Red Flour Beetle

Commonly found in pantries, kitchens, and food storage facilities worldwide, especially in stored grain products.

Scavengers that feed on processed grains, flour, cereal, nuts, beans, and dried fruit; they do not feed on whole, undamaged kernels.

They are active flyers and strong crawlers that often hide in cracks and crevices of food containers; females can lay up to 450 eggs which hatch into larvae that live within the food source.

They are serious pests of stored food that can cause allergic reactions and impart a foul odor and taste to food products through glandular secretions, though they do not bite humans or transmit diseases.