I love your channel! Can you make more of these 😂🙏🏼 putting a request in for life cycle of a flea, mosquito, stink bugs, cockroach, and any other pest. 🐜
These lil guys were driving me crazy. I finally found the source.The larvae chewed lil holes in some oatmeal packets in my pantry.They fly. They're attracted to light / window seals. Glue boards won't help unless you find the source. Good luck!
How do you know when you buy rice or flour that there are no bugs in it. I want to dry can rice and flour, but worry about bugs being in the rice and flour. Can they develop on my Mason jars?
When purchasing dried food goods at the store, always check to see that the manufacturing date is not over 1 year and that the package looks clean and well sealed. For flour packaged in paper containers, check beneath the paper flaps for signs of insect activity. Once you get the items home, you can stick them in the freezer for 3-4 days to make sure that nothing in the packager is alive. Clean flour, rice and other dried food goods placed into sealed mason jars will remain pest free if the jars are sealed properly.
Great question @thechatterbox1293! The short answer is that warehouse beetles live for less than 1 month in the adult stage. Looking closer at the details, females generally live longer than males (8-23 days for females and 10-16 days for males), unmated adults live longer than mated adults and both males and females live longer in lower temperatures. Information source: Rai, P., 2014. Effect of elevated temperatures on Trogerma variabile Ballion life stages (Doctoral dissertation, Kansas State University).
You can either bag up the pasta and discard it into an outside trash receptacle or if you don't mind cleaning out the dead insects in the pasta, you can stick the pasta boxes into your freezer for 3-4 days and this should kill any live insects that were in there.
In our lab colonies, after placing adult males and females together, we separate which ones we believe to be females (Based on their larger size) and place them in a container with a dark felt material. The eggs being laid show up well on the dark fabric.
I love your channel! Can you make more of these 😂🙏🏼 putting a request in for life cycle of a flea, mosquito, stink bugs, cockroach, and any other pest. 🐜
These lil guys were driving me crazy. I finally found the source.The larvae chewed lil holes in some oatmeal packets in my pantry.They fly. They're attracted to light / window seals. Glue boards won't help unless you find the source. Good luck!
How do you know when you buy rice or flour that there are no bugs in it. I want to dry can rice and flour, but worry about bugs being in the rice and flour. Can they develop on my Mason jars?
When purchasing dried food goods at the store, always check to see that the manufacturing date is not over 1 year and that the package looks clean and well sealed. For flour packaged in paper containers, check beneath the paper flaps for signs of insect activity. Once you get the items home, you can stick them in the freezer for 3-4 days to make sure that nothing in the packager is alive. Clean flour, rice and other dried food goods placed into sealed mason jars will remain pest free if the jars are sealed properly.
I put everything i buy to store long term in freezer for about 10 days then let it come to room temperature before storing
How long do adults live?
Great question @thechatterbox1293! The short answer is that warehouse beetles live for less than 1 month in the adult stage. Looking closer at the details, females generally live longer than males (8-23 days for females and 10-16 days for males), unmated adults live longer than mated adults and both males and females live longer in lower temperatures. Information source: Rai, P., 2014. Effect of elevated temperatures on Trogerma variabile Ballion life stages (Doctoral dissertation, Kansas State University).
I found some of these nasty critters in a copple boxes of pasta and Im not sure how to get rid of them.
You can either bag up the pasta and discard it into an outside trash receptacle or if you don't mind cleaning out the dead insects in the pasta, you can stick the pasta boxes into your freezer for 3-4 days and this should kill any live insects that were in there.
I would like more information about eggs and how to collect or isolate them. Thank you very much
In our lab colonies, after placing adult males and females together, we separate which ones we believe to be females (Based on their larger size) and place them in a container with a dark felt material. The eggs being laid show up well on the dark fabric.
Thank you for your research and contribution to science
Glad it was helpful!
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