Indian Meal Moth Larva

Indoors, especially in kitchens, pantries, and food processing plants where dry stored goods are kept.

Dried foodstuffs including flour, cereal, nuts, seeds, chocolate, dried fruit, and pet food.

Larvae produce silk webbing as they feed, which often clumps food particles together. They are highly mobile and may crawl away from the food source to pupate in crevices or at the wall-ceiling junction.

Primarily a household pest that causes significant economic loss through food contamination. They pose no direct health risk to humans but infested food should be discarded.