Recently my wife has found quite a few of these pin head sized bugs in our pantry. They seem particularly attracted to pasty, cereal, olive oil. Wife is putting everything in plastic containers or bags. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them? I think they are coming in on either potatoes or onions. Thoughts please. Thanks

It may be these: Tiny Black Bugs in the Kitchen

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How to get rid of them:

I have had these same bugs. I am not sure of the name but I consider them flour weevils. they come in all flour and if you have flour around long enough, they hatch. If you have some old flour, get rid of it, and clean up well.

Additional: After further research, found this:

The key control method is ALWAYS finding the source of the pantry beetles in your home and throwing it away outside of the home. No amount of spraying will resolve this issue if you cannot locate the source that they are feeding on and breeding within.

Since many pantry pests can fly, you may think the source couldn’t possibly be in your pantry since you see so many in a different area of your home. It is important to go through every stored food product as well as pet foods to find where the activity is coming from.

Once the source is removed, the remaining pests in your home will be the adult pantry pests that will be busy looking for a food source to deposit their eggs at.

So that they do not re-infest other food products in your home, make sure all food items are in air-tight, hard plastic containers or jars. Even unopened items may be infested so be sure to check everything.

The remaining pantry pests in your home can actually be removed via vacuum and do not require the use of pesticides to control them.

Make sure to also do a deep-cleaning of the cracks and crevices in your home and underneath furniture and appliances as best as possible to remove any potential food particles they may be used to deposit eggs in. Be sure to dispose of the vacuumed contents outside of the home when you are done.

Here is a picture of a rice weevil


I can’t tell from your pic (not zoomed in enough) if they’re the same. Do they look the same?

Do you notice one day per week you have more?

I had a bag of rice five or seven years ago that had rice weevils. They hatched once per week so every Tuesday I was noticing an increase in bugs coming from my pantry. Finally tracked it down to the Rice in the back and Sigforum helped me identify it as a rice weevil. Now, I put a bag of rice in the freezer for 72 hours when I bring it home to try to kill off any rice weevils.

Bread beetles. They'll chew through packaging and lay eggs on things like bread, cereal, and pasta. Look for packages with small holes and discard them. The adults don't feed.

Yup, looks more like that bread beetle. Uggg. Nesting and hatching in my food. Wife's going to love that, looks like it's all going to the trash. This ought to keep her busy for a while!

Sometimes they're called "drugstore beetles." We had an infestation of them a few months ago. They're the only thing I've ever seen that will eat dry pasta. They chew little circular holes right through it.

They aren't weevils, weevils have pointy noses like tatortodd's photo.

We took everything out of the pantry, inspected everything, threw away everything grain/cereal/pasta/rice that had bugs in it or that was open, and had an exterminator spray some non-toxic bug killer. We haven't seen another one since a few days after that.

They do sometimes get into unopened containers, so you have to look carefully. Any container of pasta or rice that has more dust at the bottom than you would expect is probably infested.

She’s been storing the pasta in those nice plastic containers but unopened things like boxes of rice or mac and cheese is all going to trash. Damn things!!! Thanks guys.

Looks like a Flour beetle on the left.Drugstore beetle on right as suggested above. Either red or confused. They call them confused because they dont travel in a straight line.In a bakery you look for trails in the dust on the floor.They track like a drunken sailor.Bread beetle on the right

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Here is a picture of a rice weevil

Damn ...that's a big bug !!

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Originally posted by mike28w:

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
Here is a picture of a rice weevil

Damn ...that's a big bug !!

If you're not sure if something is infested, put it in the freezer for a few days. If it was infested, it's not anymore.