ABSTRACT
Pests of stored foods include mites, insects (especially beetles and moths), vertebrates such as rats and mice, and fungi (Koehler 1991). Stored-product insects alone can cause losses of up to 20% or more of foods produced (Heaps 2006, Phillips and Throne 2010). Hagstrum and Subramanyam (2009) noted that more than 1660 insect species in 120 families have been reported associated with stored products, although almost 470 of these insects are natural enemies of the pests.
