| Indian Meal Moth |
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| Appearance: |
Dirty
white, pink or brown bodies. Wings are burnished copper to purple
colour with a broad grey band near where the wings are attached.
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| Size: |
3/8 to 3/4 inches long with a wingspan of 5/8 of an inch.
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| Food: |
Flour, grain, dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, crackers and dried animal feed.
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| Nest: |
Silken, feces laden mat in contaminated food source or cracks or crevices near by.
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| Life cycle: |
They lay about 400 eggs in about 18 days with about 6 generations per year.
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| Length
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2 months
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| Treatment: |
Find source, intensive cleaning, chemical treatments to cracks and crevices and fumigation. |
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