Weevils, flour beetles and meal moths — out of your kitchen and out of your food.
If you've ever opened a bag of flour or a box of cereal and found it crawling with tiny insects, you've met the pantry pests. These insects are so small they usually go unnoticed until they're discovered inside a food package — by which point they've often spread to neighboring products on the shelf.
Strib Pest Control treats pantry pest infestations in homes, grocery stores and food facilities across the Madison area, using non-toxic, food-safe methods first. No fumigating your kitchen — just careful source elimination that actually works.
Three groups cover nearly all stored-product pests in Wisconsin kitchens:
Signs: small holes and gnaw marks in grain products, dusty insect trails through flour, webbing or clumping in packages, and discolored, mold-prone food.
Pantry pests don't bite or spread disease to people — the damage is to your food and your wallet. Infested products are contaminated with insects, larvae, webbing and waste, and must be discarded. Left alone, an infestation migrates through the pantry package by package, and moth species can persist for months by pupating in cracks, ceiling corners and appliance gaps far from the original food source. For grocery and food businesses, stored-product pests are also a serious audit and compliance issue.
Spraying shelves is the wrong tool for this job — we don't apply pesticides around your food. Our approach:
No — only infested or suspect products. We help you identify which items to discard and which are safe. Sealed glass jars and cans are fine; anything in paper, cardboard or thin plastic near the infestation should be inspected carefully.
Indian meal moth larvae leave the food source to pupate — in ceiling corners, shelf cracks, even behind picture frames. Killing the flying adults does nothing about the larvae still developing in a forgotten package or crevice. Source removal plus pheromone traps ends the cycle.
Not around your food. Pantry pest control is done through source removal, sanitation and pheromone monitoring, with at most a precise crack-and-crevice application in shelf joints. It is one of the least chemical-dependent treatments we perform.
Fast, honest, guaranteed pest control across Madison and Dane County.
