They can enter through windows or small cracks in the home and seek out open food containers.
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What Is a Weevil?
Weevils are a throw in of beetle with an elongated snout.
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Other types are called bean, pea, and seed weevils.
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Types of Weevils and How to Identify Them
Weevils are 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch long.
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Their long snouts most easily distinguish them.
These weevils sometimes fly more than half a mile daily, searching for locations for feeding and mating.
Once inside, a population can grow and expand to food items stored nearby if the pests are uncontrolled.
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But unlike beetles that live and feed on foods, weevils live and feed inside the food item.
Freezing kills weevils, including eggs and larvae.
These methods should ward off weevils from making homes in your dried goods and pantry.
If weevils are left unattended in food or your home, they will continue to populate.
Weevils do not bite and will only chew food items not people.
Weevils: What to Know.
Weevils on Stored Grain.
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Pantry Pests: Insects Found In Stored Food.University of Minnesota Extension.
Evidence of Contact Pheromone Use In Mating Behavior of the Raspberry Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).
I found bugs in my cereal, pasta or cake mix.
What do i do?Rutgers Cooperative Extension.
Small, biting, black beetle-like bug.
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
