Delivering guaranteed Pest Control for pantry and food storage pests with responsible methods for the safety of family & pets in Greater Phoenix and Tucson Arizona.
Pantry Pest – Pest Control Steps
- Prevention: Inspect incoming items and packaged foods for pests. Make sure your home or business is in good repair and there is proper ventilation to reduce moisture content in food. Store your grains and packaged foods in plastic or Tupperware-like containers. Clean up spilled food products quickly, and rotate {use} your food storage items!
- Sanitation: Immediately remove all suspected food products. **Pantry pests can be killed by placing infested containers in the freezer at 0* F for 4 days.
- Control: Professional pest control is usually required to get total control of Pantry Pests, and prevent re-infestation. Clean out infested pantry or cupboards before service. Crack & Crevice Pest Control treatments are usually required, depending on the type of stored product pest.
Stored product pests are usually called “Pantry Pests” because they are often in the pantry and cupboards where food is stored.
Stored product pests are usually beetles {there are 87 species of stored product beetle pests}, and moths {there are 23 species of stored product pest moths}. There are also 12 mites species, and 2 species of flies. These pests usually enter your home on or in food products like cereal, grains, dehydrated fruits, dry pasta, etc. They will get into cereal or grains and then lay hundreds of eggs. You may not know you even have an infestation till after the hundreds of bugs hatch and start roaming your pantry and kitchen. This is usually not something you easily miss! Larvas crawling up walls or little moth-like creatures all over the house, especially in areas where food is stored.
Prevention Tip: Repel pantry pests by putting bay leaves in containers of flour, pasta, rice and quinoa.
Delivering Pest Control for Food Storage Pests in Phoenix, Mesa, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Chandler, Glendale, Queen Creek, Maricopa AZ & surrounding areas.
