Flour Bugs?

[MichelleC]

Since I've startes using gluten-free flours, I've got little moths in my cabinets! I cleaned them out and they still return!!

Anyone else experience this?

M

[lovegrov]

We've been fighting those little moths off and on for two years. You need to clear out and closely examine EVERYTHING in any cabinet. Look not just for moths but their little eggs and also little fine spiderweb type things. Throw out anything that has any of that in it. They can even be in unopened plasitc bag containers. We've found them in crackers (a real favorite) cereal, flours, cornmeal, and even nuts.

richard

[tarnalberry]

Interesting. I have not experienced that, nor any bugs in the flours, but I keep the flours in plastic bags, so even if larvae hatched, I don't think I'd find the moths themselves... (On the other hand, we get fruit flies off an on... thanks to the fact that fruit ripens out in the open air very quickly. ;-))

[MichelleC]

Thank you!

I did a major cleaning and I think the culprit was a bag of coarse ground cornmeal.

So, I hope this helps me. It's icky!!

M

[debmidge]

Thanks for this info. I thought that those weevils were only found in wheat flour. Since I have no wheat flour any longer I thought I was forever rid of those pests. I heard that if you place a fresh leaf of basil on the shelf, it keeps them away. That's a natural remedy. I don't know if it works or not....

[plantime]

My grandma told me that the more nutritious your flour is, the more the weevils like it. They don't care if it's wheat, corn, rice, or whatever.