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Ephestia kuehniella

Zeller, 18791475 / 62.063

Davey, P., 2009: Historically a species found in flourmills, grain and flour warehouses, the larva feeding on meal and flour, particularly wheat flour, cereals, nuts, pasta, dried mushrooms and other vegetable products, occasionally also on dried insects. It has a worldwide distribution, and was, at least in Britain in times gone by, a serious pest inside the warmer parts of flourmills because the combination of flour and larval webbing clogged up machinery: Lytchett Minster, at Organford Mill,... Read More

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Additional Stats

Wingspan: 20-25mm
Flight: April to October (Three gens)
Foodplant:   mainly wheat-flour, also other stored food material
Nat Status: Adventive
Verification Grade:  Adult: 3
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