Flour moth

Ephestia kuehniella

The flour moth mainly attacks flour and milled products. It also attacks rice, maize, millet, buckwheat, dough and bakery products, soy flour, nuts, dried fruit, dried mushrooms and chocolate seeds. They are found all over the world and their adaptability means that they can survive and reproduce even in very cramped conditions, e.g. in sealed flour bags. This makes them not only a nasty pest in the processing industry, but also in private households. Flour moths can be recognised by the typical webs they weave around their food source. Approx. 10 – 14 mm long, forewings blue-grey to reddish-grey, wingspan 22 mm. Lays approx. 200 eggs between grains. Caterpillars greenish to reddish white, up to 20 mm long