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There's panty moth larvae in me kitchin wot am I gonna do....

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ThomBat · 07/10/2006 20:31

Oh MY F'ing GOD

Mornings don't come much worse than ours today.

Vet said that the bill would either be £800 min our £2.5K max! [shock}

Then as we are trying to come to terms with this, DP spies what we were convinced were about 25 maggots on out ceiling in the kitchen!

Can you even begin to imagine.

We were freaking inside but trying to keep it together.

We just about to move out when DP googled 'maggots on ceiling' and turns out we have PANTRY MOTH LARVAE!

Still gross but much happier.

Anyone had this, or heard of it before?

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WitchICouldGiveUpWork · 07/10/2006 20:34

Sorry for the predicament but PMSL at spelling on thread title!

What was vet bill for?

Mum2FunkyDude · 07/10/2006 20:37

Pantry Moths nasty buggers

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ThomBat · 07/10/2006 20:54

Thread title to be sung in the tune of There's a rat in my kitchen what am I going to do' by UB40.

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BATtymumma · 07/10/2006 20:58

oh TC im so sory but i am ROFL at Panty moths!

TortUREoiseChamber · 07/10/2006 20:59

I had to click on this thread to find out what a panty moth was!

HallgerdaLongcloak · 07/10/2006 21:33

Yes, they're scary. I found some in a tub of out-of-date chilli powder once - they're very tough.

hatwoman · 07/10/2006 21:49

pretty yuk but pantry moth has to be better than panty moth

TheBlairAitchProject · 07/10/2006 21:51
  1. am enjoying at the thread title, DH is always singing that song when DD sneaks into the kitchen. (he substitutes the word 'rat' for 'baby', obviously).
  1. I have now realised that we had these in a flat we once rented. we got rid of them by moving...
Gobbledispook · 07/10/2006 21:55

Thank God it isn't panty moths!

hollyhobbie · 07/10/2006 22:04

yuk! we had these for AGES... the only solution was to put all dried foods into glass jars. and to kill all moths on sight.
evil evil.

Gingerbear · 07/10/2006 22:06

Did they migrate from your knicker drawer TC??? ROFL.

covenoveneer · 07/10/2006 22:06

I did wonder why you kept your panties in the kitchen .

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ThomBat · 07/10/2006 22:29

While you lot have been giggling at me having moths in my panties (!) I have thrown an entire bin bag of dried foods away and killed 3 moths hiding on the cereal shelf.

Ewwwwwwww!

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TheBlairAitchProject · 07/10/2006 22:31

you might find that the larvae have crept into the seams of plastic bags and the edges of tins. i remember washing everything... EVERYTHING!

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TheBlairAitchProject · 07/10/2006 23:00

oh lordy, it is grim Thombat. on a lighter note i read about Lottie's cautious approach to entering her bedroom. it's the only way to do it, i reckon. i'm edging everywhere from now on... but i promise to be careful around the radiators.

suedonim · 07/10/2006 23:30

I had a version of 'panty moth' last week! I got bitten by a Tumbu Fly in the area where my leg joins my bum, iykwim, and had a f*ckin worm crawl out of the sore!!!! Usually, you get it because the fly lays eggs in the seams of your knicks but in my case I think I got it from cushions outdoors. Oh, the joys of expat life.....

weewilliewinkie · 08/10/2006 08:29

oh, I so sympathise tb - I have been dealing with this all summer and was about to lose my mind. I was hoovering the caterpillars off the kitchen ceiling every morning, swatting at moths all day - it's a fecking nightmare.

Anyway, what you have to do is this - clear out ALL your cupboards. Thoroughly clean them with bleach. You'll find dead moths everywhere - they crawl into any opened food, esp cereals, biscuits, flours, that kind of thing. You have to find where they are laying their eggs - you'll know when you do because you'll find a bag of flour or something literally covered with larvae - hundreds of tiny little beige coloured eggs which kind of hang down (gross, I know). Get rid of this immediately - take it OUTSIDE, don't just put it in your bin.

You have to find the root of the problem before they'll disappear. I have spent the entire summer continuosly cleaning out cupboards, putting food in glass jars, cereal in plastic containers -make sure everything is airtight - those little buggers can get in anywhere! However, I only discovered where my moths had been laying their larvae last week (cue much cheering and dancing around the kitchen)- it was a packet of pearl barley - and chucked it in the outside bin - since then, I haven't seen a single caterpillar. I still have the odd moth but am just whacking them on sight. Sticky moth paper/traps help a little bit too.

Good luck - and just be grateful these little b*tards aren't in your panties...

wartywarthog · 08/10/2006 09:10

bleueeueughghghg suedonim! where are you??? in deepest, darkest africa?

mum2monkeys · 08/10/2006 09:43

Friend had these - she was told to put bay leaves in all her cupboards - apparently helps to drive them away, as well as airtight containers for everything. HTH

TheBlairAitchProject · 08/10/2006 11:41

funnily enough, i remember finding loads of them when i threw out a packet of dried soup mix, pearl barley, lentils, split peas etc, so maybe barley is their favourite place to hide. they had got in through a tiny slit in the seam of the pack.

beetroot · 08/10/2006 11:46

[shudder]

TooTickyTheAppleMuncher · 08/10/2006 11:54

You're gonna fix them larvae, that's what you're gonna do, you're gonna fix them larvae...
(UB40 fan...)

Mirage · 08/10/2006 17:51

You have given me such a laugh-I keep imagining panty moths now.Thanks.

hollyhobbie · 08/10/2006 17:59

oh, and we even found larvae in the washing powder! (i kept imagining what a terrible life they must lead in there- nothing to eat, stinging eyes...) so make sure you don't just check foodstuffs.

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