Rice Weevils

[CP]

They're all over the kitchen. Anyone else ever have these?? If so, HTH do you get rid of them?

http://www.goldminerpest.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/rice-weevil.jpg

[snide]

Kill them with fire.

[Mirroredshades]

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[Sea Six]

No, CP... just you.



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[Iron Chef]

If it were me, I'd pretty much do a scorched earth on my pantry. Clean out EVERYTHING that is a grain (this includes cereal, oatmeal, etc.). Clean the pantry, spray it with some long lasting bug spray and also consider hiring an exterminator to make quarterly visits. I have one and I have to say it really helps keep the bug population at bay.

[Bucwheat]

My mother had them several years ago, hard to get rid of,like Iron chef says dump everything grain.

[C5Nate]

Clean out all food stuffs, pitch flour, rice, etc.

Drop one of these in the kitchen with the cabinets open.

V Clean-Out Insect Fogger 6 oz -Indoor Bug Bomb, fogging, fogger, fogging spray - 6 oz. - Pestmall (http://www.pestmall.com/v-clean-out-evercide-insect-fogger.html)


Keep all rice, flour, etc in the freezer or fridge.

[Iron Chef]

Keep all rice, flour, etc in the freezer or fridge.

Great idea there. BUT if you don't have enough room in the fridge for that, try OXO Containers. Easy to use and airtight.

[Kerrmudgeon]

You may have to get your house tented and fog bombed by a Pro bug company to make sure, ala Florida style. They look like a cousin to the cockroach.:willy::ack:

[Bill]

Ouch. I just went through something similar recently. I noticed a few flying bugs in my pantry. I cleaned and inspected everything thoroughly, and the culprit turned out to be a brand new, unopened cardboard container of Quaker Oats. I took the plastic lid off the top and.....DAMN. WTF? I went ahead and treated the back of the shelves with insecticide, cleaned, and put all the untouched grain related stuff in the freezer first, then the fridge, even though it all appeared fine.

Unpleasant to be sure, but it was a good excuse for a thorough scrubbing of the pantry.

As to regular bug control, Chef is right....frequent treatments. I try to spray the perimeter of the house regularly, about every two months, with Permithryn, a termiticide, which will kill just about anything that might want to take up residence in your house. I don't like treating inside, but after the Quaker Oat fiasco, that rule had to be suspended.

[CP]

Thanks. Bug guy does come regularly but only spraying for roaches. We cleaned the pantry and threw out a lot of pasta, etc., that was crawling with the little fekkers.

I guess we imported them from the store.

[RED-85-Z51]

Spent a month getting rid of an infestation of grain moths. I have a cockatiel and one of his new bags of food apparently was inundated with moth eggs and larvae, i opened it up one day and it was crawling with moths. I tossed it, cleaned the cage...put in fresh food, but dammit those bastards seemed to always be on the walls, ceiling, counters.

I found em in a bag of cornmeal so i tossed it, couple days later they were all in the pantry so I took it all out...cleaned the shelves with clorox/water...and tossed everythign grain. Turned out they had bored a tiny hole in the side of a NEW can of Quaker oats and it was a fuggin party in that can.

After that, it only took about 3 days to manually kill the stragglers...

All cornmeal and self rising flour, goes in the fridge now. All cereals go into plastic sealed containers.

Small quantity stuff goes into mason jars with screw on sealed lids...

[RED-85-Z51]

Here is what i did battle with...

http://billclarkbugsperts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AngoumoisGrainMoth.jpg

[Uncle Meat]

Ouch. I just went through something similar recently. I noticed a few flying bugs in my pantry. I cleaned and inspected everything thoroughly, and the culprit turned out to be a brand new, unopened cardboard container of Quaker Oats.My wife opened a brand new box of cereal one morning and flying insects similar to moths came out!

U.M.