In houses and apartments, several types of insects most often live, feeding on cereals, flour products, dried fruits, nuts or spices:

1. bread grinder;
2. red (Surinamese) mucoed;
3. flour beetle;
4. food moth;
5. weevil.

Bread grinders most often live in bakeries and bakeries; they are rarely found in houses, unless they were brought with some purchased products. They are brown bugs up to 3 mm in length. They can fly, often flying towards the light towards the windows. In addition to dry bread and crumbs, any grains, tea, dried plants, dry paper (books), and animal feed can be eaten.

The red (or Surinamese) flour eater is a fan of eating flour, grain or cereals. This pest lives and reproduces only when high humidity, well-dried grain and flour do not spoil. Externally, these are reddish-brown bugs about 2mm long. The beetle larva is small - no more than 0.8 mm; it is difficult to see it in the rump. The mucoed is very prolific. But in conditions ordinary apartment with good ventilation and normal air humidity, mucoeaters do not live long. They enter the house with poorly dried, low-quality raw materials.

The mealworm is a small red-brown insect 3-4 mm long. Likes to settle in different types flour, semolina and millet cereals, oatmeal. Less commonly colonizes stocks of rice, buckwheat and dried fruits. These beetles multiply quickly both in the croup and in kitchen furniture, dishes.

The Indian food moth is a small, inconspicuous butterfly, similar to an ordinary moth, up to 10 mm long. It is extremely prolific - in a couple of weeks it manages to lay about 500 eggs, from which caterpillar larvae emerge. They are the ones who devour cereal reserves. After a few weeks, the larvae turn into pupae, which turn into adults, ready to lay eggs again. The moth is the most difficult to detect and destroy, and it is also very tenacious.

It is not easy to destroy insects that have settled in cereals, but it is doable. To do this you need to take several steps:

1. Destroy visible beetles in cereals. It is best to throw away without regret those supplies in which insects were found. Eating them is unpleasant and unsafe. Even if you remove the beetles from the product, there will still be larvae, waste products - excrement, pieces of shell and dead insects. And the cereal itself is already pretty spoiled.
2. If there is still a need to save stocks in which bugs are found, you can resort to heat treatment– fry the cereal in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 55 – 70 degrees (insects die at 50 degrees and above). The second option is to keep it in the freezer for a couple of hours or on the balcony in winter (at temperatures below -15). Living individuals and larvae will die. After this, the flour can be sifted, and large grains can be filled with water so that the insects float up. But waste products will not go anywhere!
3. Once the contaminated supplies are destroyed, all that remains is to clean out the lockers. Wash all shelves, door hinges, and bushing holes with a disinfectant. Afterwards, wipe everything with a vinegar solution.
4. Thoroughly rinse the jars in which grain supplies were stored, after boiling or freezing. Then rinse them with vinegar solution and dry.
5. To destroy those insects that may have scattered during harvesting, you can use poison. Mix equal parts of ground cereal or flour, powdered sugar and boric acid. Place the mixture in the corners of the cabinets, in the most secluded places in the kitchen furniture.

After these activities, you can refill the jars with cereals and replenish stocks of flour, dried fruits, and nuts. But then you should carefully monitor so that the bugs do not appear again.

Prevention of insects in cereals

Bugs in flour and cereals appear in the house mainly from newly purchased products. Even factory-produced, hermetically packaged grains may initially contain insects or their larvae. This occurs due to violations in the production and storage of grains and inadequate quality control. Knowing this fact, you need to prevent kitchen contamination, starting with the purchase of food.

• When choosing cereal in a store, especially by weight, inspect the contents of the package if it is transparent. If there are suspicious inclusions there, put them back on the shelf. The same goes for nuts and dried fruits. For example, when buying shelled walnuts, you need to break a couple and look under the membrane. Insects may crawl out from there or traces of the beetles’ “meal” will be visible.
• If the bag of cereal is opaque, carefully inspect the cereal or flour at home, sift and sort. It is important to ensure that the product is pure.
• It is better not to buy dried fruits by weight in the markets. There is a 99 percent chance that there will be pests there.
• For prevention, even if there are no visible insects, you can fry or freeze the grains. Then the larvae, if any, will die.
• To store supplies, use glass or plastic jars with airtight lids that have rubber seals. Then the bugs preserved in the furniture will not get there.
• Before pouring the cereal into the jar, line the bottom with a piece of food foil or put a coin, a nail - something metal. It is not known for sure whether bugs are really afraid of metal, but it wouldn’t hurt.
• The smell of garlic and hot pepper will probably repel pests. An unpeeled whole clove of garlic or a chili pepper can be placed in a jar of cereal and placed in the corners of the cabinets.
• Dried fruits and nuts should be heat treated and then stored not on shelves, but in the refrigerator.
• It is believed that salt, lemon zest, whole cloves wrapped in cheesecloth and bay leaf repel bugs and prevent them from multiplying in flour.
• Periodically, you need to do a general cleaning of the cabinets and check the cereal to see if there are any insects there.

Once you get rid of bugs in flour and cereals, it is not a fact that you will no longer see them in the kitchen. Often on the shelves you come across low-quality products that are already infested with pests. But following preventative and hygiene measures on kitchen shelves reduces the risk of their reappearance to a minimum.

My friend has been struggling with a sensitive problem for a long time. There are always bugs in her cereal cupboard. In search of an answer to the question of how to get rid of bugs in cereals, we decided to try all known methods. As they say, in war all means are good.

Types of “unwanted new settlers”

You need to know the enemy by sight! The choice of battle tactics depends on the characteristics of the insect. To get rid of some bugs in cereals, it is enough to deprive them familiar conditions habitat, and they will perish. Others are able to survive a nuclear war.

Image	Type of beetle
	Bread grinder The insect is red in color, 3 mm in length. He prefers baked goods, but will not refuse tea, buckwheat or rice. Due to their ability to fly, bread borers are difficult to hatch.
	Flour bug Dark cinnamon pests are 4 mm in length. They settle in all types of flour, oatmeal and semolina. Flour bugs multiply very quickly, laying eggs disguised as white grains.
	food moth It looks like a butterfly, it reaches 1 cm in length. Thanks to its dark color and ability to fly, it is easy to camouflage and hide. It reproduces at a rapid pace, laying about 250 eggs per week. The hatched larvae spin a web that makes them easy to spot. Moths eat everything from flour to dried fruits.
	Red mukoed Red beetle 2 mm in length. Lives where it is warm and humid. It feeds on spoiled cereals and reproduces up to 7 times a year. Without food and suitable habitat, it dies.
	Weevil Black insects reach 5 mm in length. Distinctive feature- long proboscis. Absolutely unpretentious insects - they eat everything and settle everywhere. They can go without food for a long time.

Pest Control

Beetles settle only where they feel comfortable. Therefore, the first step in the war against pests is to deprive them favorable conditions habitat. Get rid of dirt and dampness in your home.

Some insects will be deterred by normal hygiene. Use special toxic substances against others.

Chemicals: 4 effective drugs

It is best to poison cockroaches. The same applies to beetles. Insects are the most unpretentious and hardy creatures on the planet. Accordingly, combating them requires a radical approach.

Remember that beetle repellents are poisons, so do not treat the cereal or flour itself with them.

Image	Preparation
	Remedy 1. “Anti-bug” The substance actively fights all types of beetles without causing harm to the treated surfaces. Price – about 300-350 rubles. Before use, read the instructions - the drug is toxic.
	Remedy 2. “Karbofos” The product is produced in various forms: liquid, tablets, powder, aerosol. It can not only remove bugs, but also prevent their further appearance. Karbofos costs about 150 rubles.
	Remedy 3. Chalk “Mashenka” It is enough to smear the corners with chalk kitchen cabinets, and you will repel pests for a long time. Manufacturers charge 20 to 25 rubles for chalk.
	Remedy 4. “Lovin Fire Protection” Do you want to know how to get rid of bugs in cereals in a short time? Try this drug. It kills both the insect and its future offspring. For high quality you will have to give away about 2000 rudders. Treat areas inaccessible to animals with the product - the poison has the same effect on all living beings.

Grandma's recipes:

When there are not too many “new residents” in the house or they periodically drop in to visit from neighboring apartment, they need to show that they will feel bad in your home. I will tell you a few folk remedies that will repel insects from your products.

If there are large numbers of insects in the cereal, throw it away completely along with the bag.

Image	Recommendations
	Recipe 1. Temperature shock. Send the sifted grains or flour overnight to freezer or heat in an oven at 110°C for 10 minutes.
	Recipe 2. Salt water Ordinary salt will help get rid of bugs in peas or dried beans: Dissolve 2 tablespoons of salt in a liter of water. Pour water over affected beans or peas. Wait for the bugs and larvae to float and fish them out. Drain the water and dry the product.
	Recipe 3. Vinegar A universal remedy with its pungent odor will repel insects once and for all: Mix a liter of water and a tablespoon of vinegar. Thoroughly wipe down all the shelves in the kitchen cabinet, cereal storage jars and dishes.
	Recipe 4. Pungent odor Insects cannot tolerate strong odors. Place citrus peels, garlic, leaves in the cabinets walnut, bay leaf, seasonings or nutmeg.
	Recipe 5. Lavender The aroma of this plant negatively affects nervous system insects Place dried bouquets or lavender oil on the shelves and the little brown bugs won't want to come back. Analogues of the product are twigs of wormwood and oils of cloves, basil, fir, chamomile or rosemary.
	Recipe 6. Borax balls The multifunctional product will be the best poison that you can prepare with your own hands. In addition to borax, you will need millet and powdered sugar - they will attract beetles: Grind the millet in a coffee grinder. Mix all the ingredients in equal proportions and roll them into balls. Place the balls in the barn. Before use, wash and disinfect the cabinet.
	Recipe 7. Borax powder To prepare the powder, dry yeast, sugar and borax are useful: Beetle poison can be prepared at home. Take some flour, sugar and boric acid: Mix the ingredients in equal parts. Sprinkle in insect habitats.

Prevention

Avoiding the appearance of “unpleasant tenants” is quite simple. If you don’t know what to do, follow these tips:

1. Keep your home clean.
2. Store cereal in an airtight container.
3. Ventilate the room.
4. Store nuts and dried fruits in the refrigerator.
5. Do not allow moisture to enter the cabinet.
6. Carry out regular audits to get rid of “delays”.
7. Store dry plants on shelves.

First of all, you need to understand that if you have food in your kitchen, then bugs can appear in any case, no matter how hard you try to maintain order.

Cereals receive bugs while still in the warehouse.

There may be several sources of infection:

Pay attention! Even one spotted bug is a reason to be wary and take treatment and prevention measures. Therefore, carefully monitor the condition of your kitchen and do not neglect processing cereals after purchasing them.

In addition, many bugs love animal food, so it is better to put it in the pantry or refrigerator.

Types of bugs

It is important to understand that depending on the type of new kitchen inhabitants you have, methods of dealing with them may vary significantly. And sometimes they are not needed at all: for example, small (less than one millimeter) white bugs that can occasionally be seen in the kitchen are ordinary tree bugs. They feed on dust from your furniture, are non-toxic and do not harm human health.

White bugs: not a very pleasant, but harmless neighborhood.

True, there is another side to this - they can serve as food for other bugs with more unpleasant behavior. Therefore, we recommend that you read the information below and try to determine who you are up against and what products you may have to throw away.

We define: Musty smell and holes cut into the grains.

The mealworm is much more dangerous for humans. A brown bug up to three millimeters in size has a mustache and powerful mandibles. You can find it in stocks of flour or potato starch, but there are also not too whimsical individuals that Any will do crumbly product.

Not only destroys food, but also harms health.

It is noteworthy that they do not strive to completely eat even their favorite flour - as soon as it begins to smell unpleasant, the entire colony migrates to the next container.

Their danger lies in the fact that the waste products of the flour beetle are dangerous to humans and can cause serious poisoning.

We define: Products collect in lumps and acquire a damp smell.

The peculiarity of the bread grinder is its incredible gluttony. The four-millimeter bug is ready to eat any food that can be found in your kitchen cabinets: flour and pasta, cereals, beans, coffee, tea, nuts, dried fruits and even tobacco.

A small bug can drain all your supplies.

There is no particular harm from it, but a few bugs can ruin a significant amount of stock.

We define: They usually don’t hide much, so they are immediately visible.

It should be noted that some people prefer to classify food moths as bugs in the kitchen. This is fundamentally incorrect: moths are a completely different species and need to be dealt with using other methods. Read more about how to get rid of food moth, we wrote in.

Are bugs in the kitchen dangerous?

It is difficult to unequivocally assess the harm from the presence of bugs in the kitchen for human health: if you do not eat them directly, they do not seem to be able to do much harm.

Eating such foods is not only unpleasant, but also dangerous.

On the other hand, the taste also leaves much to be desired: bugs give all products an unpleasant musty taste, as they eat away their core, leaving only the shell.

The bugs will have no chance of getting into the container.

So get yourself some beautiful ceramic, metal or glass containers. In them, food will be preserved much longer, and bugs will not be able to reach it. Unless, of course, you forget to close the lid.

The desire to stock up is a good thing. However, should they all be stored in the kitchen? For most cereals best place storage will be a refrigerator or even a freezer.

Bugs cannot tolerate low temperatures.

Low temperatures will not give the bugs the slightest chance to reproduce, and will not spoil the taste of the products.

Place the selected ingredient in fabric bags and place it on the shelves between containers with bulk products.

It is not at all necessary to pour it into food: we doubt that this will make rice or oatmeal tastier. But once a week, wiping the shelves with a weak vinegar solution won’t hurt: this way you will remove the eggs and larvae of bugs, preventing them from multiplying.

Vinegar will remove bugs, larvae, and eggs.

Important! Be sure to wipe the shelves dry after treatment if you don’t want to enjoy the aroma of vinegar for a couple more days.

Scent bomb to fight bugs.

Step 1: Where there might be bugs in the kitchen

If your kitchen is already infested, the first step is to identify the source of infestation. To do this, you will have to review all products.

Radical methods will not be required if you listen to our advice.

Consider the following nuances:

After inspection, you may or may not find an obvious source of infection. A radical way is to throw away all food supplies, clean out the kitchen and buy new ones. However, not everyone will like this approach: products are expensive, so throwing away absolutely everything is quite wasteful.

Pay attention! You still have to get rid of obviously contaminated cereals and groceries, so throw them away without sparing.

If any product is in doubt, heat treat it. You have two options.

If you bake cereal in the oven, the bugs are guaranteed to die.

The first is the most gentle on the taste of the product. Just put the cereal in the freezer for a day and set it to the minimum temperature. This will be enough for the bugs, larvae and eggs to die. Then carefully sort the grains and sift the flour through a fine sieve.

The second will take less time and is considered more effective: preheat the oven and pour the cereal onto a baking sheet. At a temperature of 50-60 degrees, keep it there for one hour.

However, reviews note that this method of fighting bugs has its drawbacks - the taste of the cereal will change slightly, and it will take longer to prepare. But you are guaranteed to get crumbly porridge.

Be sure to sift the grains upon completion of cleaning work.

And yet, if you are not sure whether your products are clean, it is better to throw them away: it is much safer for your health to spend a couple of thousand rubles on restocking supplies than to later treat toxicological poisoning from frozen or baked remains of bugs.

Almost every housewife has encountered such a problem as the appearance of domestic bugs in the kitchen. Of course, it’s unpleasant, but this does not mean that you are a bad housewife.

Most often, such bugs appear in those kitchen cabinets in which you store food. Unfortunately, there are quite a few varieties of bugs that can ruin our lives and food.

We will look at the most common and tenacious ones, and also give advice on how to get rid of bugs in the kitchen. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to save the cereal; you can only throw it away and do some general cleaning.

Bugs in the croup – Mukoed Suriname

The bug that most often appears in cereals is the Surinam mucoed (“Oryzaephilus surinamensis” lat.). Dark brown in color, sometimes even black, and 2-3.5 mm long.

It doesn't matter to them where they get divorced. So they appeared at your home, most likely from a store or market.

But it is not a fact that they appeared there on their own. They feel great in elevators or granaries.

Watch the video, here you can see bugs running around in semolina.

The bug lays eggs that can be seen with the naked eye. They, together with the grain, undergo primary processing.

And then, already packaged, they end up in our kitchen along with rice, pasta, semolina and other cereals. However, if you think that by throwing away only the bag of cereal in which you found this pest, you will get rid of it, then you are deeply mistaken.

This bug will not disdain not only all types of cereals, but also dried fruits, dry kvass, cookies, and crackers.

Mukoed Suriname

How to get rid of bugs in cereals

Defeating this little pest of mucous is not as easy as it seems at first glance. The fact is that they lay their eggs in any place and are completely unnoticeable.

You may not even see them on a bag of spoiled cereal, where, after you have shaken it out, they continue to multiply. Effective way There is no way to get rid of brown bugs in the kitchen, but we will try to give you some tips.

You will need

• Disinfectant;
• Glass jars with lids;
• Bay leaf;
• Muscat;
• Garlic.

Stages

1. All infected packages should be scanned. Even if there are not many bugs, you will have to throw away the cereal, since the eggs will still remain. Look at flour, unopened bags, crackers, and indeed all bread and cereal products. The favorite delicacy of these bugs is flour, so it is better to throw it away immediately.
2. Rinse thoroughly hot water cabinets with vinegar or Domestos or any other disinfectant. For complete destruction, it is better to do this procedure several times. Cereals that have not been contaminated should be placed in plastic bags and put on the balcony or in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks. After this time, making sure that no bugs have appeared, pour the cereal into a glass container with lids. How to get rid of kitchen bugs? We've almost got it done.

Advice! To avoid the appearance of larvae on the walls of the container, solid containers should be thoroughly washed at least once a month.

1. Place bay leaves in the cabinets, peel the garlic and place in the corners. Sprinkle nutmeg onto the adhesive plaster and also place it in the corners of the cabinet.

Prevention measures

Let's assume that you have destroyed the bugs and your cereals have been left in the cold for the allotted time.

How can we avoid such surprises in the future?

• Make bags from canvas material. Boil them in a strong salt solution for 30 minutes. Let it also cool in the solution and only then squeeze out the bags. Then you should dry them at room temperature and iron them with a hot iron. In bags treated with salt in this way, bugs will no longer appear.
• You can also bring bugs from the store, so after you have bought the cereals, it is best to place them in the freezer for several days. It is better to store nuts and raisins in the refrigerator, and cereals in bags or glass jars. How to get rid of bugs in the kitchen is not as difficult a problem as it seems.

Grinder

There is another type of harmful bugs that appear in the kitchen. They are called Grinders (“Anobiidae” in Latin). Their head is shaped like a hood. Their body color ranges from dark yellow to brown. There are two types: brownie and bread.

In our cities, as a rule, there is a bread grinder. It is smaller in size than the brownie and, in addition to wood, feeds on bread and crackers.

It can also lay eggs in books. Let's figure out how to get rid of bugs in the kitchen.

How to fight

• Seal everything wooden slits- the floor, the window sill, the cracks in the kitchen furniture, in general, everything you find.
• Seal the entire cereal hermetically. No bags, only dishes that are sealed tightly.
• They love sweets and carbohydrates. It is better to put all dried fruits in the refrigerator.
• Place borax on the shelves; you can buy it at the pharmacy. But spraying with various chemicals is not the best solution.

Advice! Temperature attack doesn't work. Bugs can live and reproduce at temperatures from minus 15 degrees to plus 50 degrees hot.

Methods for controlling black beetles

On initial stages If black beetles settle in or at home, it will be enough to get rid of spoiled cereals or flour, wash their storage containers and shelves with detergent. Insect control wooden houses made difficult by the fact that they can lay their larvae in the smallest cracks in the walls.

In order to completely eradicate uninvited guests from your home, you need to approach this comprehensively. You should definitely carry out wet cleaning using potassium permanganate or any detergent. It is necessary to check all cereals and flour for the presence of contaminated items. In addition, it is necessary to take special measures to prevent the appearance of new insects.

The appearance of a new wave of black beetles occurs after 2-3 weeks. This is due to the fact that this is the time it takes for the larva to transform into an adult. Therefore, cleaning should not be delayed while there is a chance to exterminate immature insects. There is no point in sifting contaminated flour, since the eggs are so small that they do not stay on even the finest sieve. In addition, they are impossible to see because they are colored with cereals. In common people they are called Khrushchak deceivers. Due to small in size, insects easily find hiding places. Cutting off access to flour and cereals does not exclude the possibility of switching to others.

Large representatives of black beetles can be observed in bookstores. They may leave their larvae in dusty, dry corners. To protect fresh food from insect attacks, they must be frozen for about a day or calcined in the oven. The shelves where black beetles lived should be washed with vinegar and soda. After this, it is recommended to treat them with dichlorvos and rinse again with detergent.

Garlic left in a container with cereal works well against insects. You can experiment with lavender oil. Cotton pads should be moistened with it and left on the shelves. However, here you need to be prepared for the fact that the cereal can absorb the lavender smell.

Tip 3: What to do to prevent bugs from getting into rice and flour

Bugs in flour, cereals, and some other products can appear due to improper storage, or they can sneak into the house along with the purchased products. The presence of such uninvited guests is unpleasant in itself, the quality of products contaminated with insects inevitably decreases, and if the pests have managed to multiply, you can only get rid of them by throwing away all products with signs of infection and doing a general cleaning. It's much easier to prevent insects from getting into your kitchen.

You will need

• - garlic;
• - red pepper;
• - steel wire;
• - vinegar;
• - salt solution.

Instructions

Famous folk remedy, which helps repel pests from stocks of cereals and flour - ordinary garlic. Place a clove of unpeeled garlic in containers with bulk products. There is no need to cut garlic - whole garlic is no less effective, but cereals and flour will not emit a specific smell. A bay leaf and a piece of dried lemon zest also have a deterrent effect.

Another folk way Protect food from bugs by placing a piece of thick steel wire or a large nail in the container. There is no need to wash them before placing them in the cereal, so as not to start rusting; just wipe them well with a dry cloth. You can put a red pod in rice hot pepper– it will not only prevent bugs from getting into the croup, but will also help avoid the characteristic unpleasant odor, which appears in rice when long-term storage.

Store flour and cereals in glass or plastic containers with tight-fitting or screw-on lids. If you make large stocks of flour and cereals, if possible, store the main stock in a cool, dry place, pouring a little into containers for everyday use as you use them.

If it is more convenient for you to store flour and rice in canvas bags, before pouring the food into them, wet the bags in saline solution and dry without rinsing.

Most often, bugs enter the house along with cereals and flour purchased from sellers who are not responsible enough for the storage conditions of products, or purchased in bulk. Insects can also move into bags and paper or plastic bags from other products stored nearby - for example, from an opened package of dried fruit or starch. If you purchase rice and wheat or rye flour by weight, carefully inspect the products - you can see small larvae in rice, and in flour there may be small lumps containing insect pupae inside.

If you suspect that already purchased products are contaminated, place the packages, without opening, in the freezer for a day, and only then pour them into prepared containers. The rice can be washed thoroughly and then dried. Before storing, carefully sift the flour through a fine sieve. You can only heat food in the oven at a low temperature, otherwise the quality of the food will suffer.

Regularly clean the places where you store cereals and flour, sweep away spilled food, and wipe after wet cleaning inner surface kitchen cabinets and tables with a cloth dampened with vinegar and dry thoroughly before placing bags and containers of food inside. Do not pour cereals and flour into containers without first washing them with hot water.

Where do bugs in cereals come from?

Bugs appear, as is known, from larvae. But then the question is: where did the larvae in the cereal come from? The cereal was contaminated with them even before it was purchased at the store. Adult females can lay eggs at the hatchery, in warehouse, during packaging and even on the field. If you open the package, even if not immediately after purchase, and find bugs, rest assured that you purchased already contaminated cereal in a store.

Why is this happening? Yes, because during the processing of cereals or its packaging, you can see with the naked eye only adult individuals or lumps glued together with cobwebs. Layed eggs cannot be seen. Of course, by purchasing products from reputable brands, you have more guarantees that the cereal will be of high quality and not contaminated with larvae. Most often, black bugs can be found in products such as ground and whole cereals, dry vegetables, dried fruits, various spices, nuts, and flour. Less commonly found in pasta (if only of very low quality), crackers, bread, and cookies.

How to deal with bugs that have settled in cereals

If you just notice at least one bug in the croup or a hint of its appearance, you need to act immediately. Note: 2 bugs in 2-3 months can produce millions of offspring, which will very quickly turn into the same bugs. So what should we do then? It's better to prevent the problem in advance. So, having discovered bugs in cereals, it is necessary, without regret, to throw it away. After this, look at the remaining cereals that were next to the contaminated cereal. If everything is in order, in your opinion, you don’t have to throw them away.

After removing everything from the cabinet, you should wash the shelves with a disinfectant or soda. This way you will disinfect surfaces and prevent the emerging bugs from multiplying further. If you find bugs in cereals in winter, the spoiled ones should be thrown out, and those cereals that were stored nearby should be exposed to the cold (on the balcony) for a while for preventive purposes.