Pantry Pests

Pests in the pantry, oh dear!  Missouri extension tells us this about our friends of the pantry:

"Cereal grain products and other foods stored in kitchen cabinets, pantries or other areas in the home may become infested with insects or other organisms. These food invaders are commonly referred to as pantry pests."

Read the complete article written by Missouri extension here.  It covers prevention as well as a detailed list of pests including:

• Flour and grain beetles: saw-toothed grain beetle, confused flour beetle and red flour beetle, cigarette beetle and drugstore beetle, hide beetle, cabinet beetle, carpet beetle, larder beetles

• Weevils:  seed weevils, grain weevils,

• Spider beetles

• Meal worms: yellow meal-worm and dark mealworm

• Flour moth

• Indian meal moth

• Mediterranean flour moth

• Grain moths: angoumois moth

• Psocids

• Grain Mites

CLOSEUP OF LARDER LARVA
Laura Jesse, Iowa State University
ISU Dept of Entemology


CLOSEUP OF LARDER BEETLE
Dept of Entemology, UW Madison, Wisconsin
 

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