Stored Food Pests
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What are Stored Food Pests?
Stored product pests, often known as pantry pests, are minute bugs that live inside packaging and infest food. According to pest management professionals, this term is used to designate numerous species of weevils, moths, beetles, and mealworms. Infestation can occur during harvest, shipping, or after the food reaches your house or place of work.
Type of Stored Food Pests
Most of these species have a short life cycle of 4-6 weeks and are universal in their taste.
Risks Associated with Stored Food Pests
Food Contamination
Weevils are attracted to flour deposits eggs into food or into crevices in food packages eggs into food or into crevices in food packages
Breed Quickly
Generally, a female can lay up to 250 eggs at one time, and the eggs take up to three days to hatch.
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What QPCS does
QPCS provides specialized treatment aimed to manage and prevent pests from infiltrating your stored food products. Our use of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies focuses on locating and controlling stored food pests at their source. Pest control products are selected and administered in a way that minimizes dangers to human health, pets, and the environment through IPM.