Indian meal moth

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Indian meal moth (plural Indian meal moths)

  1. Plodia interpunctella, a species of moth that feeds on dried foodstuffs and feedstuffs, especially meal, flour, nuts, and fruit.
    Synonyms: pantry moth, mealworm moth, weevil moth
    Hypernyms: mealmoth, meal moth, flour moth (all sometimes elliptically synonymous or sometimes narrowly differentiated) < moth < insect < arthropod < invertebrate < animal < creature, critter

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