Which Foods Are Vulnerable To Pests Infestation

Although unpackaged foods are easily vulnerable to insects. But these tiny insect pests can also nest in packages and processed food products. How? So be careful when buying packaged cereals, nuts, meat products, etc. Some pests can also nest in other nature brought products such as wool, cotton, and leather. So, let’s discuss those food items which are highly attractive to insect pests.

Whole Grain – Small, tiny insects infest in stored whole grains like wheat and barley. Though these grains have tough outer skins, the insects don’t find it tricky to penetrate into it. The pests are usually the grain size and color, so it becomes very tough to detect them.

General Feeders – These insect pests can invade on particularly anything in your store. From chocolate to spices, and even cigarette tobacco also, these insects don’t hesitate to breed. Cereals, seeds, nuts, flour, and beans are also prone to attack. The common pests are cigarette beetle, tobacco moth, grain beetles, and the drugstore beetle.

Broken grain and flour – These attract a wide range of insects and mites. These also infest dried foods and pasta. Our Indian food industry pest control experts have identified the following as the major insect invaders. Spider beetles, grain beetle, flour beetles, Mediterranean flour moth, Indian meal moth, broad-nosed weevil, and yellow meal worm are the different types of invaders who are found vulnerable to broken grain and flour.

Meat and Cheese – These high protein food products are attacked by insects like larder beetle black larder beetle, and hide beetle. Cheese is prone to attack by the cheese mite, which also likes to spread on grains and flour. Red-legged ham beetle like to eat dead birds, rodents and other pests, and also found in grain warehouses, and food processing industry. Though these insects serve the useful purpose of scavenging on a dead animal, they also breed in carpets, nests and leather products.

Dried Fruits and Nuts – Dry fruits and nuts are rich in sugar. So, there is quite an insect and germ resistant. But as time passes by, these items become vulnerable to mold, which eventually breaks down the sugars and attracts insects like almond moth, dry fruits moth, dried fruits beetle, and stored nut moth. The dried fruits moth prefers to breed in raisins, figs, dates, fermented foods, and sultanas. Moldy food products like seeds, nuts, and ham that are highly rich in fats invite the mold mite.

The above pest details are laid out according to the Indian food industry that ensures your warehouses, factory, retail property, stores, and plants in and around Bangalore will remain safe and pest-free. A professional pest control service in Bangalore will ensure that you have the proper expertise, advice, and on-time services of trained insect controllers.