The flour beetle is a small bug with a dark brown or black body. Adult specimens have a characteristic shiny shell and wings ...

Miyatake and his colleagues used red flour beetles, each measuring less than 5 millimeters long, to study their reactions to different predators. Red flour beetles, which can damage stored grain ...

It's estimated that 20% of the developing world's stockpiles of flour and grain are infested and spoiled each year by red flour beetles and pests like them, along with 9% of stocks in the rest of ...

Mating behavior and mating position were studied for Anthrenus flavipes LeConte, furniture carpet beetle; Trogoderma glabrum (Herbst); Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), red flour beetle; T. confusum ...

SOCORRO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — In efforts to prevent another red flour beetle infestation, the City of Socorro and El Paso County are offering free pecan shell disposal services until April 30.

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Why are there deformities in male hybrid flour beetles while female hybrids are spared? Haldane’s rule: the male beetles have the heteromorphic sex chromosomes. But what are the genetic and ...

A recent study provides evidence that some results of behavioral experiments with insects cannot be fully reproduced. So far, possible reproducibility problems have been little discussed in this ...