{"id":338,"date":"2010-10-06T15:58:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/homeowner-ipm\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:42:27","slug":"frequent-indian-meal-moths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/frequent-specimens\/frequent-indian-meal-moths\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Meal Moths"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"375\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/IndianMealMoth1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-375 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/IndianMealMoth1-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Indian Meal Moths\" width=\"263\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/IndianMealMoth1-263x300.jpg 263w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/IndianMealMoth1-105x120.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/IndianMealMoth1-317x361.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/home-and-garden-ipm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2010\/10\/IndianMealMoth1.jpg 337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian Meal Moth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong>Indian Meal Moth<\/strong>,\u00a0(<em>Plodia interpunctella<\/em>) is a very common kitchen and pantry pest of a great many sorts of dried foodstuffs, including stored grains, cereals, breads, pasta, rice, flour, spices, dried fruits and nuts, and even sometimes&#8211;reportedly&#8211;chocolate, cocoa beans, and cookies.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, it is commonly associated with bird seed.\u00a0 The pest got its name in the 1800s, when cornmeal was referred to as &#8220;Indian meal.&#8221;\u00a0 It is sometimes spelled with the first two words joined together (Indianmeal Moth), and it has several other common names: <strong>North American High-flyer<\/strong>, <strong>Weevil Moth<\/strong>, <strong>Pantry Moth<\/strong>, <strong>Flour Moth<\/strong> or <strong>Grain Moth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The larvae of this small moth spin silken threads as they crawl around, causing the infested food to look as though it has been webbed together. Newly-hatched larvae are very small, so are difficult to see.\u00a0 They are about \u00bd&#8221; in length when fully mature, and range in color anywhere from yellow, to green, to pink, but with a brownish head.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Additional Information: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ento.psu.edu\/extension\/factsheets\/indian_meal_moth.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Indian Meal Moth<\/strong><\/a> (Penn State)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Meal Moth,\u00a0(Plodia interpunctella) is a very common kitchen and pantry pest of a great many sorts of dried foodstuffs, including stored grains, cereals, breads, pasta, rice, flour, spices, dried fruits and nuts, and even sometimes&#8211;reportedly&#8211;chocolate, cocoa beans, and cookies.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, it is commonly associated with bird seed.\u00a0 The pest got its name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"parent":305,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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