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A food safety expert weighs in on flour bugs, also known as weevils, that can infest your pantry after one TikToker found her flour infested with the crawlers.
These winged bugs love to lay their eggs in pantry items such as flour, grains, cereals, dried fruits, and pasta to give the newly hatched larvae a ready-to-eat food source, Daniel Kiefer, Ph.D ...
Hidden inside a single cotton T-shirt, pantry moths can pupate to adult form. After larvae or moths have been found, it is important to throw out all food sources not in very tightly sealed containers. Moth larvae can chew through plastic bags and thin cardboard, so even unopened packages may become infested. [2]
The confused flour beetle is very similar in appearance and habit to the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum and the destructive flour beetle, Tribolium destructor.Both the confused flour beetle and red flour beetle are small, about 3–6 mm (1/ 8 + 1 ⁄ 4-inch) in length, and reddish-brown in color.
In both species, the eggs are white or colorless. They are very small in size and have a sticky outer covering that causes certain food particles to stick to them. The larvae have six legs, with two pointy projections toward the caudal end. Finally, the pupal stage (a cocoon-like form) is usually a white or brownish color. The beetle life cycle ...
A food safety expert weighs in on flour bugs, also known as weevils, that can infest your pantry after one TikToker found her flour infested with the crawlers.
Adult drugstore beetles are between 2.5 and 3.5 millimetres (3 ⁄ 32 and 1 ⁄ 8 in) long and have a reddish-brown colour with a cylindrical body. The beetle looks superficially similar to the cigarette beetle, another ptinid beetle regarded as a pest, but can be distinguished under magnification by the lack of serration on the antennae and the presence of clubbed segments on the last several ...
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