| Pest | Name | Commodities | Identification |
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Cigarette Beetle | Tobacco, nuts, herbs, spices, seeds and grain |
3–4 mm, brown, globular, Antennae long |
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Drugstore Beetle | Nuts, herbs and spices, seeds, grain and grain products | 3–4 mm, brown, globular, last three segments of antennae form loose club |
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Spider Beetle | Dried material of animal and vegetable origin |
2–5 mm, long-legged, globular, resemble small spider |
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Cocao Weevil | Cocoa, coffee, dried cassava and yams, maize, groundnuts |
3–5 mm, globular, long legs and antennae, elytra patterned |
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Bamboo Borer | Maize, dried root crops, bamboo, rattan |
3 mm, dark brown, cylindrical in cross-section, head bent downwards |
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Larger Grain Borer | Maize, especially on cob, and dried cassava |
4 mm, black, cylindrical in cross- section |
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Lesser Grain Borer | Cereal grains, especially wheat, barley, rice and sorghum |
3 mm, dark reddish-brown, cylindrical in cross-section |
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Ham Beetle | copra, oilseeds, products of animal origin |
5 mm, all or part metallic blue-green, flattened parallel-sided |
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Bean Weevil | Beans, commodity in storage and prior to harvest | 3–4 mm, globular, long legs and antennae |
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Bruchid Beetle | Ripening lentils, broad bean, mung beans, grams and cowpeas | 4–6 mm, globular with long legs and antennae, elytra patterned |
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Pea Weevil | Ripening peas, emerges from dried seed | 6–7 mm, globular with long legs and long antennae, elytra patterned |
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Cowpea Weevil | Beans, commodity in storage and prior to harvest | 3–4 mm, globular with long legs and antennae, elytra patterned |
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Groundnut Bruchid | Peanuts, groundnuts and dried tamarind | 7 mm, globular with long legs and antennae, elytra light brown |
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Mexican Bean Weevil | Beans in storage and prior to harvest, cowpeas and mung beans |
3–4 mm, globular with long legs and antennae, elytra patterned |
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Grain Weevil | Cereal grains | 3–4 mm, dark brown, oval, long legs, front of head with long snout |
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Rice Weevil | Cereal grains and solid cereal prod- ucts |
3–4 mm, dark brown to black, elytra each with two dull orange spots |
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Variegated Carpet Beetles | Woolen goods, skins and hides, also residues and nests |
2–3 mm, oval, covered in multi- coloured scales |
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Australian Carpet Beetle | Woolen goods, skins and hides |
2.2–2.5 mm, oval, mid to dark brown |
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Black Carpet Beetle | Woolen goods, skins and hides | 3–5 mm, oval, distinctive pale band across elytra; |
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Black Larder Beetle | dried fish, copra, oilseeds, hides and skins |
5–10 mm, oval, dark brown to black with sparse light hairs |
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Larder Beetle | Dried fish, copra, hides and skins | 5–10 mm, oval, with pale band across top half of elytra |
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Hide Beetle | Dried fish, copra, oilseeds, hides and skins |
5–10 mm, oval, dark brown to black, underside of abdomen white |
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Larger Cabinet Beetle | Oilseeds, processed foods, grain and grain products | 2–3.5 mm, oval, hairy, elytra mottled, eyes with notch in the inner margin |
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Khapra Beetle | Oilseeds, processed foods, grain and grain products | 2–3 mm, oval, hairy, elytra unmarked or light markings |
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Warehouse Beetle | Oilseeds, processed foods, grain and grain products | 2–3.5 mm, oval, hairy, elytra with three transverse wavy pale brown lines |
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Histerid Beetle | Other insekts (beneficial insect!) | 3–7 mm, oval, seed-like, shiny black or dark metallic |
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Flat Grain Beetle | cereal grain and products, other dried material of plant origin, packaged and processed goods |
1.5–2 mm, reddish-brown, highly flattened, parallel-sided |
