Red flour beetle (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science

Red flour beetle

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Food security in developing nations is particularly affected by animal species like the grain weevil and red flour beetle which have specialized in surviving in extremely dry environments, granaries included, for thousands of years.

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Kenneth Halberg

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