Common name: Tropical warehouse moth
Scientific name: Ephestia (cadra) cautella
Order: Lepidoptera
Affects: Grain, ground grain (meal), cocoa, nuts, walnuts…
Main season: All year round
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The adult’s forewings are a greyish-brown with dark markings and stripes on the outer middle part. The hindwings are wide, transparent, with clearly visible veining and with the upper veining also running along the whole of the wing. The larvae are a whitish colour with clearly visible black spots on the body.
The female oviposits up to 300 eggs on the products she attacks or lets them fall in between the spaces in the fibres of the containers. The larva moves about freely between the stored products, contaminating them with its silk threads and excrement. During maturity, the larva enters into a wandering phase, dragging a thin thread of silk that covers the surface of the grains or its containers. With relative temperature conditions and humidity between 28⁰C and 70% they complete their development in 25 days. The adults have short lives and live approximately 14 days or less.
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Ephestia (cadra) cautella adult
It damages grains, cereal flours, corn, oilseed cakes and flour, palm oil seeds, cocoa, concentrated feed for livestock, nuts and walnuts. It is considered to be a secondary pest of healthy wholegrain cereals, as it only grows if the grains have been damaged by other insects or there is a high percentage of broken grains with impurities. The larvae have a preference for bacteria. For cereal flour and other ground products, it is a primary pest because of the damage it causes and because of the contamination of its silk threads and excrement.
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Ephestia (cadra) cautella larvae inside peanuts
1 to 3 traps should be used for every room in the warehouse and they must also be placed at least 5 metres apart from each other. The traps must remain active all year round in warehouses with products.
The males of this species are captured for the purpose of reducing mating, so that the unfertilised females will lay unviable eggs. In this way, the pest population is reduced.
For mass trapping the number is increased to 4 traps for every 100m² of warehouse, separated at least 5 metres apart.
The following traps and pheromone can be used: ECONEX POLILLERO, ECONEX FOLDING WHITE TRIANGULAR without sheets or ECONEX DISPOSABLE WHITE TRIANGULAR and pheromone diffuser ECONEX EPHESTIA (CADRA) CAUTELLA with 40 days’ duration.
The trap ECONEX FOLDING WHITE TRIANGULAR without sheets is activated by placing an ECONEX PLASTIC SHEET FOR TRIANGULAR TRAP 1 UNIT at the base. The sheet is impregnated with a pressure-sensitive adhesive, without solvents, in which the insects remain trapped.
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Pheromone diffuser ECONEX EPHESTIA CAUTELLA
and packaging of the product.
Code: UIPHOVA013
ECONEX FOLDING WHITE TRIANGULAR WITHOUT SHEETS
Code: UIPFETA273
OMDF register number (Ministry of Agriculture of Spain): 064/2014
ECONEX PLASTIC SHEET FOR TRIANGULAR TRAP 1 UNIT
Code: UIPFETA248
OMDF register number (Ministry of Agriculture of Spain): 048/2024
ECONEX POLILLERO
Code: UIPFETA001
OMDF register number (Ministry of Agriculture of Spain): 123/2015
ECONEX DISPOSABLE WHITE TRIANGULAR
Code: UIPFETA242
OMDF register number (Ministry of Agriculture of Spain): 094/2024
The diffusers must be stored in their original Packaging and in the refrigerator at 4ºC; or in the freezer at -18ºC, in which case they will last for 2 and 4 years respectively.
ECONEX EPHESTIA CAUTELLA
Corrugated cardboard box of 400 units (20 packs of 20 units)
Box size: 0,32 x 0,24 x 0,22 m (length x width x height).
Box weight: 1,5 kg
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Packaging with 20 units.
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Box of 400 units.
(20 packs x 20 units)
ECONEX FOLDING WHITE TRIANGULAR WITHOUT SHEETS
Corrugated cardboard box of 150 units
Box size: 0,60 x 0,40 x 0,35 m (length x width x height)
Box weight: 10,60 kg
No. of boxes per pallet: 20
Pallet size: 1,20 x 0,80 x 1,95 m (length x width x height)
Pallet weight: 222 kg
Box of 150 units.
ECONEX SHEET FOR TRIANGULAR 1 UNIT PACK
Corrugated cardboard box of 500 units
Box size: 0,42 x 0,29 x 0,21 m (length x width x height)
Box weight: 10,75 kg
No. of boxes per pallet: 50
Pallet size: 1,10 x 1,00 x 1,25 m (length x width x height)
Pallet weight: 545 kg
Box of 500 units.
ECONEX POLILLERO
Corrugated cardboard box of 35 units
Box size: 0,40 x 0,60 x 0,35 m (length x width x height)
Box weight: 9,80 kg
No. of boxes per pallet: 20
Pallet size: 1,20 x 0,80 x 1,95 m (length x width x height)
Pallet weight: 206 kg
Box of 35 units.
ECONEX DISPOSABLE WHITE TRIANGULAR
Corrugated cardboard box of 250 units
Box size: 0,42 x 0,29 x 0,21 m (length x width x height)
Box weight: 13,10 kg
No. of boxes per pallet: 50
Pallet size: 1,10 x 1,00 x 1,25 m (length x width x height)
Pallet weight: 665 kg
Box of 250 units.
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