will be able to find out the natural habitats and the nature of the bug. BACKGROUND The common name for these beetles is the Red Rust Flour Beetle but if you want the scientific name you will find, Tribolium Castaneum. It belongs to the family, Tenebrionidae. The adult size beetle is about three to four millimetres and has an elongated body that is more or less parallel shaped. It is red brown or a dark brown in colour, this beetle is recognised because of the antennas that are inserted under the sides
The confused flour beetle, Tribolium Confusum is an organism that is approximately 4.35mm in body length and is made up of three sections, the prognathous head, rounded abdomen and a straight sided thorax, which are flat, shiny, elongated and rigid, reddish brown (Stuart M Bennett 2003). This beetle consists of two segmented antennas at the front of its body along with two small dark colored notched eyes, separated by more than three eye diameters, which allow the beetle to identify small disturbances