red flour beetle

American  

noun

1. a reddish-brown flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, that feeds on stored grain, dried fruit, etc.

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red flour beetle

Recently, researchers from Okayama University, Japan, investigated how pheromones, important chemical signals that affect foraging and reproduction, might influence death-feigning behavior in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2023

He and his colleagues tested this idea in the red flour beetle, a 3-millimeter-long insect pest found in flour and grains and sometimes used in laboratory studies.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 22, 2011