Confused Flour Beetle

Beetles have been recorded attacking grains and grain products, peas, beans, shelled nuts, dried fruits, spices, milk chocolate, drugs, snuff, cayenne pepper, and berbarium, insect and other museum specimens. They have been found to infest poisoned baits. They are attracted to light even though they apparently do not fly. Although humans are not injured by it, confused flour beetles do impart a disagreeable odor and taste to the flour they infest.

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