flour beetle


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Noun1.flour beetle - an insect that infests flour and stored grainsflour beetle - an insect that infests flour and stored grains
darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
genus Tribolium, Tribolium - flour beetles
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Two distinct levels for inheritance of phosphine resistance were diagnosed in red flour beetle where rph1 and rph2 genes were responsible for week and strong resistance, respectively (Bengston et al., 1999; Daglish et al., 2015).
Repellence activity of plant oils against red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) in wheat.
The research team investigated the red flour beetle to explore the effects of simulated heat waves on male reproduction.
Red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum Herbst (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) is a cosmopolitan pest of wheat especially wheat by-products.
Among various stored grain insect pests, khapra beetle and red flour beetle are pests of economic importance because they feed on a wide range of stored cereals and their products.
SPI that are commonly found in Malaysia include the cigarette beetle, rice weevil, sawtoothed grain beetle, and flour beetle. They are normally grouped into two categories, for example rice weevil and lesser grain borer are known as 'internal feeders' as they feed within the kernel.
4,8-Dimethyldecanal, the male aggregation pheromone of the red flour beetle. The red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum Herbst) is a major cosmopolitan pest of stored cereal grains and other agricultural products.
'Among the more important pests are the granary weevil, rice weevil, lesser grain borer, Angoumois grain moth, confused flour beetle and the saw-toothed grain beetle.
The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, is a primary target of the team's research because it eats both raw and processed cereal grains.
To examine how movement behavior at edges might explain distribution at edges, we analyzed the movement paths of the confused flour beetle, Tribolium confusum Jacquelin du Val (Tenebrionidae) in a resource-free arena (or "patch") bounded by a distinct but crossable edge.