I kept all new dry goods in Ziplocs but nothing seemed to work. Hi, *THIS WORKS! Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. do I have to keep all food in the fridge for the next 300+ days? (In addition, the TERRO packaging is much more compact and easier to store). Hi Jeanie, After looking up info online I read to put bay leaves on each shelf in cabinet. They are parasitic wasps that target 200 types of moths/butterflies The wasp seeks out & inserts its eggs inside the eggs of these pests, killing them before they enter the larval stage. I have gotten rid of so much food that all of a sudden came alive with these disgusting worms . i’ve seen worms fall from the ceiling, so i’m making a bleach solution in my spray bottle to zap those cracks in the ceiling and walls. In my kitchen on my ceiling I will get keeping grains in the fridge and freezer for the next four months to be sure!! There were two moths in our plates cupboard and we found three larvae in the shelf holes!! Eventually, we pulled off the moulding at the join between the kitchen ceiling and wall and found eggs there. WHAT CAN I DO?? I believe I found the source of the infestation which was a Tupperware containing two bags of rice (I always keep my rice in a Tupperware after discovering worms in a bag of rice once….fortunately threw it out in time). No dead moths! Thanks for the feedback! So I dont know where else to treat. Then I washed & cleaned everything from picture frames, CDs, washed the ceiling & walls with warm Clorox water. We all need your help. Hopefully that makes sense! When the infestation was really bad, I had one in the kitchen and one in the family room. Glad to hear you enjoyed this content. I sprayed “Ground Zero” with a Clorox bleach spray and have seen no other cocoons anywhere else. IF YOU MOVE THEY WILL COME WITH YOU, I ASSURE YOU. I tried the bug light and the pan of water tricks. Sure enough, there seemed to be a container with a moth inside it, with that webbising stuff. I keep throwing away food if someone was watching me through a window, would think I’m a lunatic- chasing these bugs around! Dazu gehört der Widerspruch gegen die Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten durch Partner für deren berechtigte Interessen. Good luck! Cleaned shelves & left empty. Bleach the buggers. If so can you see if it requires a lot of money? TH community members helping other TH community members — we love it. One black/wet. Hi Monica, We had them from bird food. Avout a half hour later i went to make my daighter dinner and i found anothrone floating in the water on the pot on the stove. At first we noticed mothes EVERYWHERE THEN I CLEANED MY BIRD CAGE AND NOTICED THE PILE OF BIRD SEED WAS STICKING TO THE CARD BORD. I keep my please very clean. She had the moths, blamed it on me, I thought she was crazy. I have a weird problem. Couldn’t imagine how they knew to bore into the container. It will just be a new habit. Having bed bugs in the couch means the infestation is bad. The tiny browns are not living on your pets, but rather feeding off your pets. Help! I keep my home impeccably clean and to see these worms appearing is most disscusting. In a mere ten minutes, I trapped at least 50 of the buggers. I was fed up with my moth problem; I can’t use chemicals (nor would I want to) because of my pets, and simply cleaning wasn’t doing the trick at all, so I hunted and hunted for a solution.. What I found is a parasitic wasp called Trichogramma that is almost impossible to detect in your home (full-grown, they are about the size of a small grain of sand) which implants it’s larvae in the eggs of pantry moths (along with appx 200 other species of insect). I wouldn’t bring you more food in there until the moth traps have been negative for about a week or two. Today I took everything out of the cupboard. Please let me know what you think. I had read that I should not ignore the little holes that are on the sides of adjustable shelving, so I made sure I sprayed those as well. So how do you kill the moths? The moth is not your problem. These little disgusting things will infest the seed cups and lay their eggs in them (seeds are clumped up together because of the web-like material these things make). Then I had company for a week and didn’t get anything else done. We too have had multiple episodes with these mothe and have done everything listed in posts. Then I cleaned it out. I had a well stocked vegetarian pantry & threw it all away. Painted and caulked! After spraying it down again, I am going to paint the pantry shelves with trim paint and an eggshell finish on the walls. N if so, how? How do you store those to keep the pest out? Those are notorious for collecting moth eggs and webs. I recently had an exterminator out, which seems to have helped slightly, but it hasn’t solved the problem. So I scrubbed all the food cupboards. HELP!!!!!!!! i dumped the whole bag in the yard and thought all is well. So I thought about it for a week and decided they were slow flyers and should be easy to catch. I would leave a link here to an example video which shows their typical treatment in the UK, for example, which should have a good standard for animal welfare (but doesn’t — we are all intentionally left in the dark about just how bad these welfare standards really are in the West for the livestock industry, unfortunately), but I doubt this website allows us to post links. Touch wood. I verified these results with completely fresh traps, and even watched the moths come to the pair or traps and entering the TERRO, while ignoring the SAFER. I appreciate all the tips and tricks for getting rid of tough infestations. You need to clean where the food was at Big Time. It cost a fortune throwing out a significant amount of food items ( I like to store – just in case) so not happy but with throwing out those items. If I keep them from eating will these EFFIN things die already. So I was doing dishes at my work when I saw what I believed to be fruit flies hanging over the sink. Where I know I do not store grain! I’m grossed out. I stuck one in every one of my cupboards and hoped for the best. Where do we keep them? Also, I’m nocturnal and the light in my office is the only one on for quite some distance. If you have adjustable shelves or pegboard, grab a toothpick and clean out the little peg holes! Most of them I sucked right out of the air while they were flying. I’m still getting them. Glad to hear that our article on pantry moths was helpful to you, they can be quite a pest! At that time we found them above the box, in the pegs of a bookshelf and in most of our CD movie collection! I can’t say it enough I’ve never seen this before we just moved into this home one year ago and they have been driving me crazy for a year this will be my week end project thank you Jennifer. We get quite a few cockroaches in the area where we are and I sprayed the cupboards with the cockroach spray (probably not very healthy, but I thought if it can kill something that can survive a atomic bomb then it will kill these critters). Can you give me some suggestions. in the grocery store. I then went away for the weekend. What is the theory behind using these products? So like everyone else I am left with mega frustration. But YOU MUST DO A VERY RADICAL CLEANING!! I didn’t expect anyone to reply to me. Not in a bad way-because I fight the good fight every day. I’m hoping persistence pays off & I don’t need to pay an exterminator. Thank you all!! Good luck everyone! It took me a complete year to get rid of these little buggers. The fruit flies will go away once you remove the fruit. The larvae can be in the folds of coffee packets, edges of cans, they can be anywhere! I had stragglers for about six months, but I can safely say I have not seen a single moth (not even in the traps) since November. I noticed them for about 10 days but didn’t think too much of it because I figured they’d only be around for a week or two as we usually get an influx of this bug or that bug when the seasons change. * I too have a pantry we bought IKEA so we have the small peg holes and found some cacoons in there… like a lot of you, I haven’t found a solution to our problem either they’re very hard to get rid of I just wanted to add for cleaning purposes look inside those small pink hole where the shelving goes. I’ve washed all shelves and jars and containers and even vacuumed cracks all to wake up to more flying nightmares days later. Anyone have success stories from hiring exterminators? I found this article when I did a google search and it has helped me greatly! Is it available online anywhere or at walmart? Why are they in rooms that there is no food? When I first started noticing them I went looking for infested grain items after actually seeing them flying around the baking aisle (Yikes!) And the worms look just like the ones I found. If you use Trichogramma to kill the pantry moths, how do you get rid of the wasps? Well I also started seeing the little moths flying around..maybe one or 2 in my bedroom..my granddaughter an I even named them..well then they started multiplying..first one or 2..now 6 or 10 per room..we have 3 bedrooms..so my Mom old school says get moth balls for the closets..so I got boxes..opened them up..set them in all the bedrooms..still they were there..so I went an got my hand cdust buster..I went from room to room..sucking up those little buggers like crazy..It took about a week..but the upstairs bedrooms an bathroom are moth free..I also sprayed bug spray on the window sils..an curtains..so that was all set..now down on the main floor..I got the dust buster recharged..an sucked every one I could find..again about a weeks time..most of them gone except one area..where we had a box that we stored our winter boots..I pulled the box out..now this is in August..an found inside of the fur of the boots..larve..eggs..stuck to the lining..hundreds of them..turned boots over..an more eggs were stuck along the treads of the boots..I started pulling out more an more boots..even the rubber rain boots..those eggs were sticky..an down right disgusting..I had to throw most of them away..the boots were a breeding ground..now who looks at boots in August..well me now..I did manage to keep my Uggs..one had eggs under the bottom treads..the other one was good.