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flour beetle

NOUN
  1. an insect that infests flour and stored grains

How To Use flour beetle In A Sentence

  • With their voracious appetite for stored cereals and nuts, the red flour beetle and its kin cause millions of dollars of damage annually.
  • Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail.
  • The drawings help explain what to do. 11 Breeding flour beetles Flour beetles live in and feed on stored flour.
  • Damage to stored grain by the lesser grain borer, rice weevil, red flour beetle, and rusty grain beetle costs the U.S. wheat industry about $500 million annually.
  • In addition, we have been studying the orthologous genes in the red flour beetle, which has relatively unspecialized mandibulate mouthparts.
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