How To Deal With Flour Beetles

There's nothing worse at home than thinking, “Oh, it's Sunday. I'm going to bake some cake, going to the back of the kitchen cupboard to get some flour out”, opening the flour, pouring it out into the bowl and realise it seems to be moving with lots of little beetles crawling around in it. These would be the flower beetles.

The Flower Beetle was a pest in bakeries. It still is, in some bakeries. They have regular pest control carried out almost on a weekly basis, carrying out residual spray treatments around machinery where the flour collects to take care of these beetles.

However, in your kitchen, flour should be kept as with most dry products in sealed containers Tupperware containers where insects can't get in or out of if they're just left in the bag open, then there's a risk that flour beetles won't just contaminate flour, they'll go into dry packets of soup, they'll start affecting biscuits, eating off biscuit crumbs. If you find them in your kitchen cupboards, throw the product straight away. You put it into sealed bags, put it outside in further dustbin bags, so that they can't get back indoors, hope around the time the dustbin men are going to empty the bins and anyway, then once your kitchen cupboards are empty, clean them out thoroughly, disinfect them, take all the shelving out.

If it moves out, clean it, rub it down, make sure there's no food residues left anywhere around the kitchen cupboard that these beetles could be living on. They only need a few crumbs of flour, a few little grains of flour left around the hinges in the cupboard and that would be enough to set the process going again. If the problem continues, it may be more deep-seated.

There may be other residues, other products that they could be eating that needs further looking into and that's the stage where you need to consider having a professional pest control company such as Clean Kill into your house so make sure that no products kept in your kitchen cupboard pass their sell by date. If possible, keep all those products in sealed containers. Clean all the shelves on a regular basis.

Don't let spices, flour, other things like that, be tipped out and then just left at the back of the cupboard. Make sure they're all cleaned down properly. If the problem continues, then get in touch with Clean Kill or any other pest control company.

Tried all you can to get rid of those Flower Beetles in your cupboard? Well, this brief yet informative video might be just the thing for you, so pull up a chair and get ready to exterminate those beetles.