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Are uninvited house guests having lunch in your kitchen cabinets? Many kinds of 

 beetles and moths attack stored food products. They can be found not only in pack- 

 ages or containers of food, but also in the cracks and crevices of cabinets or cup- 

 boards. At the same time you do your spring housecleaning, you can give these 

 pests their eviction notice. Follow these three simple steps: 



1. Remove all food packages from the cabinets and examine a small amount from 

 suspect packages under a bright light for signs of insects. 



2. Vacuum or carefully brush out cabinets and shelving. 



3. Spray the entire inside inside surface of the empty cabinets with a 5-percent 

 DDT or methoxychlor oil solution from a pressurized spray can. 



NOT FOR PUBLICATION: SPECIAL NOTE TO RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS 



You can have University of Illinois entomologists on your station each week telling 

 farmers how to best control their insect pests. All you do is telephone (217) 333-2614 

 each Friday. An automatic answering device will play a 1:40 tape summarizing the 

 week's insect activity and forecasting next week's problems. The summary gives only 

 the highlights. We hope you will continue to use these in-depth written reports. 

 Contact your county farm adviser for the local angle. 



Have your recorder running when you call . If you are in the northern-half of Illi - 

 nois , call between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. each Friday. If you are in the southern-half 

 of the state , call between 11:05 a.m. and 1 p.m. each Friday. 



For more information or in case of difficulty, call Mr. Cliff Scherer, Agricultural 

 Communications Office, 530 Mumford Hall, University of Illinois, Urbana. Phone 

 (217) 333-4783. 



CAUTION: BEFORE APPLYING INSECTICIDES, READ THE LABELS CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW ALL 

 PRECAUTIONS. THIS WILL NOT ONLY INSURE PERSONAL SAFETY, BUT WILL ALSO PREVENT 

 RESIDUE HAZARDS. 



This weekly report was prepared by H. B. Petty, Steve Moore, Roscoe Randell, and 

 Don Kuhlman, University of Illinois College of Agriculture and Illinois Natural 

 History Survey, in cooperation with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Plant 

 Pest Control Branch, from information gathered by entomologists and cooperators 

 who send in weekly reports from their own localities. 



