Khapra Beetle
Trogoderma granarium
The adult is a small oval beetle found around stored cereals, flour residues, sacks, and warehouse cracks. It feeds little or not at all compared with the larva, spending its short adult life seeking mates and egg-laying sites near dry food. Its hardened wing covers protect the body, and in many populations the adults are poor fliers or effectively flightless despite having beetle wing covers.
- Type
- Shell
- Conservation status
- NE
Growth chain
- Khapra Beetle Larva
- ?
- Khapra Beetle