Food Pests

There are many different insects that will quite happily eat the contents of your larder or warehouse or manufacturing plant! Several types of moth and beetle are involved. These are commonly referred to as ‘stored product’ pests, because they like eating products that are usually stored. Such as nuts, rice, pasta, semolina, roasted nuts, dried fruit, chocolate, flour, wheat, barley, seeds, pulses, and other bulk products.
At home, insect infestations tend to be localised. If you spill some cumin seeds and they start moving around the floor by themselves, then you have a problem. Likewise, if you open your semolina packet and the semolina is all joined together with silky threads, you’ve got some stored product action going on.
In processing plants, food factories and supermarkets, the scale of the infestation can be immense. Common pests include biscuit beetles, Indian meal moth, flour beetles, dried fruit beetle, flour mite, various warehouse moths and spider beetles.
Successful treatment involves a combination of cleaning and spraying. At home, it is the opened and seldom used bags of food, hidden away at the back of the cupboard, that are at risk. Remove them and you may help solve the problem more quickly. Industrial premises need a much more integrated plan.
We have some highly qualified technical staff who specialise in this, so call us for an indepth explanation, because this is a big subject and infestations may not be as easy to control as this narrative suggests.