galleria mellonella

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   moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs

   Synonymsbee mothwax moth

   Broaderpyralid

   Part ofGalleria

Questions about galleria mellonella

What does galleria mellonella mean?

galleria mellonella means "moth whose larvae live in and feed on bee honeycombs".

What is another word for galleria mellonella?

Close synonyms include bee moth, wax moth. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is galleria mellonella a common word?

galleria mellonella is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.