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flour beetle
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Noun1.flour beetleflour beetle - an insect that infests flour and stored grains
flour weevil
darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
genus Tribolium, Tribolium - flour beetles
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To study evolutionary aspects of such behavior, he and his colleagues switched to red flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum).
Why play dead? Rethinking what used to be obvious by Milius, Susan / Science News
This includes the flour beetles, weevils and other pests that are milled along with our grain; and a surprising number of insects that wind up in processed items like apple cider and applesauce.
CRAWLING CUISINE by SHINDLER, MERRILL / Los Angeles Business Journal
Then, they put two of each kind of chemically armored box, two untreated cardboard cartons, and hundreds of red flour beetles in a large container.
Boxes coated with citronella repel insects by Science News
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