PANTRY MOTHS

daughter in law loves organic and so brought some nuts into the house, a couple of weeks later I noticed what was a single maggot above my oven, thought that was strange then another one on the ceiling. googled it and guess what? Pantry moths. So every single item of food in the pantry got binned, cupboards vacced, washed and bay leaves put down. Pantry moth traps set.  All food once open goes into tupperware (or like) containers. DIL boughts some more nuts, opened the container the other day and here were the same buggers again. I notice the little moths flying around during the night and I kill them with windex, yes windex as normal fly spray doesn't work but the windex does.  However do you think I can find where they are breeding? It is slowly driving me insane.  Just wondering if anyone else has had the unfortunate experience in dealing with these little buggars and how please tell me that you eventually got rid of them short of moving house?

 

 

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I had some four in plastic containers,

 

Duh...................flour

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I have found that as long as I freeze flour when I first buy it, and keep all other pantry items in sealed containers I have no trouble at all with weevils or pantry moth.

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@imastawka wrote:

@gem-boy-g wrote:

do the bay leaves actually go in with the flour etc. i.e. in the tupperware or plastic seal bag or are they just strewed around the pantry? or both


I do both - just to be safe

 

I had some four in plastic containers, and I thought

 

'No need to do that anymore'  but nope - weevils hatched.....eeeeewwwwwww

and everything went into the garbage bin in a plastic bag!

 

So now, bay leaves in everything


do you see the moths flying around?  Im seriously sitting waiting everynight windex in hand....my family think im out of the cuckos nest

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