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: Forewings white with brownish streaks all over and yellowish steak along the anterior margin; hindwings white with black markings and yellow band on head; Larvae : Reddish brown with black bands on either end having long reddish brown hairs all over the body, grows up to 5 cm long.
Life Cycle
Egg (600-700) creamy or bright yellow coloured, laid in groups on undersurface of the leaves. Larvae hatch in 2-3 days and feed for 40- 50 days, grown up larvae burrow into moist soil and pupate in earthen cells at a depth of 10-20 cm. Pupa undergo diapause in the soil till next year.
Notes
Devastating pest of rain-fed ground nut crop, also feeding on sorghum, cotton, castor,finger-millet etc. Larvae feed gregariously by scraping the under surface of tender leaflets leaving the upper epidermal layer intact.
