Urgh, freaky weird horribleness.

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

Just cleaning the hamster out and went to refill his food bowl up.
Now we have always poured all food into a glass lidded jar and store it away in the cupboard. Just opened it and it's all sticky and weird and loads of moths flew out.

Im still twitching and shuddering because of it.

Disclaimer: I have been giving the hamster food and not leaving it to starve, there was just more of his food left over in the bag I bought it in and was using that up first before I started using the food out of the jar. MN pet extremists please dont lynch me.

Weird!! Did you manage to get rid of the moths, or are they still all flapping around?

I am sorry to say it but I think that have have food moths (or a type thereof) in your house. I had this a few years ago and, as a matter of fact, suspected that the moths came in with some pet food (guinea pig food as it happens). Unfortunately, these moths can and will infest your entire kitchen. We had throw out every single item of food except tuns (i.e. even sealed Cornflakes packets and such) and we had to have the pest controllers in who fumigated the kitchen.

omg....

urggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Can they get out of a sealed glass jar and infect the rest of my food?
OMG I feel sick, im eating cornflakes as I read this! LOL.

Ive just googled it, you're not pulling my leg!
It is indian meal moths.

Im moving out next week so I'll have a good look through all dried foods, luckily the pet food is kept completely seperate from all our dried food so hopefully nothing is infected...
Hope they've died out from starvation before our new tenants move in!!

I am afraid that they will have gotten out when you opened the hamster's glass jar and they flew out and they may even have gotten out previously.

If this is your flat you are renting out, I feel you have some responsibility to get it fumigated before your tenants move in, if not, at least tell the landlord there is an issue.

It is not very nice but I can at least tell you that, after we had the kitchen fumigated, we never had the problem again.

Thanks Summersoon for replying and letting me know about all this.
Ive gotten rid of all dried stuff. I'm gonna make some phonecalls, from what ive read on tinternet I shouldnt have kitchen fumigated with insecticide because of potential food contamination. Last thing I want is new tenants claiming to be poisoned!