cigarette bugs in house Are drugstore beetles dangerous? How to get rid of

Drugstore beetles ( Stegobium paniceum ) and cigarette beetles ( Lasioderma serricorne ) are similar in size but differ in appearance, behavior and the types of products they infest

Although the drugstore and cigarette beetles look very similar, they are distantly related and require different monitoring practices as they do not share the same sex pheromone

A cigarette beetle can be more troublesome when aromatic stored goods are involved, especially tobacco, spices and dried herbs

Cigarette beetles consume nuts and vegetables and will even eat through avocado or unripe bananas

Pupation occurs in loosely constructed pupal cells within the food source