A to Z of Pests

Stored Product Insects

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You'd be surprised what insects can make a meal out of. All kinds of stored products whet their appetite — from grains and cereals to timber, perishable goods and more. Discover the feeding habits and lifecycles of all the insects below, or learn what damage they can do if left uncontrolled.

Australian Spider Beetle

Strewth! This pests will eat anything.

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Biscuit Beetle

They enjoy a high carbohydrate diet.

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Booklice

Bad news for libraries.

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Broad Horned Flour Beetle

Little white footprints all over the kitchen are a dead giveaway.

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Cheese Mite

Do they like camembert or cheddar?

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Cigarette Beetle

This pest has more than one bad habit.

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Confused Flour Beetle

The pest that can't work it out.

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Copra Beetle

Where do they live?

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Cowpea Beetle

They can eat more than you think.

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Flat Grain Beetle

These fussy eaters can ruin your food.

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Flour Mites

Amazing destructive capacity for their tiny size.

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Four Spotted Bean Weevil

Do they eat other legumes?

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Furniture Beetle

Touch Wood, they don't move into your home.

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Golden Spider Beetle

A spider, a beetle or just plain confused?

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Grain Borer

Their ability to destroy things is anything but boring.

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Grain Weevil

Where could you expect to find these?

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Indian Meal Moth

Not welcome on any menu.

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Khapra Beetle

How are they different from Copra Beetles?

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Larder Beetle

Can you guess what these creatures eat?

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Leather Beetle

Don't let them eat away your goods

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Lesser Grainborer

Lesser Grain Borer

Learn more about the Lesser Grain Borer   

Lesser Mealworm

They make a meal of your building’s insulation.

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Maize Weevil Beetle

What else do they eat?

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Merchant Grain Beetle

How these pests live.

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Mill Moth

Not just your run of the mill pest.

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Rice Weevil

This pest can't get enough of the stuff

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Rust Red Flour Beetle

This colourful pest can give you real problems.

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Saw-Toothed Grain Beetle

Slicing into your profits.

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Tropical Warehouse Moth

No building is too large for this pest, as long as its hot.

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Warehouse Moth

What damage can this pest do?

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Yellow Mealworm Beetle

They’ll make a meal of your property.

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Seasonal Pest

Our featured pest is the House Fly.
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