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Mediterranean Flour Moth

Ephestia kuehniella

About

A major pest of flour mills that produces dense silken webbing that clogs milling machinery. It is pale grey with zigzag markings on the forewings.

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Did You Know?

It was the first insect used to demonstrate biological pest control with parasitoid wasps in the early 1900s.