MOTHS!

[Anonymoususer456]

Someone please help me!
mum waiting for a call from a pest man, but I think we have a moth infestation or rather a moth larvae infestation! I’m finding them everywhere in every room of my home!
im cleaning, washing and chucking things away and I just keep finding more and more.
the thing I find the strangest is there all these larvae but no adult moths?
is this normal?
isnthere anything I can do to help prevent it getting worse and once the problem is solved to help keep them away and from returning?
i know they don’t harm us but it makes me and my house feel so disgusting and dirty!
plus I’m fed up of throwing clothes that I can’t get them off!!

Google it

https://www.rentokil.co.uk/moths/how-to-get-rid-of-moths/

Are you sure they're moths? When I've found larvae there have always been as many adults crawling around too.

We had moths (as did many of our neighbours) last spring.

When you say you're throwing clothes out, do you mean wool garments that they have eaten? Because you shouldn't have any trouble with them on non-wool.

I bought this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MYU1YWA/ - and between this and a lot of vaccuuming I even got them out of a wool carpet, so I wouldn't expect to be binning anything that wasn't actually damaged beyond repair.

For clothes moths, putting garments in the freezer for a few days should take care of residual larvae. That's if you have a really big chest freezer that can also handle rugs!

Generally the most effective way of getting rid of them is biological pest control through (tiny tiny) trichogramma wasps. You order cards with the wasp eggs on them and once they hatch they'll feed on the moth larvae. Haven't tried it with clothes moths but had great success with food weevils.
https://plantura.garden/uk/beneficial-insects/ichneumon-wasps-for-moth-control

@Needablueskyholiday ive googled it multiple times. Not a lot is working apart from 60•c washes

@DarkAcademia they are on everything not just woollen items, we have a bedroom which we haven’t used in a while and I think that it’s begun in there as we had quite a few moths at the end of the summer last year, and obviously as moving and sorting out they have spread room to room before we realised they were there. I keep finding like cotton wool like substances on items some have the larvae in and others look like eggs of some sort.
I’m binning a lot of it because it’s not worth saving it, but other stuff I’m binning because my brain, I know I will never wear it again knowing it has had bugs in it, it’s the same if a cup gets slightly mouldy, not matter how clean it is I will not use that cup again.

@GrumpyPanda dont think I would dare use them to be honest! We had a couple around our garden last year and they were not small at all, with having a toddler and a 7 month old too, we already have wasps in our attic as well so 🤣

I tell people I’m going to charge them to enter as we are like an indict zoo here! We’ve had problems with ants, woodlice, slugs, wasps, ladybirds, and now these moth things!!!!!

Just found one for you all to inspect.

@Anonymoususer456 my mistake not explaining. These are nothing to do with ordinary wasps - they're so tiny you can't even see them! You literally just distribute the prepped cardboard pieces. After that, all is invisible.

But I do get you. Had a wasp infestation - the real ones - a few years ago where the wretched creatures built a nest in the casing for the roll-down window shutters. Come the next heat wave, they decided it was more comfortable inside the house 🙄

@GrumpyPanda oh ok! Still not sure if I want another critter living in my home but I will definitely take the advice if I cannot get rid of them after expelling other options!

honestly we’re like a bug hotel!

I’ve just turned my mattress upside down…. They have eaten holes in to it and there were adult clothes moths underneath! I feel disgusting that it has gotten this bad!

I've had this issue so I really do sympathise. Mine ate through leather shoes! The only thing that worked for me was chemicals. So, the rentokil spray, those cassette things in all cupboards and wardrobes, replaced every 6 months. Make sure you vacuum everything to within an inch of its life before you use the chemicals and put the strips and sticky catcher things everywhere. The most effective thing is the smoke bomb things can you buy. Keep using them, just to catch the odd ones that find their way back. I also spent a fortune on dry cleaning really good clothes because that kills them. I'm sorry to say that lavender or cedar anything made no difference at all.

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