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Could Pantry Pests Be In Your Kansas Home Or Business?
10/24/13
Pantry pests, also referred to as stored product pests, can easily invade both homes and businesses in Kansas. Common types of pantry bugs found in Kansas City and surrounding areas include pantry beetles like the saw-toothed grain beetle as well as other pests like Indian meal moths, bean weevils and many others. Pantry pests inside homes or business are able to remain active and breed year round, making it necessary to look out for these pests no matter what time of year it is. Once inside your home or business, pantry pests will invade dry grain products and other food sources found inside. Discovering pantry pests in your home or business is not only gross but means that the food has been contaminated and needs to be thrown out...costing you time and money. Having a quality pest control service in Topeka established will help to prevent these types of pests and other pest from entering into your home and destroying your food sources and other personal property.
A very common way that pantry pests enter into homes is through food that you have purchased at the store. They can also enter into homes through cracks and gaps around windows and doors and through holes in screens. Once they are inside your home they will feed on your dry goods like cereal, flour, chocolate, sugar, tobacco and dried fruit. Not only that but pantry pests will also breed and lay eggs inside the food making the it unfit for consumption.
Businesses can also be greatly affected by panty pests if not properly prevented against. Having products in your facility become infested with pantry pests will cause you to have to discard all of those products resulting in a loss of inventory and profits. Having a problem with pantry pests or any other type of pest in your facility can cost you your business’ reputation and turn customers away. The best way to protect your business, inventory, and reputation is with the help of a professional pest control service to be sure that pantry pests do not find their way into your product.
For help with pantry pest control in Topeka or with pest control in Kansas City, contact Schendel Pest Services today. Whether in a residential home or commercial facility, the KS pest control experts will be able to work with you to develop a unique plan to help you eliminate your current infestation, help to make fixes around your home or business to prevent new infestations, and provide you with year-round pest control services to control pantry pests in your home or facility.