Well, I vacuumed 4 adult moths today, but the good or bad news--depending on how we want to look at it--is that they weren't in the pantry. They were on the kitchen ceiling. So, they're not gone.
The actual good news is that I found this website: http://www.indianmealmoths.com/meal-moth-control
It answers a lot of the questions I haven't been able to find information on, and at least gives me some hope. A few things cleared up:
1. The Catchmaster moth traps do work. Unfortunately, as I had feared, it's the male moths they kill, not the females. So, if we have a male moth who isn't seduced by the trap pheremones and finds one of the female moths and they get together for a little moth whoopee, we still have problems. Not that we're going to stop using them, but I was really hoping it was the female moths and their worm-baby breeding ability we were bumping off.
2. Nothing kills the pupal stage of these beasts. Very sad news. Especially since I vacuumed up so many of the beasts in their cocoons. Here's hoping the Raid I've regularly sprayed into the vacuum gets them as soon as they emerge from this indestructible pupal stage. I don't care if we've emptied the vacuum by then--I just want all of them dead.
3. It takes time. Not that we weren't realizing this, but "taking time" is better than "freakin' impossible." So there is hope.
1 comment:
Your research is certainly paying off. Hopefully you will have this infestation completely under control soon.
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