Drugstore Beetle

Found worldwide in human structures where dried foods, herbs, and prescription drugs are stored.

Larvae consume a wide variety of dried plant and animal products, including bread, flour, spices, and even leather and books.

Adults are capable of flight and are attracted to light; the larvae do most of the feeding damage during their development cycle.

A major economic pest of stored products and historical museum collections; they pose no direct physical risk to humans but can contaminate food supplies.