Tineidae

12.015 Corn Moth Nemapogon granella (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notable B

Similar species:

Forewing: 4.5 to 7.5mm

Habitats: Houses, foodstore warehouses and many other sites where food is available

Habits: Possibly continuously brooded indoors.

Foodplant: The larva feeds in dried stored food products such as grain and stored vegetables, stored wine corks in cellars, in bracket fungi such as Birch Polypore Fomitopsis betulina or Turkeytail Trametes versicolor and also Dry-rot fungus Serpula lacrymans and decaying wood.