Drugstore Beetle

Found worldwide in indoor pantries, kitchens, and warehouses; lives in stored food products and pharmaceutical goods.

Polyphagous; feeds on a wide array of dried plant products including spices, bread, flour, tea, and even non-food items like leather, books, and hair.

They are active flyers and are attracted to light. They deposit eggs in food sources; larvae are C-shaped and tunnel through the food product until pupation.

Primarily a household pest that causes economic loss by contaminating food stores. They do not bite humans or pets, but infested products must be discarded to prevent the spread of the population.