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Meal Moth
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Meal Moth 

(Pyralis farinalis), a moth of the family Pyralididae, a dangerous pest of grain, seed, food products, and forage. The wingspread is up to 30 mm. The anterior wings are lilacbrown at their base and tip and have a wide, ash-yellow stripe running along the middle; the posterior wings are dark gray, with sinuate lines



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Prevention and Control of Meal Moths Sanitation is the primary method for avoiding problems with stored product pests with good practices.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shoppers are more likely to react to rodents in a grocery store than to cockroaches, store-product pests like meal moths and beetles, or flies, the poll reveals, with 70% of shoppers saying they would complain to store management if they saw a rodent, while half would high-tail it out of there without their groceries.
Health food shop Nature's Table in Tyndall Street sold sesame seeds containing Indian meal moths and left three dead mice and rodent droppings lying in its warehouse.
 
 
 
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