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 : Small, soft bodied, creamish-greyish light brown, wingless.
Life Cycle
Eggs (20-50) laid in clusters near food source; 6 nymphal stages; life span from egg to adult is 30-60 days.
Notes
Found in damp places, among old books and papers (hence the term "booklice") in homes, libraries, warehouses, grain & flour mills, dried milk processing plants, museums (herbaria, insect collections, manuscripts, cardboard boxes, furniture stuffed with flax, jute or hemp). They are not lice but instead feed on moulds, fungi, cereals, pollen and sometimes, dead insects. They can bite.
