Moths Mediterranean flour

Bell, C.H. and Savvidou, N. 1999. The toxicity of Vikane (sulfuryl flouride) to age groups of eggs of the Mediterranean flour moth Ephestia kuehnielld). J. Stored Prod. Res. 35, 233-247. 

Other changes are due to the presence of mites and of the larvae of insects, especially those of the yellow mead-worm (Tenebrio molitor) and the Mediterranean flour-moth (Ephestia Kuhniella). Larvae of insects are detectable by the naked eye. Mites may eaisily be observed by pressing a spoonful of flour on a sheet of paper with a transparent sheet of glass any mites present soon begin to move and render the surface of the flour in contact with the glass streaked with numerous irregular furrows. 

Trematerra, P. (1994) The use of sex pheromones to control Ephestia kuehniella Zeller (Mediterranean flour moth) in flour mills by mass trapping and attracticide (lure and kill) methods. In Stored Product Protection. Proceedings of the 6th International Working Conference on Stored Product Protection, Canberra, Australia, Ilighley, E., Wright, E.J., Banks, H.J. and Champ, B.R. (eds), pp. 375-382. CAB International, Wallingford, UK. 

Although the discovery of the requirement for EFA as a dietary constituent was first made on the rat, and considerable information has been obtained by the study of this species, the necessity of these acids has been found to be very widespread. Fraenkel and Blewett (1946) demonstrated that the EFA are required by certain insects, such as the Mediterranean flour moth (Ephestia kUhniella), the tobacco moth (E. eiUdla), the fig moth (E. cautella), and the Indian-meal moth Phdia interpunctella (Lep.)). 

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