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Stored Product Insects are a commercially
significant pest group which includes:
All of these are responsible for extensive economic loss. |
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Image Copyright - Aventis
Environmental Science 1964. Reproduced with kind permission of Aventis Environmental
Science. |
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Class: |
Insecta |
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Order: |
Coleoptera * |
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Family: |
Various |
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* By far, the vast majority of
crawling Stored Product Insect pests are from the order Coleoptera. |
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Most crawling pests of stored commodities are of
order Coleoptera. Most are capable of laying several hundreds of eggs in their
lifetime, and of living for over a year. Under good conditions, and when inhabiting
a stored food commodity, this group of pests is capable of multiplying rapidly, and
causing severe financial loss through commodity spoilage. |
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The Control of Stored product insects must be
directly related to their biology, behaviour and the particular environment in question.
Control of this significant group of pests will be dealt with on an individual
species basis. As a general rule however, good standards of hygiene, harbourage
denial, and the quarantine of inbound food commodities are all applicable. |
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