Pantry Moths

[GhostHawk]

I have learned to vacuum seal anything that could bring in with it grain weevils.

No air = baby's don't live long enough to grow, make more babys.

Freeze works if you have the room.

Beans, rice, sugar, salt all get vac sealed in plastic bag and put away in cool dry place for long term storage.

Once in a while I'll forget to seal a bag of flour and then we are doing what you did. Anything in a cardbord box is suspect.
They eat right through those. I saw a pair of pinholes in a 4lb crystal sugar sack. I don't think he liked what he found so he chewed out again.

Jiffy corn muffins, pizza mix we dumped a bunch of.

Pasta we mostly dumped into a plastic strainer with fairly large square holes.
Sifted the bugs right out of my wifes elbow macaroni and tri colored rotini.

Spaghetti I keep in a plastic container.

Bayer makes a home bug spray that drys and leaves a film. If a bug steps on it they die.
So our pantry got cleaned out, sprayed, left to dry before we put things away.

Countertop gets treated every spring to keep little ants and things down.

[waksupi]

Put bay leaves in with your dry goods.

[hiram]

Moth balls or moth flakes.

[1I-Jack]

Put bay leaves in with your dry goods.

+1

Used to have the bug problem but started putting a couple of bay leaves in with flour, corn meal, rice, etc and haven't had the problem since. Even when these things are stored in plastic coffee containers.

[jonp]

Bay we got.

[OldBearHair]

I confess to never having heard of them. I suspect that like cockroaches they don't do well at higher elevations.

As My wife and I took over the Kitchen duty at NM Boys Ranch, I went to the kitchen late at night and discovered roach bugs. Put down Boric acid powder by sprinkling around all moist area (drains etc.) Wet a cloth and lay it on the floor in an out of the way place and make a dike of Boric Acid solidly around it. I hear that the roaches get the powder on their feet and and then lick it off, killing them. Took care of the problem. Oh, A lot of cardboard boxes containing the groceries were brought in . We kept up with the Boric Acid thing with ner a problem 26 years. Oh MT, Albuquerque is at 5000 feet altitude and it seemed to have no effect on our roaches. I suppose it needs to be a higher altutude. No offence, Thankyou Bill