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Crop Protection :: Storage insects and their management

Long headed flour beetle: Latheticus oryzae

Host range: Cereal flours, packaged food, rice and rice products, grains with excessive dust, dockage and broken grains with high moisture contents preferred.

Symptom of damage: Both grubs and adults feed.

Identification of the pest:

Egg - White, smooth, cylindrical eggs at random in grain and seams of the bags.
Grub - Active grub feeds voraciously.
Pupa- Pupa is naked.
Adult- Light brown with elongated body, resembles Tribolium sp. Antennae shorter than head, 11 segmented with 5 clubbed apical segments.


Grub	Adult