Indian Meal Moth (Larva)

Pantries, kitchens, and food processing facilities where dry stored goods are kept.

Dry foodstuffs including grains, flour, cereal, nuts, seeds, dried fruit, and chocolate.

Larvae spin distinctive silken webs as they feed across the surface of a food source; when ready to pupate, they frequently crawl upward on walls and ceilings away from the food source to form a cocoon.

Major household and economic pest that ruins food through contamination with webs, feces, and shed skins; however, they pose no direct health risk or physical danger to humans.