PESTS IN FOOD IN THE HOUSEHOLD.
The red flour
beetle known
triboliun casteneum, it is considered a pest of stored products in
storage, flour, chocolate, pet food, snuff, etc. The cycle of beetles
red, egg, larva and adult, can last for 7 weeks and living around 1 year.
These beetles are reptadotes being attracted by the light. There are
others of its kind with common characteristics in food and cycles, as
the teeth but without being attracted by the light. The beetle snuff and
drugstore beetle are occasional pests, but prefer dried herbs and plants
species.
The traps of fodder are placed in the places where we store food, as
stores, kitchens, pantries, etc.
The
meal moth is a very common household pest.
Their diet is often dried fruit, flour, cocoa, maize flour, powdered
milk, food for pets. You can hear in his adult status by the gray of the
wings, measuring 1.3 cm. In their larval cycle is a pink caterpillar
that moves through contaminated food reptando for shelter into adulthood.
The caterpillars feed on the surfaces of the product infested and
produce silk thread, as a spider's web, in the meal. Their life cycle is
about month.
The food of
wheat, rice and maize are most attacked by these plagues.
The weevil rice
weevil of cereal or wheat and maize weevil are regarding meal,
the most harmful one of the most destructive pests and harmful grain in
the world. It reproduced more easily in warm weather, being all very
good and some flying insects reptadotes therefore can infect the grain
in storage and in the countryside. Some of the cereal as the weevil can
winter. Females arrive to put about 300 eggs in her lifetime of 8 to 9
months. The cycle from egg to larva are completed in 30 days. When grain
is perceived attack by a hole above the uneven skin.
If we use hermetic containers in pantries, we
will manage to elude to the food plagues.
These pests are very resistant to many kinds of insecticides, it is
important to fully understand why their morphologies and features, being
helpful for extermination. While adults are signs of an infestation,
just kill them is not the solution, the important thing will destroy
infected products where pests, resorting to extreme cleaning and the use
of sealed containers and sealed to prevent potential problems with these
post insects. Often the initial origin is used in some boxes or bags of
products, which have been saved by neglect in the closets. Infection is
producing anger when adults seeking food.
There are different types of weevils and moths
that it is important to recognize.
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