What Are Indian Meal Moths?
Indian meal moths are a common type of pantry or stored product pest that live and invade food sources across the world. Adult Indian meal moths grow to about 5/8th of an inch from wingtip to wingtip. They have distinct looking wings that help to identify them, which have a dark band that separates their front wing from their back wing. The front portion of the wing is yellowish-gray in color, while the back half of the wing is bronze, copper, or dark gray in color.
Their worm-like larvae grow to be about 1/2 an inch in length. Their bodies can be off-white, brown, greenish, or pinkish in color. Their head and thorax is a yellowish-brown color. It's during the larval stage that Indian meal moths feed on pantry items and cause the most damage and contamination.
