I have Pantry moths

So, the last few days, we've noticed when we open our pantry door a little moth or two will fly out (which I kill when I can). I didn't think too much of it, but they kept coming.

I just looked it up and it turns out my pantry is infested. :cry



This is what it looks like in your food (I haven't seen any in mine yet):



uke

Has anyone ever had this?



I am cleaning my pantry out right now and will be going to get moth traps as well.

Ugh!

 

I've been looking things up and bay leaves were definitely one of the methods of detering them.

I've gone through all the flour and stuff like that and so far haven't seen any thing in them. I didn't look in the open cereal boxes...just threw all of them out. The bags of flour are going in zip lock bags for a while.

I'm going to vacuum the whole thing out and clean it with most likely vinegar. I'm also about to run to home depot and pick up traps.

I guess on the bright side, my closet is being cleaned out and old stuff purged.

 

You must shop a Walmart. :-D

 

roflmao

Nope.

I am totally blaming it on any organic stuff I've gotten. Damn non-pesticide food!. :-D

There's a party going on alright. I'm just not invited.:cry

Oh, that's just ewwww!!


Okay. I am armed for battle.

I got this:


This:





And picked this up as well to get rid of the darned fruit flies while I'm at it LOL:

 

Thanks Beth.

Yep. I just used that bleach spray on all the shelves I've cleaned so far. I have to empty the other 5 or so now and vacuum and clean those.

I haven't seen any infestation other than the actual moths which is weird. I've checked all my flour. I'm taking some advice I saw online and putting them in zip lock bags for now and keeping them in there to make sure I didn't miss anything.

I didn't even see any webs or anything in the closet, so no idea where the suckers are....maybe some old cereal boxes (which I threw all of that out).

When I took the moth traps out, 2 moths immediately flew out of the closet. LOL. I vacuumed them up.

I'll do the bay leaves as well. katkat mentioned them too.

 

They outnumber me about 100 to 1, but I am going to triumph. LOL

 

Speaking of spiders, I am not afraid of them and have never been. So yesterday I was sitting on the ground at my coffee table in my family room while I was entering in Scottish postal codes into my GPS of all the courses we are playing just so I have it in there and don't have to worry about it while there.

I have a glass top table and I see this little spider go crawling under the glass length wise right under where I'm working. I don't pay any attention to it and let it go.

About 5 minutes later, I feel this little tiny pain on my leg.

The freaking thing bit me!! It crawled onto the ground, under my leg and bit my leg. I smashed it. I have never had that happen before. :mad

 

roflmao I can just imagine this.

OMG You're brave, I see one...I run.... LOL

Hope you get the pantry moths gone!