UFO - bug ID
May 9, 2019 11:03 AM Subscribe
I have these critters occasionally flying solo around my home: pale brown, papery/lacy wings, about 6mm long. North-east USA ... Images of a slightly dead specimen, scale is in mm. Thank you!
Response by poster: Yup slow and lumbering. Pantry moths would make sense as (a) they are in the kitchen a lot and (b) I thought they had appeared after buying a sack of rice from the Indian store. Sack of rice went in the trash a long time ago. Looks like I will have to do some cleaning and sorting to find the critters.
posted by carter at 11:16 AM on May 9, 2019
posted by carter at 11:16 AM on May 9, 2019
Those things are hard to get rid of. I used the traps, and had a major cleaning and getting rid of stuff, buying of /using sealed containers, and it still took a while.
posted by rudd135 at 4:15 PM on May 9, 2019
posted by rudd135 at 4:15 PM on May 9, 2019
They sell glue traps that are baited with female pheromones to catch the males, if you are interested in deploying those.
My friend leaves out a quarter inch of sweet juice in three or four containers and while she has to dispose of drown pantry moths every day her population shows no sign of abating. I am not entirely sure if this isn't encouraging them.
The worst thing about pantry moth eradication is that they can hide behind the paper labels on tin cans. So you need to take the labels off your cans while doing the big pantry clean and that means relabeling them or take hobson's choice at supper time. Opening three random cans can result in a supper comprised of canned pears, canned pears and canned chicken gravy...
posted by Jane the Brown at 11:31 AM on May 10, 2019
My friend leaves out a quarter inch of sweet juice in three or four containers and while she has to dispose of drown pantry moths every day her population shows no sign of abating. I am not entirely sure if this isn't encouraging them.
The worst thing about pantry moth eradication is that they can hide behind the paper labels on tin cans. So you need to take the labels off your cans while doing the big pantry clean and that means relabeling them or take hobson's choice at supper time. Opening three random cans can result in a supper comprised of canned pears, canned pears and canned chicken gravy...
posted by Jane the Brown at 11:31 AM on May 10, 2019
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posted by Stewriffic at 11:11 AM on May 9, 2019 [2 favorites]