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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologists Patrick Porter and Robert Puckett, address some of the most frequently asked questions about the red flour beetle, commonly found in grain products ...

A resident of Socorro, Texas, said she's dealing with an infestation of bugs in her apartment, leaving her in tears — and an apparent rash on her body. "I'm up multiple times a night because I feel ...

What is the red flour beetle? The red flour beetle is a small insect that is extremely common in grain products, lentils, rice, shelled nuts, beans, dried fruit and chiles, dried pet food, and milk ...

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – On Monday, Oct. 28, the City of Socorro along with other agencies, removed the pecan shells believed to be the primary food source for the red flour beetle infestation. The ...

Beetles are champions at surviving in extremely dry environments. In part, this property is due to their ability to suck water from the air with their rear ends. A new University of Copenhagen study ...

Two effects of pupal irradiation were studied in detail in the flour beetle, Tribolium confusum. Developmental wing abnormalities were found to be temperature-sensitive, reaching a minimum at 28°C.

Scientists have sequenced the genome from the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Tribolium is the first beetle and the first insect pest, whose genome has been sequenced. This research may have a ...

Despite that resistance frequency is assumed to decline when selective pressure is relaxed, the stability of resistance frequency has been observed in some insects in the absence of insecticide. In ...

In red flour beetle society, being a female in a male world is actually advantageous. Unlike humans, where this situation traditionally meant being at a disadvantage, female flour beetles in ...

Tracking the red flour beetle in grain storage facilities could become easier, thanks to research to identify a key gene in this grain-feeding pest. Tracking the red flour beetle in grain storage ...

I HAVE observed that if small masses of coarsely sifted whole-wheat flour (64 gm. in a 150 c.c. beaker) are seeded with more than 800 eggs of the flour beetle Tribolium confusum Duv., and maintained ...