01-08-2015, 12:14 PM
The only sure-fire solution we found is, I bought my wife a pasta maker. We keep the flour in a sealed plastic container inside the fridge. Way more ono than the dried crap but yes, also a lot of work and mess.
Less sure-fire but still workable is to buy your pasta from someplace that sells out every week. For example, we bought lasagna noodles at Orchidland (looked fine from the outside of the package) but could tell by looking at the noodles they had been burrowed into (eggs were layed). Pasta had been on their shelves too long. Go to Target at the wrong day of the week and they might not have any lasagna noodles in stock. That is the place to buy to get freshest no buggy pasta from the mainland.
If you don't have the pasta bugs in your house, you will eventually bring them (or eggs) from a store. If you do have them, you'll have to get rid of them, and that's not possible when there is food available to them. They can get into some "airtight" containers and they can chew through plastic bags. Unless they are frozen/refrigerated.
I'm not an entomologist but by "pasta bug" I'm referring to both pantry moths and the little tiny beetles (not cockroaches) that are the most common pests. We had pantry moth larvae and webbing inside an UNSEALED BOTTLE OF TACO SEASONING SALT FROM COSTCO. I didn't think that was even possible for a pest to get into, or live inside an environment with no water, air and being mostly salt. That's how horrible they are.
Less sure-fire but still workable is to buy your pasta from someplace that sells out every week. For example, we bought lasagna noodles at Orchidland (looked fine from the outside of the package) but could tell by looking at the noodles they had been burrowed into (eggs were layed). Pasta had been on their shelves too long. Go to Target at the wrong day of the week and they might not have any lasagna noodles in stock. That is the place to buy to get freshest no buggy pasta from the mainland.
If you don't have the pasta bugs in your house, you will eventually bring them (or eggs) from a store. If you do have them, you'll have to get rid of them, and that's not possible when there is food available to them. They can get into some "airtight" containers and they can chew through plastic bags. Unless they are frozen/refrigerated.
I'm not an entomologist but by "pasta bug" I'm referring to both pantry moths and the little tiny beetles (not cockroaches) that are the most common pests. We had pantry moth larvae and webbing inside an UNSEALED BOTTLE OF TACO SEASONING SALT FROM COSTCO. I didn't think that was even possible for a pest to get into, or live inside an environment with no water, air and being mostly salt. That's how horrible they are.