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Larger Cabinet Beetle |
The cabinet beetles are pests of granaries, flour
mills, food-packaging plants and warehouses and may be
brought into homes via infested grain, seed or flour
products. They are known to infest cereals, dried plant
products, cocoa, corn meal, milk powder, dried soups,
wheat, rice, seeds, dried insects and woolens.
The larger cabinet beetle, Trogoderma inclusum LeConte,
is an
oval, blackish beetle mottled with reddish-brown, brown
and grayish scales. The larva is worm-like and covered
with short yellowish hairs, including a short tuft at the
tip of the abdomen. |