoderma granarium (Dermestidae)
(2) Carpet Beetle, Anthrenus (several species, Dermestidae)
(3) Cigarette Beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (Anobiidae)
(4) Drug-store Beetle, Stegobium (= Sitodrepa
(Another stage of carpet
beetle)
The most
common kitchen bug is the drug store beetle.
All are little round bugs that get into food.
Dull, reddish-brown, cylindrical beetle, 1/10 inch long, sometimes with a
long snout and elbowed antennae.
The can have well developed wings and a be strong flier.
They invade food.
Sometimes hidden sources are a mouse nest in the wall or under cabinet
where pet food was stored by the mice.
What are these little bugs in my carpet?
Carpet beetles/ They come in a variety of stages.
But people usually complain of these little bugs on the floor throughout
the house.
How do you treat for food and fabric bugs?
Clothes Moths
Detecting
Moth Damage
Moths digest keratin, the "hard" protein of which
hair, horns, nails, claws, hoofs, feathers, and scales
of reptiles, birds, and mammals are formed. All of these make up natural
clothing that we wear. Moths also attack a wide variety of other natural
materials and even some synthetic ones. they often use paper, starch, cotton or
silk to build cocoons.
It is the larvae of clothes moths that attack
fabrics. In the house, they feed on wool, hair, or feather products wherever
they have access to them. Clothing, carpets, furs, blankets, upholstery, piano
felts, brush bristles, and lots of other items are subject to their
attack.
They also feed on synthetic fabrics and fabrics from botanical sources if they
are mixed with wool. The larval stage lasts for one to three months.
Clothes moths dislike direct sunlight. Moths
cannot complete their normal life cycle on clean, processed wool. It must be
contaminated with some nutritional supplement such as food, beverage, sweat or
urine stains. Such stains provide the proteins, the mineral salts and the
vitamin B complex essential to the moth.
Clothes moth larvae chew holes in fabrics. The
holes appear to be scattered about the garment and are generally small.
(Carpet-beetle holes, on the other hand, usually seem to be concentrated in a
few areas and can be quite large.)
Clothes moth larvae prefer to feed in protected
locations such as under collars, inside hems, on the backside, or in cracks at
the edges of woolen carpets, under furniture, and inside storage containers.
We use a combination of two methods. Pheromone traps and
IGR’s.
What is a IGR?
Insect Growth Regulators (IGR's).
It works by disrupting the growth and development processes specific to
insects.
It causes sterilization of adult insects.
The active ingredient is Hydroprene.
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