Drugstore Beetle

Natural Habitat

Worldwide in human dwellings, pantries, and food processing facilities.

Diet & Feeding

Broad range of dried plant materials including flour, bread, spices, pharmaceutical drugs, and non-food items like leather and hair.

Behavior Patterns

Active flyers that are attracted to light; females lay up to 75 eggs at a time in food sources, followed by a larval period of several months.

Risks & Benefits

Significant pantry pest that contaminates stored goods; harmless to humans and pets in terms of biting or disease, but remains a major economic nuisance.

Identified on: 6/16/2026