flour weevil


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Noun1.flour weevil - an insect that infests flour and stored grainsflour weevil - an insect that infests flour and stored grains
flour beetle
darkling beetle, darkling groung beetle, tenebrionid - sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain
genus Tribolium, Tribolium - flour beetles
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The red flour weevil Tribolium castaneum was used at adult stage.
All the flours tested do not have same level of toxicity towards the red flour weevils. ANOVA I shows highly significant difference (F = 33.78***, df = 3:496, p [less than or equal to] 0.001) between the four leguminous flours.
Application of the flour of four leguminous crops for the control of Tenebrionidae Beetle (Tribolium castaneum--Herbst)
(2011) established that the ethanolic and hydroethanolic extracts from castor oil plant seeds impregnated on filter paper repelled adults and larvae of the flour weevil Tribolium castaneum Herbst (Colepotera: Tenebrionidae).
Repellency of hydroethanolic extracts of Ricinus communis (Euphorbiaceae) to Scyphophorus acupunctatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the laboratory

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