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A storage pest is an insect or other animal that damages or destroys stored food or other stored valuable organic matter.[1] Insects are a large proportion of storage pests with each type of crop having specific insects that gravitate towards them such as the genus Tribolium that consists of insects such as Tribolium castaneum (red flour beetle) or Tribolium confusum (confused flour beetle) which damage flour crops primarily.[2][3]
- ^ Manual on the Prevention of Post-harvest Grain Losses (GTZ)
- ^ Pai, A. (January 2010). "Tribolium". Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. pp. 446–452. doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-045337-8.00030-9. ISBN 9780080453378.
- ^ "Insect pests of stored grain". www.agric.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-04-18.