Survey of Stored-Food Insects and other Alaskan Insect Pests

The cosmopolitan pantry pests, in their perambulations around the world, have not missed Alaska, but specific reports of their occurrence are relatively scarce. Chamberlin (1949) mentioned 11 species and, without giving distributional data, noted that 3 were common: Mediterranean flour moth, a spider beetle, and the saw-tooth grain beetle. List 1 is a compilation of all known records of stored-food insects in Alaska.