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The confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum, is a small reddish-brown beetle in the darkling beetle family Tenebrionidae. It is a cosmopolitan stored-product pest found in flour mills, warehouses, food-processing areas, and homes, where it can infest flour, cereals, and other dry foods. Its common...

Tribolium castaneum, the red flour beetle, is a small beetle in the darkling beetle family Tenebrionidae and a widespread pest of stored grain and processed cereal products. It is a secondary pest because it commonly develops in milled material such as flour, grain dust, and other food products rath...

The Pale Mottled Willow (Caradrina clavipalpis) is a moth in the family Noctuidae, found across Europe, North Africa, and western Asia. Its grayish, mottled adults fly in summer, while the larvae feed on low-growing plants and on root and tuber crops such as potato and beet. The species is also asso...

The khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium) is a dermestid beetle native to South Asia and one of the world's most destructive stored-product pests, included on lists of the worst invasive species. Its larvae feed on grain and other dry stored foods, contaminating them with cast skins and body hairs, a...

Tropical warehouse moth is the common name for Cadra cautella, a small pyralid moth also called the almond moth; older references may use the scientific name Ephestia cautella. It is a stored-product pest distributed across tropical and subtropical regions and can persist in heated buildings in temp...

The rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, is a small snout beetle that infests stored cereal grains in many parts of the world. Adult beetles are usually reddish-brown to nearly black and have four lighter markings on the wing covers; unlike the granary weevil, they have functional wings and can fly. Fema...

The maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais, is a snout beetle that attacks stored maize and other cereal grains. Adults are usually dark brown to black with four reddish or yellowish spots on the wing covers, and they have functional wings, allowing them to fly between grain stores. The female places an e...

The grain weevil, Sitophilus granarius, is a flightless snout beetle that infests stored wheat, barley, oats, rye, rice, and other cereal grains. Adult beetles are dark brown to nearly black, with a long curved snout, and the larvae develop inside individual kernels after the female drills an openin...