How To Deal With Biscuit Beetle

Okay, there are three or four different kinds of beetle that all look very similar. One is the woodworm beetle. One is the cigarette beetle, which is not so much of a problem nowadays, because so very few people smoke nowadays.

However, the third in the family is the biscuit beetle. Quite often, it's dog owners that will find this when they've got their dog biscuits kept in the bottom of a pantry, and they'll go to them and start seeing holes in the dog biscuits. Or maybe it'll be a proper packet of biscuits, their own biscuits, and they'll go to them and suddenly find holes in through the packets.

These will be the biscuit beetle larvae and similar to lots and lots of stored product insects, the problem is, it's the larvae that do the damage, rather than the actual beetle. Now, these larvae will be able to gnaw their way through cardboard packets into packets of dried soup. They'll go through cardboard packets containing biscuits, and then once they're in there, they won't stop chewing their way through the biscuits.

They may be at the back of the cupboard, and if you start seeing these beetles, which are roughly the size of ladybirds, slightly narrower or slightly smaller, a brown color, then you need to find the source of them. That will mean going to the back of all your food cupboards, emptying them out, looking in every pack, getting rid of everything that's out of date, of course, which is general food hygiene. Once you've emptied the cupboards, clean the cupboards out thoroughly.

Get rid of any residues that may be in the hinges, around the cracks and crevices at the back of the shelving in cupboards. Look for any signs of any insect activity in all the products, particularly products that may be open. Then carry out a disinfectant spraying, cleaning, of the back of the cupboards.

Spray it around the kitchen with aerosol insecticides. If the problem then continues on, that's when you start to need the services of a pest control company, such as CleanKill.