Davey, P., 2009: A species that thrives in food warehouses, stores and dwellings, the larva feeding on grain, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, meal, and on dried vegetable and animal material. It is occasionally feral in southern England and has a worldwide distribution. In Dorset, the moth is an adventitious species being observed predominantly within or close to habitation: Wareham, (C Clutterbuck), Swanage, two larvae in a packet of cigarettes - moths bred (A Russell), Poole, a number of larvae in... Read More |