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Mill/Warehouse Moth
Biology: The caterpillars of this small moth causes considerable damage to stored food products. It commonly attacks tobacco and cocoa, as well as grains, nuts, dried fruit and many
other stored products. Adults are up to 10mm in length with greyish-brown wings and have dark double bands at the top and base of the wings (although these are frequently rubbed off). Up to 200 eggs are laid and
there is usually only one generation per year, although under ideal conditions the lifecycle can be as brief as 12 weeks.
Control: Controlling this pest requires careful inspection of all stored cereal foods and machinery, discarding the heavily infested material and cleaning away any debris. Where the infestation is extensive; a residual
insecticide can be applied to the cracks and crevices around wall/floor and ceiling/floor junctions. Infestations of this moth in food processing facilities can be controlled by removing and destroying infested products
and by using intensive cleaning and fumigation as required.
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Stored Product Insect Pests Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge
- Chatteris
- Ely
- Huntingdon
- March
- Market Deeping
- Oundle
- Peterborough
- Ramsey
- Soham
- St Neots
- Whittlesey
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Stored Product Insect Pests Essex
- Basildon
- Benfleet
- Bishops Stortford
- Braintree
- Brentwood
- Canvey Island
- Chelmsford
- Clacton
- Colcester
- Great Dunmow
- Halstead
- Harlow
- Harwich
- Leigh on sea
- Maldon
- Rayleigh
- Rochford
- Saffron Walden
- Southend
- Stansted
- Thorpe Bay
- Tiptree
- Walton on Naze
- Westcliff on Sea
- Witham
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Stored Product Insect Pests Norfolk
- Acle
- Aylsham
- Dereham
- Diss
- Downham Market
- Fakenham
- Gorleston
- Great Yarmouth
- Holt
- Hunstanton
- Kings Lynn
- North Walsham
- Norwich
- Sheringham
- Stalham
- Swaffham
- Thetford
- Watton
- Wisbech
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Stored Product Insect Pests Suffolk
- Aldeburgh
- Beccles
- Brandon
- Bungay
- Bury St Edmunds
- Clare
- Eye
- Felixstowe
- Framlingham
- Harleston
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
- Lakenheath
- Lavenham
- Lowestoft
- Mildenhall
- Needham Market
- Newmarket
- Saxmundham
- Southwold
- Stowmarket
- Sudbury
- Wickham Market
- Woodbridge
- Yoxford
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