When you open up your bag of flour and you discover something alive, don't panic. It happens to everyone, even the cleanest ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

UNPARASITIZED confused flour beetles were fed cast proglottids of R. cesticillus, and were then maintained on whole wheat flour, without being re-infected.

Alias: Confused flour beetle. Adults are reddish brown and are about 1/7 of an inch long. They are often found in large numbers in grain elevators, mills, groceries and other places where food ...

You’re gathering your ingredients to whip up a batch of pancakes or to roll out your favorite pie crust when you suddenly notice that something appears to be crawling around in the flour canister.

PLANT breeders have no objective means of determining feeding quality of new cereal lines early in a breeding programme. A laboratory test that is simple, inexpensive, and requires only a few grams of ...