Bugs in the croup: where do they come from and how to get it out?

Each thrifty and clean hostess can one day find in her kitchen in spices, cereals and other loose uninvited “guests”. Bugs can be a real disaster that will destroy food stocks. Therefore, it is necessary to arm yourself with effective recommendations and tips to get rid of pests quickly and permanently.

Unpleasant insects start up on the kitchen shelves pretty quickly and also multiply rapidly, regardless of the number of stored cereals. When pests are first detected, it is necessary to promptly take measures to destroy uninvited “guests”.

The most common way to get bugs in food is the option of buying products that have already been affected by these insects. Only such a winged pest as a mole can penetrate into a dwelling on its own.

As a rule, bona fide manufacturers, before packing their products, process loose materials with special compounds that destroy pests, if any. But not every company carries out a similar procedure with goods, due to which products with insects appear on store shelves. The risk of buying such flour, pasta or cereals increases many times if the product is purchased in supermarkets or in markets by weight.

This is due to the fact that product contamination can occur from various products, for example, from dried fruits or dried mushrooms lying next to each other. Spices fall into a separate category of risk not in their original packaging, but purchased from private producers, where in the manufacture of sanitary and hygienic standards leave much to be desired. Under the threat of being infected by harmful insects, opened sachets with additives that have been in the drawer for quite a long time are found.

Another option for the penetration of bugs in the house can serve as ventilation holes, exhaust hoods, as well as even minimal cracks in the walls and floors, through which small beetles can easily get into the house from neighbors.

In order to timely establish the presence of pests in products, you should pay attention to the following signs indicating the presence of beetles:

• presence in the package with cereals visually distinguishable lumps;
• stir in a bag of pasta, porridge or flour;
• the presence of small holes on the package;
• deformation of the grains - holes appeared on the croup;
• a living brown pest may be indicated by a specific brown patina on cereals and other loose products;
• the presence of porridges and loose long cobwebs;
• when considering the packaging of cereals can be observed at the bottom of the grain, which turned into flour.

Obviously, bugs appear only in those places where there is access to food. Moreover, the bait for them can be not only cereal in packs or bags, but also the minimum remnants of cereals, spices or flour on the shelves.

However, in cereals, seasonings and pasta, not only creeping pests are inflamed, but also flying. This concerns the food moth. In addition to the usual porridge, these bugs are not averse to crackers, bread and sugar, in some cases, an uninvited “guest” can be found even in instant cocoa or coffee.

The increase in the number of insects dangerous to humans occurs rapidly, with the increase in the level of damage to food. However, in order to remove the bugs forever, it is necessary to clearly define its appearance, and on the basis of this, select the appropriate means to combat it. To establish the type of pest, it is necessary to study the main ones.As a rule, kitchen shelves with supplies of grain grinders, food moth, red mucoed and flour bug are dominated.

The first species has wings, usually insects are very small, have a light color. In most cases, they are found in bakery products, but they can exist and produce offspring in dry herbs, drinks, and cereals. If a bread grinder was found, we can safely say that they started as a result of the purchase of low-quality products, sometimes the pest gets into the house in weighed pet foods.

Based on the name, you can guess that a flour bug is usually found in flour, but it happens that an insect chooses a pack of starch as its environment. Food contamination occurs by the entry of insects into packaging made from other loose materials that stand on the shelf of a house or on a counter in a supermarket. This can be semolina, oatmeal or any kind of flour. Sometimes the bug settles in buckwheat or dried fruit. The eggs of the female insect prefer to lay in the crevices of the furniture or in the grains themselves, so the spread of pests occurs very quickly.

The red-headed mucoed is a small bug that turns out to be in a dwelling if low-quality bulk food is bought for feeding cats or dogs. Gradually, he settled in cereal or flour. Insects like spoiled products, so they actively reproduce in bulk, which are stored in the wrong conditions.

The food moth looks like a gray butterfly, in an adult state an insect can have a body of about 10 centimeters. Lives pest in buckwheat, semolina, flour and rice. Such pests are taken in the kitchen due to gross violations of food storage requirements.

Today, there are quite a few effective options that allow you to deal with uninvited "guests" in kitchen cabinets, so every hostess, faced with a similar problem, can choose the most successful method for themselves. Of course, the chances of a positive outcome increase the timely detection of insects in the grains. In addition, it is important to exterminate pests, not only in the packages themselves with cereals and cereals, spices and flour, but also to process furniture and nooks, where pests could lay eggs.

Firstly you need to remove all supplies from the cabinets and carefully examine the contents. This will help to identify the main site of the cluster - the source of infection. If black or brown pests are present in a single amount, it is quite possible that the grains can be preserved after a special gentle treatment of cereals, which will not harm human health. Such methods include the impact on products using high or, conversely, low temperatures, as well as sifting through a kitchen sieve. In the case of a large number of beetles, the entire contents of the cabinets will have to be disposed of. .

Mandatory processing is necessary to expose all shelves in the cabinets, as well as containers designed for storing cereals. This can be done using a soap or soda solution, in some cases, you can use a weakly concentrated solution of table vinegar.

Among the large list of ways to combat insects There are several effective recipes.

• Frost. This method will bring results only in the case of a small cluster of bugs that hit the house not so long ago and did not have time to give offspring.The essence of the method consists in preliminary sifting of the products, after which it is necessary to replace the packaging of porridge, pasta or flour and send them to the freezer for 15–20 minutes.
• The use of microwave ovens. Since this home appliance is present in almost every kitchen, the effectiveness of its use in pest control has been proven by experience. An uninvited guest is destroyed by processing the cereal in the microwave under high temperature. To do this, bulk supplies should be poured into special dishes for use in a microwave oven, and then placed for 5–7 minutes for processing inside. After a time, you can check the result: if the bugs are still alive, then the processing time should be doubled. Further products should be sifted to get rid of the larvae, eggs and the pests themselves.

• The use of saline. This method is suitable for the destruction of beetles in legumes. The solution is prepared by dissolving two tablespoons of edible salt in a liter of water, after which the product should be placed in a convenient container and pour salted liquid. After some time, the pests will be floating on the surface of the water.
• Borax. Folk remedy that has been used for quite some time. It is completely harmless to humans, but for pests is a real poison. The use of borax involves the disposal of all contaminated materials, processing of shelves, after which the tool must be decomposed inside the cabinets. You can prepare it as follows:
  • crushed millet, borax and sugar, taken in the same quantity, are combined and rolled into small balls;
  • The second option involves the use of dry yeast, sugar and borax.

• The use of boric acid. To prepare the composition, it is necessary to combine the flour, sugar and acid in the same volume. The tool should be laid out on plates and put in the closet.
• Products that have a rich smell. Harsh aromas are good insect repellents. The essence of use consists in placing in citrus peel boxes, peeled garlic cloves, bay leaf. As a fragrant effective seasoning, you can use nutmeg.
• The use of plants with a rich aroma. Such crops include dried lavender, fir, rosemary or cloves. Instead of a dry plant, you can use the essence and oils of these plants. This option is more pleasant from the point of view of man, and as a poison for insect cultures will help to destroy all kinds of pests. As an option, allowed the use of natural antiseptics, which are calendula and chamomile.

Along with folk and mechanical methods of fighting insects in the kitchen, there are specialized store-dressing compositions that will help with a large lesion, as well as when the aforementioned means have not brought the expected result and the bugs continue to destroy the cereals and multiply.

Drugs that have earned a good reputation are considered to be Karbofos and Antizhuk. The latter composition will have a complex effect, as it can destroy not only food bugs, but also insects that damage wooden surfaces and furniture in the house.

Another highly effective formulation is Rogneda. It is a disinfecting compound that has a wide range of applications, therefore it is recommended for fighting food bugs, as well as cockroaches and ants.

To reduce the likelihood of the spread of bugs in household products, it is necessary to observe some preventive measures. These works should include:

• regular inspection and cleaning of the contents in the kitchen table;
• timely disposal of expired products;
• Compliance with the recommended periods and storage conditions;
• heat treatment of the purchased products, flour, pasta and other bulk;
• failure to store bulk together with dried fruit.

Some people, after detecting a small number of pests in flour or porridge, sift them, heat them in the oven and use them to make dishes. But, as experts advise, the use of such, even washed and processed cereals is best to give up. This is explained by the fact that in the mass still there are decay products and the vital activity of insects, which in themselves can be even more dangerous than a living individual.

As for a product such as flour, it is very likely that even after passing through a sieve, insect larvae will remain in it, which cannot be identified with the naked eye because of their small size. As a result, such flour becomes affected by toxins, which can cause allergic reactions, malfunction of the digestive system and other negative situations related to human health.

Any product requires proper storage conditions after release, as well as at home after its purchase. The most appropriate option for placing the croup would be using perforated bags or glass containers with a lid. A good container for cereals, flour or sugar are cans or boxes of metal or plastic.

More and more modern housewives are returning to the storage options for such products by our ancestors - buying or sewing special bags made from natural fabrics. In such a material there is good air circulation, and insects, as a rule, do not start.

It is worth avoiding the acquisition of a large number of bulk products, because the shelf life of such porridges, such as buckwheat or semolina, is only six months.

However, the most important issue regarding the storage of cereals with minimal risk of detecting bugs in them is following the recommendations regarding storage periods, air temperature and humidity in the room.

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