Mediterranean flour moth

Mediterranean flour moth

noun
a small cosmopolitan moth, Anagasta kuehniella, whose larvae damage stored foodstuffs, as grain and flour.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism
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mediterranean flour moth

noun
small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour 
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