Mediterranean Flour Moth (Noun)
Meaning
Small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The mediterranean flour moth is known for contaminating grains with its caterpillars' droppings and webs, rendering them unfit for human consumption.
- Flour contamination caused by the mediterranean flour moth larvae results in loss of stored grain worldwide.
- Researchers conducted an experiment on controlling mediterranean flour moths by freezing grains and using hermetic storage to suppress larval development.
- Medication may not always work for some food manufacturers when mediterranean flour moths attack food stored inside, indicating possible weak areas within supply chain and control practices.
- Several months later the house still smells musty because we neglected an early attack of a mediterranean flour moth and forgot all flour remains untouched from cooking when stored grains containing wheat based bread developed that first stage fungus early as March.scalablytyped