Confused Flour Beetle (Also see Rust-Red Flour Beetle)
Granary Weevil (Also see Rice Weevil)
Mediterranean Flour Moth or Mill Moth
Red-legged Ham or Copra Beetle
Rice Weevil (Also see Granary Weevil)
Rust-Red Flour Beetle (Also see Confused Flour Beetle)
Tropical Warehouse or Almond Moth (Also see Warehouse, Tobacco or Cocoa Moth)
Warehouse, Tobacco or Cocoa Moth (Also see Tropical Warehouse or Almond Moth)
Appearance
Adult : 16mm (with wings spread), pale-grey wings, with outer two-third of front wings reddish-brown with coppery shine; Larvae : 9-19mm long, dirty white to pinkish/greenish/brownish body (depending on food), with yellowish-brown to reddish-brown head, 5 pairs of well developed pro-legs on abdomen.
Life Cycle
Eggs (up to 500 per female) laid on surface of produce or dropped between sack fibres. Entire life cycle takes between 25-135 days, depending on conditions.
Notes
Adults do not feed and are short-lived. Larvae are serious pest of cereals (prefer broken grain) and processed food. They are surface feeders and produce a lot of webbing and frass throughout the infested part of the material, thus also contaminating it. In heavy infestations, webbing can completely cover the surface of the produce.
