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The house fly is found all over the world where humans live and so is the most widely distributed insect. [1]This is a list of common household pests – undesired animals that have a history of living, invading, causing damage, eating human foods, acting as disease vectors or causing other harms in human habitation.
Phereoeca uterella, known by the vernacular names plaster bagworm [a] and household casebearer [b], is a moth species in family Tineidae. [3] [1] It occurs in tropical climates, where it is common in houses, and is presumed native to the Neotropical realm. [4]
Tineola bisselliella, known as the common clothes moth, webbing clothes moth, or simply clothing moth, is a species of fungus moth (family Tineidae, subfamily Tineinae).It is the type species of its genus Tineola and was first described by the Swedish entomologist Arvid David Hummel in 1823.
Hofmannophila is a genus of moths in the concealer moth family Oecophoridae. It is monotypic, with the single species Hofmannophila pseudospretella, the brown house moth, which appears to be closely related to species of the genus Borkhausenia. [1]
Parts of the U.S. are experiencing a significant spongy moth invasion this year. Here's how to tell if you have them in your yard and how to deal with them.
Basic moth identification features. While the butterflies form a monophyletic group, the moths, comprising the rest of the Lepidoptera, do not. Many attempts have been made to group the superfamilies of the Lepidoptera into natural groups, most of which fail because one of the two groups is not monophyletic: Microlepidoptera and Macrolepidoptera, Heterocera and Rhopalocera, Jugatae and ...
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The Indianmeal moth (Plodia interpunctella), also spelled Indian meal moth and Indian-meal moth, is a pyraloid moth of the family Pyralidae. Alternative common names are hanger-downers , weevil moth , pantry moth , flour moth or grain moth .