It's Time For Holiday Baking, Do You Know How To Avoid Pantry Pests?

Older | Newer

Tweet

Keep your kitchens pest free this holiday season with helpful tips from Schendel

For homeowners in Kansas City and throughout the Midwest, the holiday to-do list can seem overwhelming, but with Christmas just a few short days away, as you stop and take a minute to review what is left to be done, you are feeling pretty good about this year’s progress. Shopping, done, wrapping, done, cleaning, done. The only real pressing chore left is holiday baking. This, of course, is the yummiest chore of all, but before you venture off into the depths of your cupboards and pantries in search of all of your long, lost baking supplies, Schendel Pest Services, a longtime Kansas pest control company, would like to offer some tips on how to keep the pesky, little critters known as pantry pests out of your holiday cookies, cakes and candies.

For all of you lucky ones out there, who may have never come across an insect or two in your flour, cake mixes, dry cereal, powdered milk or other stored food products, pantry pests, also known as stored product pests are a group of insects that love the foods commonly found in our pantries and cupboards. Indian meal moths are probably the most common invader, but others include the cigarette beetle, drugstore beetle, saw-toothed grain beetle and flour beetle, just to name a few. So to keep your kitchen free of these uninvited holiday crashers, here’s what we suggest:

• Keep food stored in hard plastic or glass containers with tightly fitting lids
• If possible, any item that is going to be stored for an extended period of time, should be kept in the fridge or freezer
• Purchase baking items in small quantities that can be used up quickly, although more economical, avoid buying in bulk; if items become infested and have to be thrown away, you will end up losing money in the long run
• Keep countertops, floors and other surfaces clean and free of crumbs; clean spills immediately, making sure to get under appliances if necessary
• Check expiration dates on food packaging
• Do not mix older stored products with new ones, which can cause the infestation to spread
• Inspect packages in the grocery store for damage prior to purchasing; damaged packages are easily accessed by pests in the grocery store

If after you have cleaned and washed down floors and counters, thrown out old stored food and packaged everything up in new plastic containers, you are still finding bugs in your cupboards, Schendel Pest Services is always ready to help! Our home pest control services, available in Kansas City, Topeka and throughout Kansas and the Midwest are the ideal solution for keeping your holidays, as well as the rest of the year pest free. Contact our experienced Kansas City exterminators for more information on pantry pests in your kitchen and Happy Holidays from Schendel Pest Services!

Tags: Pantry Pests  |  Pest Prevention Tips  |  Kansas City pest control  |  pest control Kansas City  |  insects in the kitchen  |  indian meal moth

Name *
Email *
Comments