Nests should be removed and a suitable insecticide used if necessary. Biscuit beetle can also be associated with birds’ nests. The area should then be thoroughly cleaned, and a residual insecticide labelled for ‘crawling insects’ can be used. The source of the infestation should be traced. However, in temperate climates one generation per year is widely reported. In warm countries this beetle has up to four generations in one year. The complete life cycle of biscuit beetles is 7 months. The larval period passes through several months (usually 6-7 months) depending on the food availability and ranges from 4 to 5 months, with the pupal stage lasting from 12 to 18 days. The female beetle lays egg singly up to 70-80 eggs at once in food sources. They also called Drug Store Beetles as they have an affinity to infest pharmaceutical products, such as prescribed drugs.Īdult beetles are 2-3mm in length, reddish-brown in colour and similar to both the Tobacco Beetle and Common Furniture Beetle. Stegobium paniceum larva is a serious concern for museums and antique collectors. This beetle can bore and pass through tin, aluminium foil and lead sheets. The main non-food materials are leather, wool, hair, wooden objects, museum specimens and dried plant collections. Biscuit beetles feed on bread, biscuits, flour, cookies, chocolates and spices. The spokeswoman urged Nicky to contact the council on 01709 336009 or email for further support.Biscuit beetles are omnivorous. Nicky said the problem had still not be solved despite the council’s repeated works, adding that she believed it may be connected to a carpet in her home. “The council would like to remind tenants that it does not give any guarantee, express, implied or otherwise, that the treatment of biscuit beetles shall in all cases solve the problem.” “In addition, on the September 24, the disused bird’s nest which was discovered to be the source of the infestation, was removed by the council and some minor remedial work carried out to replace a missing brick, where the nest had lodged. “The last treatment, on September 22, found very little evidence of biscuit beetle activity. “Following this initial treatment the property was treated again on several separate occasions. “This indicated that the infestation was possibly from a bird's nests and advised the tenant to have the property checked for any nests and have them removed. “The council’s pest control team first treated the property in March this year and at the time advised the customer that as they had biscuit beetle in the bedrooms on the window sills,” the spokeswoman said. “I keep clearing them away but they always come back.”Ī council spokeswoman said the property had been sprayed several times with insecticide by pest control workers and a bird’s nest on a wall of the house had been removed, which they hoped would solve the problem. “The beetles are about the size of head lice,” she said. Nicky, of Michael Croft, Wath, said she believed the problem could be linked to the carpet but Rotherham Borough Council were unwilling to replace it. “The council won’t do anything but keep spraying but it makes no difference.” “It’s disgusting - I even found them crawling across my son when he was asleep in bed. “I’ve had to bag up my children’s toys because the beetles kept attacking them. “The house has been sprayed five times but they are still there,” said the frustrated mum of two, who said the infestation had gone on almost a year. Nicky Parkinson said the little creepy critters were munching through her children’s toys and kept coming back even when her house was sprayed by council workers. HERE’S a story to make your skin crawl.Ī family have been driven up the wall by a plague of biscuit beetles.
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