The summer comes and with it brings warm and sweltering weather. Perfect and beautiful weather for going out and doing things. However, Its also great weather for bugs to breed and go about their business. This is also their perfect opportunity to take over your pantry. Moths are the subject of this blog. in particular the ones that live in grains.
When you buy a package of whole grain rice you are hoping to enjoy it at some time. Most people do not eat all the rice at once. Try as they may rice harvesters are not able to control the moths that come and lay their eggs on the rice. So it will behoove you to find a way to prevent it. The best way is to put your grains in the refrigerator to prevent optimum warm dry dark conditions for egg hatching. But check the bag before you do because once in a while when its hot like this the grains develop on the way to the store cause they do not properly keep them cool. If they come with larva bring it back to the store.
Now if you do end up with larva and its not overly infested and cannot afford to purchase more rice you can do something about it if your willing. Take a large plate solid in color and shallow. Pour out a single rice layer thick on the plate. Swirl the rice about and then look for moving rice. Use a spoon to scoop it up and keep doing this until all the wiggly rice is gone. You can toss them into a water glass they drown in water. You then put the larva free rice in a fresh baggy. Keep doing this until you have finished going through all the rice. Then you can leave the bag for an hour or so to see if any more larva show up by climbing the bag. Then you preheat your oven for like 450 degrees then you put all the rice on a cookie sheet and then bake it for 5-10 min. You will have very toasted rice but any larva that were left will be dried and dead. Then you put them in a baggie and then the bag goes into the fridge.
I hope this helps and I feel like someone has to talk about these gross subjects cause we all have then happen.
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