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Crop Protection :: Storage insects and their management

Cigarette beetle: Lasioderma sericorne

Host range: Wheat flour, cereal bran, peanuts, cocoa beans, cottonseed, spices and even
insecticides containing pyrethrum, meat and fishmeal, ginger, turmeric and chillies.
Symptoms of damage

Grub causes the damage which made circular, pinhead sized bore holes on processed tobacco.


Grub	Adult	Infected Cigarette

Identification of the pest

Grub: White, fleshy and hairy grub.
Adult: Small, robust, oval, light brown round beetle with its thorax and head bent downward gives the insect a humped appearance. Elytra have minute hairs on them and are not striated.