meal moth

noun

variants or meal snout moth

: any of several small widely distributed moths (as the Indian meal moth or the Mediterranean flour moth) having larvae that feed in milled and stored grain products

especially : a small golden brown moth (Pyralis farinalis) with dark and whitish markings

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