What can you do about maggots in the pantry?

What you need:

• vinegar
• water
• Pheromone traps
• Bug spray
• trash bags
• vacuum cleaner
• hairdryer

Maggots are maggots - the mistake

• You have a cat? In the best case scenario, you have already found the culprit for the maggot infestation. Outdoor walkers keep bringing their people presents with them, which tend to vegetate unnoticed under a shelf.
• The situation is to be assessed similarly if you keep your trash can in the pantry. Fly maggots infest even leftover meat that has also been packed in plastic bags. As soon as meat is no longer available, the maggots begin their migration through your pantry. This case works like a mouse brought home by your cat, but with a lot of odor development
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  To fly so that you can quickly locate the find.
• If you don't own a cat or have your trash can in the pantry, solving the maggot problem is not that simple. In this case, the white worms will be the larvae of the food moth.
• Take a look at the walls of your pantry and see if you can see moths. The moths are elongated and grayish-brown in color.

You can do that against maggots

First of all, let me tell you that the Maggots in normal households it does not come from a lack of cleanliness. Food moths lay their eggs in grains and foods containing cereals. They also do before chocolate, rice or bag soups Moths no hold. It is quite possible that the last time you went shopping at the supermarket, you brought a maggot-filled feeding place into your house. To actively do something against the maggots, you need to use vinegar cleaner, garbage bags, a vacuum cleaner and arm bug spray.

1. First, empty your pantry. A major disadvantage of food moth maggots is that they get in almost anywhere. Even products that are still closed, such as bag soups or pasta packs, can be infected.
2. Dispose The products for which you can detect the infestation with the naked eye. The maggots pupate before they hatch. In most cases, contaminated food appears to be covered in thin cobwebs.
3. The next step is to kill the moths. Use the bug spray as indicated on the spray can.
4. Vacuum the entire pantry very thoroughly. Pay particular attention to gaps between rule boards, cabinet boards and doors. Food moths are particularly resourceful in their nesting areas, so looking behind the cabinets and shelves is a good idea.
5. To wash Now thoroughly clean the pantry with hot vinegar water. Again, you should pay particular attention to cracks and crevices.
6. The food moth maggots do not like essential oils. It helps if you put small sachets with lavender oil in the cupboards.
7. As long as there are living specimens of the food moth in your apartment or house, your pantry can be reoccupied by maggots. You are advised to set up a pheromone trap in the pantry and in adjacent rooms. The trap exudes an attractant that attracts the female moths. Due to an adhesive coating, the moths stick to the trap and cannot lay their eggs.

Preventing maggot infestation

You have now successfully removed the maggots' nests and webs. Understandably, you don't want to relive this experience anytime soon. If possible, pay attention to a few points so that you don't have to do something about maggots again soon:

• When buying products, pay attention not only to the best before date, but also to the condition of the packaging. Pasta boxes or the boxes of cornflakes or mueslis may have small cobwebs at the glue points if they are infected.
• Whenever possible, buy products in clear packaging. This is the easiest way to identify the infestation.
• Do not leave farinaceous products in the paper or cardboard packaging. Fill the products into jars or tightly sealable cans. Packet soups can be stored safely if you put the packets in plastic boxes. If the food is infested with maggots, the infestation does not spread to other foods, but remains in the can.
• Wipe your cupboards with vinegar water every now and then. When cleaning the pantry, you can also use a hair dryer to edit individual crevices. The maggots do not like heat, so they die at blow dryer temperatures.
• Keep setting up pheromone traps in between. Although these cost a few euros, they are much cheaper than disposing of contaminated food.
• As a natural recipe against food moths parasitic wasps can be used. These eat the maggots so that the maggot infestation is stopped. The parasitic wasps themselves die as soon as there are no more maggots.