Worms in the kitchen

Check whether there are worms

Not everything that looks like a worm is a worm. Knowing what that worm-like animal is in the kitchen can be important if you want to fight the supposed worms:

• Worms are adult creatures that belong to a wide variety of animal species. The earthworm is a ringworm and lives on dead organic material, the tapeworm a parasite that lives in the intestines of humans and animals. You see there are a lot of worms and it would be rather unusual for you to have large numbers of worms in your kitchen.
• Of course, if you eviscerate animals in the kitchen, parasitic worms can get into the kitchen, but they die quickly. The worm eggs, which you cannot see, are definitely dangerous, which is why you should work surfaces and after such work devices should clean with plenty of hot water.
• Individual worms that you bring in with garden plants can be picked up with paper and simply brought back into the garden, no problem either.
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• If you have flocks of worms in the kitchen, they are probably larvae, that is, between stages of other animals. These worms are usually quite thick and short. Usually these are the descendants of Moths, mostly flour moths. So you not only have to fight the "worms", but also the moths.


What can you do about maggots in the pantry?

Maggots. White little worms that frolic about in food and from it ...

• Also the Maggots from To fly resemble small white worms, these are mostly found on meat. You will find these maggots less in our part of the world, as meat is usually kept in the refrigerator.
• The mealworm maggots, also known as mealworms, are approx. 4 cm long when fully grown and yellowish brown.

Help with maggots in the kitchen

1. The first measure in the mass detention of these "worms" should be the vacuum cleaner be. Soak up everything you can find.
2. In the next step you have to look for the origin. Thoroughly tidy all cupboards and storage shelves. Also look into packages that appear to be undamaged. Watch out for crumbs and webs in the packages. The maggots can get into the packs through tiny cracks and feed themselves there undisturbed.
3. Throw away any food that is infected and wrap all other food in tightly fitting jars or metal cans. If you should have overlooked a population of the "worms", they are at least once in an escape-proof place and can be safely disposed of when you discover them.
4. To wash Clean all cupboards with vinegar water and lay out pheromone glue traps generously. This is how you catch the parents of the "worms" and prevent them from producing new ones.
5. If you are not sure whether it is the offspring of the clothes moth, you will have to clean carpets and wardrobes in a similar manner. Here, too, pheromone traps are good, so you can also be sure of what kind of maggots live in the kitchen. If moths stick to the clothes moth traps, you can be sure that you have clothes moths too, because the other moths will not go to these traps.

Overall, the worm in the kitchen is usually over quickly if you take the described approach against this approach.