I probably should post pictures here, but .. I am so exhausted AND I don't feel like taking pictures of (cough) baby moths.
The good news is my extreme measures have proved prudent. I had put nearly everything we owned (that was in the pantry) in ziplock bags, of which I now own roughly one million. Now a week later as I check the bags, I find that up to 1/3 of them have "one moth" in them. And the bag of rice actually had a lot of (cough) toddler moths.
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The good news is my extreme measures have proved prudent. I had put nearly everything we owned (that was in the pantry) in ziplock bags, of which I now own roughly one million. Now a week later as I check the bags, I find that up to 1/3 of them have "one moth" in them. And the bag of rice actually had a lot of (cough) toddler moths.
Unfortunately, we have kept seeing a few moths (about one a day) in the same pantry still. So I went through and checked everything as best I could and placed a few remaining items in ziplock bags, as well. I also taped over the openings in our wheat grinder which was in the pantry.
Anyway, in all this tidying and moving a few things around, I found a couple more larvae (eewww). But I didn't freak out this time. In fact, I haven't freaked out every time I've seen a moth in the pantry the last week. I just kill it, wonder where they're living, and go about my day.
So it's fascinating to me to see just which boxes they've gone into (all our boxed foods, even if they are sealed in bags on the inside of the box are in ziplock bags). So far we've found bugs in spaghetti noodles, lasagna noodles (what kind of a moth eats lasagna? I thought those hard macaroni products would be worthless to them). We've seen them in rice (not that surprising). I haven't seen any in our wheat nor corn flour. This is surprising to me, but the corn flour was pretty new, so maybe they didn't have time to get in there. We haven't seen anything in our breakfast cereals.
I wonder which product they came in, since they probably came in some food product I purchased...
Anyway, it's all out war - and I'm enjoying watching the casualties. I don't mind bugs if a ziplock bag separates me from them. And my curiosity is peaked as I watch what emerges in the next week (which hopefully will be not much).
Thank heaven for plastic.
May all your trials be as non-life-debilitating as my own.
Have a good week ;)
- H.O.
Yikes.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're winning the war.
Are you finding mostly larvae in the food...or grown moths?
Basically just seen larvae in two items (organic cereal that had been in the pantry, open, for months - and a bag of rice). Also some random ones crawling around the pantry (eeww). We haven't seen as many moths - but it's the moths that clued us in that we had visitors. =-0
ReplyDeleteYou know what's funny? I now associate the smell of "Mr. Clean" with "moths." I think I used that cleaner when I cleaned an infestation my parents had when I was a teenager at home. And using it again now, I think I've made that association in my head.. weird.
and I have allergies this morning. I have no idea why. hope it's allergies.. pretty sure it is.
Just eat em...you're too thin...could use the extra protein ;)
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about that.. ☺
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