Then, in the early 1980s, Dr . William McGaughey, a Department of Agriculture entomologist in Manhattan, Kan ., discovered Indian meal moths showing high survival rates when Bt was routinely sprayed to control them in grain silos.
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The Meal Moth ( " Pyralis farinalis " ) and the Grease Moth ( " Aglossa pinguinalis " ) are pests of stored food products, in the case of the Grease Moth including fats ( which are also eaten by the adult moths ), and have been inadvertently spread almost world-wide by transport of such goods.
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Anna Levinson has collaborated with national and international research teams like those of Wittko Francke, Christoph Reichmuth, Kenji Mori, Robert M . Silverstein and Konstantin Buchelos investigating the mode of action and employment of pheromone traps for stored product beetles and moths, particularly khapra beetles, hide beetles, tobacco beetles, grain moths, meal moths, flour moths, tobacco moths as well as almond moths.
