Stored Product Pests Often Defy Simple Solutions

摘要

Of all the chin-scratching obstacles we face, residential stored product pest problems can be among the worst. Most of them are a simple matter of producing from the pantry a 1965 box of cornmeal mix that is dripping with flour beetles. Sometimes they're fun, like when you pull out a post-Depression era box of raisins that has a platoon of indianmeal moth larvae fast-roping to safety as you present your prize to a horrified homeowner. But every now and then you have beetles showing up on a counter bytwos and threes and all your careful inspections come up empty. It's frustrating. You feel so forsaken by the skills that have made you what you are today. You glance toward the heavens in frustration and offer this humble supplication: "What's the deal?"