The Pantry Weevil: How to Keep Those Tiny Little Jerks Out of Your Food

There are certain things in life that nobody tells you about until you are standing in your kitchen staring at a bag of rice wondering why your pantry has suddenly become The Hunger Games for insects.

Weevils.

Tiny, determined little freeloaders.

And apparently, they can come home from the grocery store with you.

The good news is that there is a ridiculously easy way to prevent a full-scale pantry infestation.

When you bring home things like rice, pasta, noodles, flour, cereal, beans, oatmeal, or other dry goods that come in cardboard boxes or bags, empty them into airtight containers as soon as you get home.

Not tomorrow.

Not when you get around to reorganizing the pantry.

Not after the box has been sitting there for six months and you suddenly decide that today is the day you become one of those people with an organized pantry.

When you bring them home.

Because here’s the thing: sometimes the weevil isn’t something that magically appears because your kitchen is dirty. They can already be hiding in the package when you buy it. You don’t know they’re there because apparently weevils have chosen a life of espionage.

But if you put that entire box or bag into your pantry and there happens to be a tiny little passenger inside, congratulations! You have just given it access to the rest of your pantry.

And weevils are not particularly respectful of boundaries.

They’ll move from your rice to your pasta, from your pasta to your flour, and before you know it you’re standing in the middle of the kitchen throwing away perfectly good food while questioning every life decision that brought you to this moment.

But what if they’ve already moved in?

First: don’t panic.

Second: throw away the dry goods - eggs hide out in cardboard boxes, so everything will have to go.  Prevention is a less expensive alternative!!!

And third: call Alco Pest Control.

This is exactly the kind of situation where having a good pest-control company in your corner can save you a whole lot of aggravation. Alco Pest Control can treat the problem and help you get those tiny pantry invaders under control the first time, rather than you spending the next six weeks playing Whack-a-Weevil.

Because let’s be honest: if you’re seeing one, you have more.

You have relatives.

And apparently they all got invited to dinner.

Once the problem is treated, clean out the pantry, toss your dry goods, and start using airtight containers going forward.

The easiest prevention trick

When you buy rice, pasta, flour, cereal, noodles, beans, oatmeal, or other dry pantry staples:

Buy it.

Bring it home.

Transfer it.

Seal it.

Forget it.

That way, if something has hitchhiked home from the grocery store, you’ve contained the problem before it gets a chance to start a family reunion in your pantry.

And if you’re already seeing little bugs crawling around where they absolutely should NOT be?

That’s what Alco Pest Control is for.

Let the professionals deal with it while you get on with your life.

Because there are some battles I am perfectly happy to outsource.

Weevils are one of them.

And honestly, I have enough going on in my life.

I don’t need my pasta fighting back. 😂

Alco Pest Control — because your pantry should contain food, not wildlife.