8 Farmers’ Bulletin 1156. 
Fre. 5.—Cross section of one of the kernels of corn in figure 3, 
enlarged to show the cavity made by the larva of the Angou- 
mois grain moth, the silken chamber formed by the larva, 
before transforming to the pupa. The large brown or blackish 
appearing object is the pupa from which the moth will emerge 
and crawl along the silken channel in escaping from the seed. 
dling or by bean weevil attack. Rice handled under commercial 
conditions is very seldom affected. 
LOSSES. 
It is difficult to estimate the amount of loss caused grain growers, 
dealers, and millers by the Angoumois grain moth. Throughout 
the extreme South it is rated as a pest second only to the rice or 
“black” weevil.? 
Throughout the wheat belt of Southeastern Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, Delaware, and Virginia, it is the worst pest of -ripening 
wheat and wheat in storage. Many crops have suffered a loss of 10 
2 Calandra oryza L. 
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