Larder Beetle

Dermestes lardarius

General Status Rank: 
Alien
Common Name: 
Larder Beetle
Scientific Name: 
Dermestes lardarius
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Beetle
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Insecta
Order: 
Coleoptera
Family: 
Dermestidae
General Biology

Economic/Human Considerations

Moderate to significant economic importance as pest of homes, dried meats and fish, cheese, poultry houses, beehives. Feeds on almost any animal substance either dry or in the process of decomposition; has often been recorded as predator on egg masses of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.) (Schaefer and Beal 1996).
References: 
A273
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Alien
Status Rank Description: 
mentionned in NT in Bousquet 1991j: Bousquet, Y. 1991j. Family Dermestidae: dermestid beetles. In Checklist of beetles of Canada and Alaska. (Y. Bousquet ed.). Publication 1861/E, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Draft ranks by Chandra Venables (2012) under contract for northern beetles assessment with Environment Canada (National General Status Assessment).
Last Updated: 
October 16, 2014

References

Economic Status

  • Beal, RS. (2003) Annotated Checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae with Revised Key to the Genera.. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 57(4): 391-401. - A273 Return