They eat both fresh and decaying vegetation, including vegetable produce, and several are commercially important pests of flour and other cereal products.

Other uses include spray application in horticulture for protecting plants and vegetable produce from decay and the spread of bacterial disease.

This processing plant relied heavily on fruit and vegetables produced locally.

Sufferers tend to stay indoors away from plants and not eat vegetables produced by plants.

Vegetables produced here are supplied countrywide.