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The meal snout moth may require only eight weeks to pass through 
the egg, larva, and pupa stages. 
lic. 27.—The Indian meal moth: Tip of ear of corn showing, a, three moths with their | 
characteristic light and dark markings, and b, two well-grown larve. The adult moth 
is distinguished from all other grain-infesting moths by having the outer two-thirds 
of its wings brownish and the inner third whitish gray. It has a wing spread of about 
three-fourths of an inch. 
The meal snout moth is primarily a pest of seeds that are held 
for some time in cool and damp localities. Outbreaks that have 
come to the attention of the authors have always been centered in 
