Indian meal moth (larva/caterpillar stage)

Pantry areas, food storage facilities, and warehouses where dried food is kept.

Feeds on dried food products such as grains, cereals, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, chocolate, and pet food.

Larvae produce characteristic silken webbing while feeding; they often leave the food source when fully grown to spin cocoons in cracks or wall-ceiling junctions.

Major household pest that contaminates food with webbing and frass; no direct health risk to humans, but causes economic loss through food spoilage.