People who live overseas and some of our missionaries ALWAYS HAVE to sift their flour when they use it. The bugs have had time to hatch. We just eat them while still in the egg form. LOL

I've been battling the things for two years. They get into everything, including the telephone. I picked up the receiver and a moth flew into my ear. Yikes! Nothing like the sound and feel of a critter flopping around in your ear. I drowned it with baby oil, flushed it out with a syringe. I'm going to try the bay leaves. I'm already using Revenge moth traps and those work although they can't keep up with the number of moths that I've had. My next cleaning will be down to the bare boards.

I did read that if you bring home your flour, oatmeal, etc. and you immediately put it in the freezer for a few days, that it will kill any eggs, bugs, etc. Don't know for sure if it works, but sounds like it might work.

I have pantry moths from bird seed. I am going to try the bay leaves. i have tried every thing else.
My bird loves peanuts and the moths love the peanuts to.
Thanks for the tip,

My husband and I have been married 47 yrs. and I have used bay leaves on my cupboard and pantry shelves more years than I can remember and have never been bothered with pests. I buy a cheap jar of the leaves and spread them around the shelves.

Both the freezing idea and the bay leaves are really effective. If your climate allows - a potted bay tree near the front door is most useful. Here we have generally low humidity and low rainfall, so I don't even bother drying the leaves....they are not "moist" and in my experience do not stain if used fresh. Make great little bookmarks too....

I think the worse was the time I discovered them and found the larva in a bag of flour!!!! It was a very long time before I bought another bag of flour. I made it a mission to accumulate a bunch of inexpensive plastic containers so now anything that could get or have those buggers is in a container. Once you get them it's really hard to get rid of them. I found them far from the kitchen when I was de-bugging!

I got them on of all things a house plant that I had bought. It took me yrs to get rid of them and every once in a while I'll still see them. The traps in the store is nothing but adhesive so I just bought the fly strips, the old fashioned kind that spirals down and before you know I kept seeing less and less of them. It was so much cheaper and worked so much better. I hate bugs, got rid of the roaches and water bugs with this stuff in a tube from combat, you need very little and it works fast. Everyonce in a while I'll see a water bug and then I put a little squeeze under the sink and they are gone.

Sadly I think this is true. My aunt gave me a large bag of flour she'd bought on sale (she lived alone) and it had been in her storage for about a year - in a metal tin. Yep my neighbour & I had a bake fest. Thought the little lumps were from the kids playing with homemade playdough. Nope weevils - I threw my batch of buns out but she fed her family hers.

Everything box I open I put the contents in a zip lock bag and then back in the box. The culprit was a box of stone ground organic cornmeal. I checked the other organic products and they all were infested. It's not worth buying the organic grains.