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 : Straw coloured fore-wings and whitish hind wings with apical light buff areas, wing-span 25-40mm. Larvae : 20mm long, white and mottled with brown when fully grown.
Life Cycle
Eggs (240, scale-like, overlapping) laid in 3-5 rows in masses of 4-100. Larvae hatch after 3-8 days and pupate after 22-45 days. Adults emerge after a pupation of 6-18 days.
Notes
Serious pest of sugarcane : larvae feed on the central whorl of leaves, which dries up forming dead heart. Crop yields can fall by 70% in cases of heavy infestation.
