Where does flour & meal bugs come from?!
Where does flour & meal bugs come from?
if they don't come from the ground or earth, my neighbor wants to hear what yens say to this Q''
Answers: Don't know, but once you get them they are the dickens to get rid of. They just keep showing up in everything.
My best guess would be they come home from the store you bought it. Uninvited guest in your home! I think they live on the grain, and then it just gets passed on as the flour is processed. Flour bugs are, well, bugs that live in flour. Bug eggs make it through all the sifting, sorting, and filtering because they are about the same size as the flour particles. In coarsely ground flour, they have an easier time of it. After a while, they hatch and then bugs go through a life cycle in your cupboards. The only thing you can do about them is 1, keep your flour in a sealed container and 2, use it faster than the bugs cycle.
Here's a trick to keep bugs out of commercially packed flour:
The problem is, the bugs are already in the flour in the form of eggs when
you buy it. There's no practical way to prevent that, so the packagers
don't even try. What you do is bring your 5 lb. sack of flour home from
the store and put it in your freezer for 24 hours. That will kill the bug
eggs. Then store it in a sealed plastic container, a la Tupperware. Flour bugs come from the eggs of a small moth...