Editing Pest control (section)

====Pantry pests====
[[File:Tribolium castaneum.jpg|thumb|The red flour beetle, ''[[Tribolium castaneum]]'', attacks stored grain products worldwide.]]

Insect pests including the [[Mediterranean flour moth]], the [[Indian mealmoth]], the [[cigarette beetle]], the [[drugstore beetle]], the [[confused flour beetle]], the [[red flour beetle]], the [[merchant grain beetle]], the [[sawtoothed grain beetle]], the [[wheat weevil]], the [[maize weevil]] and the [[rice weevil]] infest stored dry foods such as flour, cereals and pasta.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/mediterranean-flour-moth |title=Mediterranean Flour Moth (Department of Entomology) |website=Department of Entomology (Penn State University) |access-date=14 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=Jacobs/>

In the home, foodstuffs found to be infested are usually discarded, and storing such products in sealed containers should prevent the problem from reoccurring. The eggs of these insects are likely to go unnoticed, with the larvae being the destructive life stage, and the adult the most noticeable stage.<ref name=Jacobs>{{cite web |url=http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/cereal-and-pantry-pests |title=Cereal and Pantry Pests |author=Jacobs, Steve |date=1 January 2013 |publisher=Penn State: Department of Entomology |access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref> Since pesticides are not safe to use near food, alternative treatments such as freezing for four days at {{convert|0|°F}} or baking for half an hour at {{convert|130|°F}} should kill any insects present.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.extension.umn.edu/garden/insects/find/insect-pests-of-stored-food/ |title=Insect pests of stored foods |author1=Hahn, Jeffrey |author2=Jesse, Laura |author3=Pellitteri, Phil |publisher=University of Minnesota Extension |access-date=30 August 2017}}</ref>