flour beetle in English
noun
1
a small brown darkling beetle that is a widespread pest of flour and other cereal products.
In either case, 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.
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1. Very much the same story as I conjectured for Nosema in the flour beetle and for the fluke in the snail.