Cigarette Drug Store Beetles
Cigarette Drugstore Beetles
Color:
yellowish- to reddish-brown, oval-shapedSize: a tiny 1/10-inch long
Feeding & Habits:feed on many drugs in the pharmacy, such as laxative teas and even strychnine. They also infest almonds, peanuts, paprika, red pepper, alfalfa meal, cornmeal, flour, milo, wheat, wheat bran, wheat germ, dry dog and cat food, bread, birdseed, beans, coffee beans, fish meal, spaghetti, instant chocolate, powdered milk, books, manuscripts, dried flowers, certain fillers and fabric coverings of furniture, leather, museum specimens, and other foodstuffs.
Additional Information: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2083.html.
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