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: grayish white small moth; female with long antenna and three faint spots on forewings; male with fringed hairs in hind wings in apical and anal margin; Larvae : Greenish brown with dark brown head and prothorax and reddish mesothorax, brown stripes on the body.
Life Cycle
Eggs (130), laid in groups on leaves. Larvae hatch in 5 days and feed for about 40 days and pupates inside the web in thin silken cocoon and emerges as adult after 12 days.
Notes
It is a serious pest of coconut and typical signs of infestation are dried up patches on leaflets of the lower leaves. Larvae live on the under surface of leaflets within galleries of silk and frassy material and feed by scraping the green matter.
