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Meal Moth

Pyralis farinalis

About

A distinctive moth with olive and reddish-brown banded wings that infests stored grain and flour. Larvae live in silken tubes within infested food products.

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Did You Know?

Its larval silk tubes can form dense mats in stored grain, binding the product into solid masses.