We had an infestation of these years ago and I would regularly not notice them in my noodles until I was finished cooking them, more times than I can count I ate them anyway and just thought "extra protein"
I'm going to try this. I took everything out of my cupboards, sealed the cracks and poured diatomaceous earth on all the shelves and somehow they just kept showing up for two weeks. When it looked like they were gone, I put all the canned stuff back in and bought new boxed foods, then they started showing up again. Although almost every one I found was dead, and I found them dead in other places of the house. Even though none of them are alive, I still just keep finding them and it's annoying.
As long as they are dead it's ok. Probably, they have been emerging from the food source. Let them continue to emerge and die. If you see live ones, make your lure and prevention measure as before.
While I was away for just a few months, my roommate failed to prevent a grain beetle infestation. I just had to spend 2 hours going over each of my dry products and cleaning every single cabinet surface including bottom boards. Never again.
1:00 - Looks like Ive got some "lesser grain borers" in my bag of wheat. They are black colored. After a few weeks of eating the wheat I thought,......"hmmmmm, I dont recall there being so much powder in this bag when I first opened it"😂. Then, when I poured a bunch of wheat in a large bowl and filled it with water the beetles floated to the top. Good to know🙂 Update: You dont need pesticides! Soaking the wheat in hot water seemed to kill all the adult beetles. After hydrating the wheat, some was boiled in water for eating, some was placed in glass jars and pressure cooked at 15psi for 90min to remain stored in the pantry for later. The remainder of dry wheat berries (full of adult beetles) was placed in the freezer for 7 days. That seemed to kill them all. In the future when purchasing 50lb bags of wheat for kitchen use I'll make sure to pressure can it right away or store in the freezer for at least a week to kill the babies.
My infestation wasn't that bad & I'm still trying to avoid putting all of these chemicals in my house. I threw out so much food, washed out my cupboards and put everything in airtight containers. I hope they'll just die off without access to the grains??
@@JetLi2618 Sometimes I see one or two in the kitchen when the garbage is getting a bit full but I find that putting LITERALLY every single piece of food in my cupboard in an airtight container helped a lot. They will literally eat through pasta bags. So far, its fine, they don't bother! Make sure to invest in good containers though
They may not be poisonous, but they are pests that contaminate our foods. The chemicals that we use are safe to be used around food as long as label instructions are followed. If you have any additional questions, let us know.
@@solutionspestandlawn I guess my point is the definition of contamination. From what I understand these beetles don't spread disease, they don't produce toxins. If you just eat the food or put it in the freezer . Yes your way gets rid of bugs, but at the expense of throwing out tons of good food, and then putting poison everywhere that will likely be tracked into the food supply. I say get a large cooler, that seals tight. Put your grains in it. Done. cost about the same as poison and so much better. I watch all your videos and I learn a lot but on this one I just disagree. Again nothing against poison but to spread it over your food storage are that will get tracked into your food is just a mistake. I know in small quantities is mostly harmless but still.
They’re more than an eye sore. They damage food and they will multiply very fast in the summer. Until recently I had such a bad infestation I found them EVEEYWHERE. Crawling all over my pantry and kitchen counter. Inside all of my food packages. That’s no way to live. It was disgusting.
@@MichaelMantionYou wouldn't be saying that if I sent you the video of what my protein powder looked like earlier this week when I opened it and found hundreds of adult grain beetles feasting on the flax seeds in the powder. Believe me, you wouldn't have continued to grab a scoop and make yourself a shake. I had to throw out the entire bag (almost $20 worth of vegan protein). They also got into my completely vacuumed sealed bag of expensive black jasmine rice that I also had to dump out as they ate through basically every single grain in the bag. (also almost $20 worth of rice) Don't get me started on how many of my spices and dried chilies from Mexico they got into. They have caused me hundreds of dollars worth of food already so yes, completely getting rid of everything and decontaminating is important to further prevent food loss / waste.
If I just smoosh all the ones I find and then vacuum the dirt/crumbs and the bugs up and clean out my drawer will that be ok?
We had an infestation of these years ago and I would regularly not notice them in my noodles until I was finished cooking them, more times than I can count I ate them anyway and just thought "extra protein"
Lol. That's some fine protein you had there. 😂
I'm going to try this. I took everything out of my cupboards, sealed the cracks and poured diatomaceous earth on all the shelves and somehow they just kept showing up for two weeks. When it looked like they were gone, I put all the canned stuff back in and bought new boxed foods, then they started showing up again. Although almost every one I found was dead, and I found them dead in other places of the house. Even though none of them are alive, I still just keep finding them and it's annoying.
As long as they are dead it's ok. Probably, they have been emerging from the food source. Let them continue to emerge and die. If you see live ones, make your lure and prevention measure as before.
Its almost summer for me and I take care birds this is very helpful!
While I was away for just a few months, my roommate failed to prevent a grain beetle infestation. I just had to spend 2 hours going over each of my dry products and cleaning every single cabinet surface including bottom boards. Never again.
1:00 - Looks like Ive got some "lesser grain borers" in my bag of wheat. They are black colored. After a few weeks of eating the wheat I thought,......"hmmmmm, I dont recall there being so much powder in this bag when I first opened it"😂. Then, when I poured a bunch of wheat in a large bowl and filled it with water the beetles floated to the top. Good to know🙂
Update: You dont need pesticides! Soaking the wheat in hot water seemed to kill all the adult beetles. After hydrating the wheat, some was boiled in water for eating, some was placed in glass jars and pressure cooked at 15psi for 90min to remain stored in the pantry for later. The remainder of dry wheat berries (full of adult beetles) was placed in the freezer for 7 days. That seemed to kill them all.
In the future when purchasing 50lb bags of wheat for kitchen use I'll make sure to pressure can it right away or store in the freezer for at least a week to kill the babies.
You would still be eating their poop though.
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Are they edible.
My infestation wasn't that bad & I'm still trying to avoid putting all of these chemicals in my house. I threw out so much food, washed out my cupboards and put everything in airtight containers. I hope they'll just die off without access to the grains??
How’d it turn out?
how did it turn out i tried that
@@JetLi2618 Sometimes I see one or two in the kitchen when the garbage is getting a bit full but I find that putting LITERALLY every single piece of food in my cupboard in an airtight container helped a lot. They will literally eat through pasta bags. So far, its fine, they don't bother! Make sure to invest in good containers though
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to be clear grain beetles aren't posionous and actually provide some protein. BUUUUUT put posion where we store the food to prevent an eye sore....
They may not be poisonous, but they are pests that contaminate our foods. The chemicals that we use are safe to be used around food as long as label instructions are followed. If you have any additional questions, let us know.
@@solutionspestandlawn I guess my point is the definition of contamination. From what I understand these beetles don't spread disease, they don't produce toxins. If you just eat the food or put it in the freezer . Yes your way gets rid of bugs, but at the expense of throwing out tons of good food, and then putting poison everywhere that will likely be tracked into the food supply. I say get a large cooler, that seals tight. Put your grains in it. Done. cost about the same as poison and so much better. I watch all your videos and I learn a lot but on this one I just disagree. Again nothing against poison but to spread it over your food storage are that will get tracked into your food is just a mistake. I know in small quantities is mostly harmless but still.
They’re more than an eye sore. They damage food and they will multiply very fast in the summer. Until recently I had such a bad infestation I found them EVEEYWHERE. Crawling all over my pantry and kitchen counter. Inside all of my food packages. That’s no way to live. It was disgusting.
@@MichaelMantionYou wouldn't be saying that if I sent you the video of what my protein powder looked like earlier this week when I opened it and found hundreds of adult grain beetles feasting on the flax seeds in the powder. Believe me, you wouldn't have continued to grab a scoop and make yourself a shake. I had to throw out the entire bag (almost $20 worth of vegan protein).
They also got into my completely vacuumed sealed bag of expensive black jasmine rice that I also had to dump out as they ate through basically every single grain in the bag. (also almost $20 worth of rice)
Don't get me started on how many of my spices and dried chilies from Mexico they got into.
They have caused me hundreds of dollars worth of food already so yes, completely getting rid of everything and decontaminating is important to further prevent food loss / waste.
@@funkndeep- went to look for your video but did not find it; is it on another site? sounds gross tho!