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 moth: Yellowish with small black spots on wings; Larvae : Pale greenish with a pinkish warts dorsally and fine hairs arising on warts on the body, head and prothoracic shield are brown, grow up to 20-24 mm long.
Life Cycle
Eggs are pinkish oval flat laid singly or in groups of 2 or 3 in between the warts or just below the style on the ovary and on the tender developing capsules. Rarely eggs are laid on unopened male flowers or on leaf axils. Larvae hatch in 6-7 days and feed for 12- 16 days and pupates inside the damaged stem, peduncle or capsule in a thin silken cocoon and emerges as adult in 7-10 days. The life cycle ranges from 25 to 33 days.
Notes
Attacks crops such as cardamom, castor, ginger, turmeric, guava, peaches, cacao, pear, avacado, jack, mango etc. Larvae bore in to the peduncle and capsules, damaged capsules are webbed together, peduncles and capsules show galleries made of silk and frass.
