Latin: Stegobium paniceum. 2 – 4 mm long, reddish-brown and hairy. It is widely spread all over the world. It lives in bread. Not freshly baked bread and the like, but the hard baked goods or stale, dry bread. It lives in various products: biscuits, dog biscuits, cookies, cereals, rice, pasta, herbs and pharmaceuticals to […]
Biscuit or drugstore beetle
( Latin: Stegobium paniceum) This is actually a member of the furniture beetle family which has become adapted to a diet of starch-containing foods, and the round exit-holes made by the larvae of this beetle are exactly like the holes in timber made by furniture beetles. The species has become distributed to all parts of […]