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Meal worm

meal worm

The larva of beetles of the genus tenebrio; both larvae and adults are important pests, destroying flour, meal, and other cereal products; they are also intermediate hosts of nematodes of the genus gongylonema, and of various tapeworms of the genus hymenolepis.


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