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I discovered many moth like flies in my cupboard. Later I went to cook rice and we had worms in all our rice packages. They were not even opened yet. I washed all the shelves, sprayed them with insecticide and threw away all the rice. I still have more 'flies' showing up in the house and in the cupboard. What can I do?

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  1. Answer If the “worms” are limited to your kitchen and are crawling up walls and along ceilings, it’s a good bet that they are Indianmeal moth larvae. The other white worms (in that size range) that can be found in kitchens are fly maggots, but those do not have legs. Maggots wiggle along; they can’t crawl.
  2. Typical worms such as earthworms rarely infest houses because they live exclusively in soil. Millipedes, however, can be drawn to the moisture, dark spaces and organic matter that can hide under floors and in walls. Often, millipedes and other pests enter the home through doorways or cracks in walls and foundations.
  3. These disgusting little black (not really) worms are tough to beat. They are the offspring of the tiny Drain Fly which you occassionally see on the shower wa.
  4. These disgusting little black (not really) worms are tough to beat. They are the offspring of the tiny Drain Fly which you occassionally see on the shower wa.

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June 10, 20110 found this helpful

Ugh, I had this problem one year. I don't know what they were but they were disgusting! Little moths that managed to lay their eggs in our food cupboard. The only thing I found that helped was vigilance. I cleaned everything regularly and made sure that all food was kept in well-sealed containers. Opened jars like peanut butter I kept in the fridge as they'd even managed to get underneath the rims. If the adult moths can't find food they should move on.

June 11, 20110 found this helpful

Sorry Ladies, but you probably brought home the disgusting little moths and worms in your rice, grits, flour, cornmeal, dried beans and other foods like these. If not this last trip, then the ones before and the little bugs just migrated from one to the other of your staple items in your own pantry.


Those little bugs' eggs were laid on the vegetables, grains etc before they were ever picked from the fields and gardens most likely. The little eggs just waited patiently until the time was better for them to hatch out, and voila, they already had a good supply of food waiting right there for them. The ate what food they had until they were ready to develop from one stage to the little moth stage and now, they're just busy flying around, mating and looking for places to lay a new crop of eggs.

If you will place all those types of foods in a securely closed plastic bag and freeze them (including flour and cornmeal) and leave them in there for about 72 hours before taking them out, you'll kill the eggs, and they'll never turn into the little bugs and worms or moths. Do this as soon as you get home from the grocery store.


I also keep dried bay leaves in every container, including plastic bags that I enclose every bag of new flour, corn meal, beans etc into before placing them on a cupboard shelf. Dried bay leaves are scattered all through my cabinets and cupboards as well, and anywhere else you store dried foods. I don't know why, but they help too. A few large bay leaves go into canisters that hold these foods as well. Right on top where they're easily removed before measuring out the amount you need for a recipe. Don't forget to replace the bay leaves before closing the canister.

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When you run across a bag of pasta for instance that you find little bug in, be sure to tell your grocery man as most likely, the entire shelf of dried foods have been infected, or soon will be. Instead of its being your fault, it's more likely to be the fault of the stock boys at the grocery stores not checking the foods, shelves, and rotating the stock properly. Save every receipt, and return those foods to the grocery store where you bought them, but don't get a replacement there. Get a refund and buy it at a different store or you'll likely just buy some more little bugs.


Hope this helps.

Pookarina

June 11, 20110 found this helpful

We went through this maybe 20 years ago when I was still living with my parents. Mom and I cleaned out everything, went to buy new staples (flour, sugar, etc.) and were very careful when refilling her containers. We saw a moth in the flour that we just purchased from the store as we were pouring it out of the bag. She stopped shopping at that store.

Several years back I was at their house fixing dinner. I opened a brand new bag of Riceland brown rice. When I poured it into the water, I could see little critters in it (tiny brown hard-bodied bugs). We tossed it and ate something else. Some time later, the same thing happened with another brand new bag of Riceland brown rice. I've always used a different brand of brown rice, but Mom has stopped purchasing Riceland brown rice. Mom keeps an immaculate house. These products came from the store with the critters in them. And since the rice was in sealed bags, I believe they came from Riceland with the bugs in them.


I think it's just one of those things that happens. Keep everything in sealed containers, and keep your eyes opened when using those dry products.

June 11, 20110 found this helpful

Once you clean out anything that you can tell is infested, you can buy cardboard traps (the ones I have seen have the words 'Pantry Pest' prominently on the label), which you can place inconspicuously in your pantry to draw in any stragglers. I get these periodically, it's so annoying. I have never had them get into anything besides grain products.

June 13, 20110 found this helpful

Pantry moths & weevils are nasty things that can be hard to get rid of, because they spread throughout your cabinets/pantry & they lay eggs in the cracks between the shelves. Pookarina has the best advice, this is also what I do. everything that comes in the house that has grain in it goes into a plastic ziplock bag.


Then I put the pasta I have into a plastic shoebox with a tight lid. Every grain(rice,oatmeal,etc) & flour product (flour,corn meal,pancake mix,etc) all go into the plastic bags & then the freezer. Actually, I keep my flour & cornmeal in the freezer all the time to keep it from going stale. If I have room, I keep the rice in there too.
June 13, 20110 found this helpful

In Japan people put dried red peppers (togarashi) in dry rice to keep bugs out. I don't know that it would help if the bugs are already there, though.

June 14, 20110 found this helpful

My mother-in-law use to work for an extension service of a University. She taught me to place anything I purchase, that is made of grains, in my freezer for at least two weeks. This kills the weevil eggs so they cannot hatch. All grains will have weevil eggs. It is a fact of life. So, if you won't be consuming the grains in a timely manner, be sure to freeze it. Also, the bay leaf trick really works. Just put a few bay leaves on the shelves of your pantry. Good luck!

February 22, 20170 found this helpful

I found that putting peppermint gum on every Shelf works great

August 4, 20170 found this helpful

Everyone in Asia knows, you cannot store rice for long (over 1-2 months) at room temperature. The rice, ALL RICE has larvae in it. It's a symbiotic relationship. Unlike wheat (bread, pasta) which also cannot be stored at room temperature for long either, 1-2 months is max.

At room Temperature the larvae are in the rice, and will hatch, and become maggots, then they will escape the bag somehow and crawl around as maggots outside and become a cocoon and hatch into mini-moths and die.

The rice is still edible. When you wash it, it's real easy, ALL THE BUGS WILL FLOAT UP, just rinse like 3 times.
Once you cook the rice, it will kill all insects and what ever, will become protein.
You do not need to waste or throw away good rice because of those. You just cannot help it. It will always happen to rice. If you open a bag with no maggots or bugs that means the bag is fresh and a new crop. Otherwise a bag with maggots will mean it's been on the shelf over 1-2 month.

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It cannot be helped, all rice has that. All Rice.

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