Indian Meal Moth

Commonly found in residential pantries, kitchens, grocery stores, and food processing facilities worldwide.

Larvae feed on stored grain products, including cereal, flour, pasta, rice, nuts, dried fruit, seeds, and birdseed.

Adults are nocturnal and attracted to light; they do not feed and live only for about a week to mate and lay eggs. Larvae spin silken webs in food sources and pupate in crevices away from food.

They pose no direct health risk to humans or pets but are a major nuisance pest that causes significant economic loss through food contamination with webbing, feces, and cocoons.