There are two main types of grain beetles.
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Pantry bugs are pests commonly found in the kitchen food cabinets and kitchens.
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Be on the lookout for each of these and take immediate action if you see them crawling or flying around your home.
Merchant grain beetles which fly and sawtoothed grain beetles which don t.
Pantry pests are insects that tend to gather around and in food stored in pantries and cabinets such as flour.
Inspect all of the food packages stored in your pantry and cupboards for bugs.
Where there s food there might be critters hey pests like to eat just as we do.
They are basically found where food items are being kept.
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Know your pantry pests.
These pantry pests feed on and contaminate stored food items thus making them unhealthy for human health.
The most common pantry pests are moths weevils and small beetles.
Practically almost every dry food item in your home is susceptible to being infested.
Here s how to get rid of the most common pantry pests.
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Clearing the infestation 1.
From their name you might imagine that these tiny beetles like to live in containers of flour cereal or rice and you d be right.
As their name implies merchant grain beetles are commonly found feeding on grains such as cereals and products containing corn or corn meal.
Grain beetles and weevils are tiny.
These guys are also similar to another pantry pest weevils which are also beetles.
If you find infested.
Remove everything from your pantry.
This will hence decrease the entrance of the bugs and will help greatly in repelling the tiny black bugs out of your kitchen.
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