How to separate beetles from a bag and flour
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Freeze and kill it: It is advised to keep packets of spices and flour in the freezer for four days as soon as you have bought it. You can do this to flour, oats, cookies, corn meal, and spices. This will kill all the larvae and eggs (if) present inside the packet and will stop further infestation. Take it out and store it in the normal place.
Bay or neem leaves: Bay leaf is one of the best remedies to get rid of beetles. Bay or neem leaves can be put inside loose flour in containers that are more prone to contamination.
Cloves: This is a great idea if you are living alone and have faced this problem for the first time. Cloves are widely available and will fight off the bugs and will also avoid their infestation. You can also sprinkle some cloves around your cupboard shelves and pantry area.
Matchbox: Sounds weird but it is a great way to repel weevils as matchbooks contain sulphur and sulphur is not liked by weevils. Keep the matchbox open near the grains and weevils will not be seen thereabouts. You may also keep small bags of black pepper in your pantry.
Keep the infested grains in sunlight: If a large quantity of flour has been attacked by beetles, just keep it in the sunlight. This will shoo them away as these bugs do not like the sunlight and will look for a dark and moist place. Keep the contaminated flour in the sunlight for a day and you get rid of weevils easily.
Other home remedies: You can either put ginger, garlic or a whole turmeric inside rice container to keep rice bugs away.