Methods to avoid flour bugs: Store the flour in a sealed plastic bag, store it in the refrigerator, and use fumigation to kill it.

1. Use sealed plastic bags to store flour

You can use sealed plastic bags to store flour. Sealed plastic bags can isolate oxygen and isolate flour from the air. In this case, the flour will not be prone to insects, nor will it become damp and moldy.

2. Odor fumigation method

Pack star anise, pepper, ginger, garlic cloves, etc. with strong smell in small cloth bags and put them between the rice, noodles and other grains in big bags. in a cool place, this will also keep the rice and noodles free from insects throughout the summer.

3. Store the flour in the refrigerator

If the flour will not be consumed in the short term, you can store the flour in the freezer of the refrigerator. No matter how long it is kept in the low temperature of the refrigerator, the flour will not go bad or get worms.

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How to deal with worms in flour:

1. After the flour has worms, move the flour to a dry and sealed container, and put it into a dry and sealed container. The collected poplar leaves are put into a container and sealed together with flour. After four or five days, open the storage container and you will find that the larvae and eggs have been killed. Then use a dustpan or sieve to filter the flour before eating.

2. Insert chopsticks into the insect-infested flour, wait for the insects on the surface of the flour to crawl up, and then pull them out to eliminate them. Then, spread the flour in a cool and ventilated place, and the bugs deep in the flour will crawl out of the warmer flour. This method is simple and convenient, but it takes a long time to get rid of pests.

3. In order to shorten the pest removal time, after removing the bugs on the surface, you can use a basket made of bamboo or wicker to remove the bugs in the flour; use a sieve made of bamboo sticks to sift out the bugs in the rice. .

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