how do you deal with moths?

[greyvix]

We have a moth infestation in our London flat- tiny ones. Does anyone have a top tip for dealing with them?

Will be watching with interest as we have moths eating our clothes atm. Little buggers.

I don't want to use mothballs as myself and DCs are asthmatic.

Read something about lavender somewhere, so think will try that.

I have same moths everywhere, SE Lndon. Driving me MAD.
I don't think these are the clothes eating type, they are not attacking mine.
Or am I kidding myself?

Why are there so many this year?

I know, Shattered, we've never had a prob before, so I wondered whether it's got something to do with the weather this "summer"?

They definitely ARE eating our clothes. The dry cleaner brought up the topic when DH took his suit to be cleaned. We can't afford to get DH a new suit at the mo :-(

Clothes ones are golden apparently.
Mine are brown. We're having the loft converted so I thought it might have something to do with that.
Baffled.

I have moths too

Took me ages to work out why I was suddenly seeing little holes in stuff, I thought it was something to do with my washing machine!

Mind you, the cat is always happy to see them

You need pesticide people!

Lavender will have no effect on the moths, but will mean your holey clothes smell nice when you throw them in the bin.

It will cost you a fortune in clothes, bedding and carpets.

Eventually you will agree to use chemicals.

Transfluthrin is very good

A hot tumble drier and transparent plasticbags are useful.

Am on my phone. Do "Advanced Search" "Moths" for much more. It's a common problem.

The weather this year has resulted in moths EVERYWHERE. We are plagued with them. Nothing works except really strong chemicals which I won't use. Moth traps which you can get from John Lewis are a good second best and satisfying to see the dead critters!

My top tips:

Hoover everywhere regularly-right into the skirting boards next to carpets, as well as carpets themselves and inside wardrobes and chest of drawers.

Cedar balls are good but need replacing every 3 months. You can buy lavender scented ones that are powerful enough to ward them off yet don't stink of the typical anti-moth stuff.

I now take everything out of my wardrobe and off shelves every 3 months, give everything a good shake and hoover inside furniture, and then replace the cedar balls/hanging lavender thingies.
This also means that I take the opportunity to chuck out anything I haven't worn in a while, and vaccuum pack winter/summer stuff.

Are both moth types prevalent this year???
Been googling
Indianmeal moth (pantry moth) is what I have got and I think the OP too.
Those of your with clothes moth thinking of my carpets

Thanks for you responses. We will crack this together! I think our moths are eating clothes, unfortunately. We will get some John Lewis traps. Where do you buy Transfluthrin?

here's one I did earlier

Thanks-this is very helpful.

Be allergic to wool.
Hugely reduces the number of things for the Buggers to munch.

Shattered, we are also seeing the SE London moth brigade. Driving me mental.

The whistler
I was totally naive. We have a huge infestation of carpet case bearing moth. Under sofa and under the bed. We are having loft converted and the timings all stack up to when we saw moths and getting stuff out the loft.

Totally gutted. Carpet eaten in bedroom and lounge. Not covered on insurance although I have good accidental cover so some sort of whoops moment approaching.

Was about to order new carpet for loft and am putting all on hold until I'm sure they fuckers are gone.

On the bright side my pantry is sparkling bleached clean. I'm £40 worse off on pretty Tupperware and the moral of the story is never trust DH To google why there are moths in the house

I've noticed a few moths around recently and wondered if we have a problem.

What do they go for? Is it just pure wool items? Wool mix? Anything else?

hoovering, hoovering, spraying and hoovering

I'd start protecting your clothes as well. If you are having building work done, this is a good time to seal things in plastic crates (after tumble-drying) with a moth-killer in each.

You will be very distressed by damage to clothes. Case-bearers eat clothes as well.

So far so good on clothes. My carpets are 80% wool. Not hugely expensive, £25 ish meter sq so expensive enough!

If you have moths, you have larvae

Move all furniture off walls and Hoover all skirts, under sofas beds drawers and wardrobes.

Buy moth stuff! I went to mothkiller.co.uk and they were helpful on phone.

Yes, my moth eats everything but seems happy with carpet.

Empty all drawers, shake out all clothes and Hoover out drawers and cupboards.
60 wash everything to kill or dry clean

Hoover again.
I'll let you know how we get on. Summer is breeding time. The larvae can live quietly for 30 months. So across winter.
That's what spring cleaning is all about.

transfluthrin in a closed container kills eggs and larvae as well as adults.