Cupboard/pantry moths, any better ideas on how to get rid of them?
I had these for about 6 mos before I figured out they were coming mainly from the cupboard where we store our dog food, but after fumigating the entire house, then cleaning with Clorox(Checked my cupboards close, the peg holes to adjust the shelving...mine are sealed with nest?) and throwing away all opened packages, and have storing everything in sealed containers, they are back after 2 weeks. Not to the extreme they were before, but slowly coming back, and not just in the kitchen, they are in my upstairs bathroom, the living room... I have cathedral ceilings, and wonder if the fumigator wasn't concentrated enough due to this fact, so I am going to give it another go, double dose, and hope it works for good this time. All steps, again! SO tiresome. Once it is all cleared up maybe I will feel like I can eat cereal again. Yucky, little buggers! Gross me right out.
Does anyone else have any ideas on how to kill them out for good?
Dog food is cuurently in a sealed container, and will continue to be stored this way.
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sorry for the laziness, just cut n pasted from an earlier answer I gave…
" you need to remove what they are in or may of gotten into…anything made from a plant material, usually seeds such as cereal, corn meal, tea, nuts, peanuts. Empty cabinets where you store the foods and thoroughly clean, concentrate in cracks and on the under side of shelving. Open unopened boxes not so much that they are in the food but have just crawled under the flap to pupate to the adult which if go unnoticed will show up in a couple of weeks to start the infestation again. Also check old dogie treats..bird seed and potpourri and dried floral arrangements you may have around the home. No insecticide will be needed. "
what probably happened was you needed to open up the unopened boxes of stuff, not so much that they are getting into the food, but they will pupate into the adult moth, takes a couple of weeks, under the flaps of the boxes (cereal, pancake mix, etc.)
put your dog food in like a big plastic container with a lid? thats what i do. or get a cat? they eat bugs lol! or put all your stuff that gets bugs in plastic containers they have them at all the stores and u can get ones for cereal and like petco has the big ones for dogs… just an idea!
Do Not Fumigate again!! Once each year, no more. It won’t help anyway. They live on the boxes when they are eggs. They look like white silk. You may have a food source for them that you are not seeing, like granola or something like that. Spray your landscape with an approved insecticide and use traps, moth balls, or organic methods like cedar strips. Someone may know more of these.
Vacuuming the cracks and crevices where the food is kept and behind the appliances.
Moths lay the eggs.
When the larvae are ready to pledge, they cease eating and head for the walls and ceilings. Here they spin cocoons from which the adults will emerge and begin the cycle again.Maybe that is what they did.