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Both flour mites and weevils will have come into your kitchen through your flour or wheat products. A few flour bugs can lay many eggs, and if your products are being stored for a long time, these eggs can hatch and cause an infestation. Other factors, such as heat, can increase the reproduction rate of kitchen mites and weevils, making the problem much worse. How To Get Rid of Flour Weevils & Mites Lots of the manufacturers of insect ingredients are still reasonably small companies, so sourcing larger quantities might be challenging

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We know consumers are happy to pay a premium for products with such environmental and health advantages,” adds Ordonez. “This can be factored into the overall cost of the product, as you would do with any bakery addition, such as seeds, grains or other protein sources.”