Also known as pantry pests, stored product pests can lead to widespread infestations. They can attack and contaminate many different types of food items, including whole and processed grains and spices, in restaurants, bars, hotels, food processing facilities, and grocery stores. The eggs and larvae may be in the packages, developing without your knowledge. Generally, seeing an adult is the first sign that there is an infested product. Though rarely associated with food-borne illnesses, stored product pests threaten food manufacturers' reputations and profits through recalls, waste, and returns.
Commercial stored product pest control
The best defense against stored product pests is to prevent infestations from happening in the first place. At Terminix, our stored product pest monitoring and mating disruption services proactively monitor for stored product pests and pinpoint the food source sustaining them before an infestation develops.
- Stored Product Pest Monitoring: Proactively monitoring for stored product pests in your facility serves as the frontline defense against widespread infestations, ensuring new activity is detected early, and your facility is protected.
- Indianmeal Moth Pheromone Mating Disruption: Management and control of Indianmeal moth populations involves disrupting their mating habits with dispensers that saturate the area with female pheromones to confuse the males and prevent or delay mating.
If your business is currently dealing with a stored product pest infestation, Terminix can help with our escalated services, which include conventional, ultra-low volume (ULV), and fumigation treatments.
- Conventional treatment: If limited activity is found, the primary measures of control include finding, isolating, and disposing of the infested product. In addition, the damaged product and spillage are cleaned or vacuumed up. Thereafter, targeted treatments with labeled insecticides and insect growth regulators (IGRs) are performed in affected areas to control residual activity and prevent further infestation.
- ULV Treatment: Ultra-low volume (ULV) space treatments are an effective tool in an integrated approach to controlling pests like stored product insects. When a ULV treatment is made, small insecticide particles are introduced into the air, where they float and impinge on exposed stages of the target insect.
- Fumigation: A pest control treatment method that utilizes gas to eliminate pest activity in all life stages.