Stored Food Product

  • Ubran

    • vast majority of legal cases involing insects and arthropods are urban

    • cockroaches, ants, flies, and other vermin

    • stinging insects

    • Termites and wood-destroying insects

    • Bed bug

  • Stored products

    • Second largest number of legal cases

    • Insects can physically transmit diseases- sanitation

    • Insects or insect parts in food

      • Walk through food

    • Government food tolerance

  • FDA makes food laws

  • Contamination (need to finish): addition of foreign material to a product

  • Damage: refers to the condition of the product which shows the evidence of the pest habitation or feeding

  • Extraneous material (need to finish): any foreign matter in a product associated with objectionable conditions or practices in production, storage, or distribution

  • Infestation: presence of any live or dead life cycle stages of insects in a host or evidence of their presence or the establishment of an active breeding population

  • Whole or equivalent insect: whole insect, separate head to body portions with head attached

  • Insect parts and rat hair are not bad for health

  • In order to answer questions about food infesting insects

    • Pest identification

    • Biology pest

    • all control approaches

    • pesticide technology

    • Pesticdie and food safety issues

  • Pests need any source of water

    • most make their own water

  • Pest extract water from food in the rectum

  • know stuff about the different beetles in the chart

  • Cigarette and drugstore beetles

    • Most common of the pantry beetles

    • drugstore beetles: hairy, appears dull (more common)

    • Cigarette beetle: appear shiny

    • Eat almost anything

      • pasta

      • cookies and crackers

      • spices

      • candy (especially with nuts)

      • Dry dog or cat food

      • Dried flowers and potpourri

  • Granary weevils and (NEED TO FINISH)

  • Cowpea and bean weevils (NEED TO FINISH)

    • Not true weevils

    • wedged

  • Grain and flour beetles (NEED TO FINISH)

    • Sawtoothed and merchant grain beeltes

  • Moth Pantry pests(NEED TO FINISH)

  • Pheromone traps are not for control only to show they are there

  • *Know the 4 cockroaches that invest homes*