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: Small moth with silvery body, forewings grey-brown with minute dark spots and have a narrow fringe of hairs, hind wings are dirty white; Larvae : White to yellow or greenish with brown head and body turns to red colour at pupation.
Life Cycle
Egg (100-150) individually laid on the under surface of leaves or on exposed tubers. Pupates in a silken cocoon among thrash, clods of earth, on ground, on seams of bag and in the crevices in the floor or on walls.
Notes
It is pest of importance on potato both in the field and in storage, larva tunnels into foliage, stem and tubers which leads to loss of leaf tissue, death of growing points and weakening or breaking up of stems. In tubers, irregularly shaped galleries with excrement near tuber eyes.
