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: brownish with short snout and papillate scales measuring about 6mm long; Grub: fleshy, light yellow with a dark head and apodous.
Life Cycle
Eggs (12-36) deposited singly by scooping out the surface of the developing fruit. Grubs hatches in 7 days and after the completion of larval period pupate inside the nut itself and emerges as adult after 7 days, total life cycle is about 50 days.
Notes
Grubs, immediately after hatching, tunnel in a zig-zag manner through the pulp, endocarp and the seed coat and reach the cotyledons. They feed on cotyledons and destroy them. Adults feed on developing seeds.
