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The confused flour beetle

Latin: Tribolium confusum. 3-4 mm long beetles ranging in colour from light reddish brown to dark brown. The confused flour beetle and its larvae look like small versions of the dark flour beetle and its larvae. It can damage grain and feed storages, but can also be found in grocery warehouses and in private households. […]

Flour beetle

(Latin: Tribolium confusum) This beetle is like a slightly smaller and paler edition of the preceding species. It is found mainly in flour and cereal products, but it also attacks a variety of other foodstuffs, such as beans, dried fruit, spices and chocolate. It is particularly injurious in warehouses and in factories making starch products, […]

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