<p>The Pantry Pest type traps are the Final Solution for grain moths. They work by luring all the males (or females, I can’t remember), thus wiping out the population in one generation – which is not very long for grain moths.</p>
<p>I had a brutal infestation which started (I think) in some dried chili peppers. You are just wasting time wiping shelves or spraying. You’ll never get them all. The sticky phermone traps work and work permanently once the population is goine.</p>
<p>^Wow mapesy, that was quite an experience. I think I will have to do that eventually. My shelves are unfortunately lined and I need to rip them up. </p>
<p>I will do it in winter, easier to kill the worms and moths in the cold when I put the food out in the garage. There are food stuff I cannot/will not throw away, they are too valuable. I can just kill the infestation so that it won’t breed and infect other food.</p>
<p>eta: IDad : I have a ton of those traps and I do trap them. What I found was that if I cannot locate the food source where they breed, the trap cannot get enough of the adults to wipe them out. I had been using these traps for about 4 months now and I just found a ton of them breeding in an expected food source.</p>
<p>“OTH, a little bit of cretin is good for the skin, fat binding, and nails.”</p>
<p>I hope you meant “creatin” :)</p>
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<p>I think he meant chitin.
[chitin</a> - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary](<a href=“http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chitin]chitin”>Chitin Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster)</p>
<p>cretin; 4-8yo. sometimes younger, sometimes older but if older then they are bugs. :)</p>
<p>Humpf. I just got a lecture from the husband saying I am obsessed with getting rid of these worms and moths. He said they are not dirty or harmful like flies. The man said they can easily form a part of our diet. :eek:</p>
<p>He even went as far as saying I passed on my obsession to our son and he wasted too much time rooting out the moths instead of concentrating on his summer course.</p>
<p>I am not speaking to him for now. I am searching for an appropriate response to this outrage.</p>
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<p>A weevil in his dinner. ;)</p>
<p>Oh, munchkin, I can totally relate! There’s just something about seeing those pesky moths flitting around and crawling on your food that makes one obsessed. I think you need to follow Booklady’s advice–it worked for me. ;)</p>
<p>mapesy & Booklady : Lol, I thought of that but that man used to brag how once he found a cockroach, not the small ones: the Palmetto Bug/American cockroach one found in the south in his noodles, threw it out and went right on eating the rest. :eek: :eek:</p>
<p>So I don’t think a little weevil or worm is going to faze him. I don’t have a weevil problem anyway, I have a worm/moth problem. Also, I found from experience unfortunately, the worms blend into their food source quite well. </p>
<p>I will think up something. Pfffft.</p>
<p>I am thinking one thing I haven’t done is to put the moth traps in the pantry. I put it in a spot with air movement so the scent will get into the air easily and it’s been catching the moths. I think I should put more traps out esp. with the food and maybe it will control the population till January. We don’t get really cold here (-20C) till then. If I am lucky maybe the traps will do the trick, if not it’s out goes everything to the garage to freeze and ripping up everything.</p>