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Stored-Grain Insects

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Stored-Grain Insects / Prepared by the Science and Education Administration United States Department of Agriculture. -
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Washington : US Department of Agriculture, 1980. -
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56 str. : ilustr. ; 20 cm. -
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Engleski
Digitalizirana knjiga - Izvornik u knjižnici POINT d.o.o. Varaždin. (nije javno dostupno).

ABSTRACT

Five primary pests cause most of the insect damage to grain in storage and shipment.
These are the granary weevil, the rice weevil, the maize weevil, the lesser grain borer or Australian wheat weevil, and the Angoumois grain moth.
Other insect species or groups of species described in this handbook can cause great damage to grain if storage conditions are unusually favorable for their increase.
Yet, if grain in the unbroken kernel remains unaffected by the five primary pests, it is not likely that any other insect will damage it
appreciably in commercial storage or shipment, except possibly the khapra beetle, which does not occur at present in the United
States.
The secondary pests are mostly surface feeders in both the adult and larval stages.
Some of them may eat into kernels of grain and lie hidden there, but most of them feed on grain dust or broken surfaces of kernels exposed by either mechanical injury to the grain in handling or by the feeding of the five primary grain pests with which they are usually associated.
Therefore, the secondary pests can largely be removed by grain-cleaning operations.
Except for the lesser grain borer, the larvae or grubs of the primary insect pests are not ordinarily capable of a free existence outside the kernel.
They live entirely within the kernel, where they feed unseen and usually unsuspected.
They cannot be removed by ordinary cleaning machinery and must be controlled by other means.
Key words: grain weevils, grain moths, beetles, mealworms, biology, life history, prevention, control.

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