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Hate the little blighters but virtually resigned to them now. My nice winter jumpers now go into ziplock bags with lavender/mothballs over the summer. I do like the sticky pheremone traps for the wardrobe though... at least I feel like I"m getting my revenge!

After I had a total blitz last year, using various methods, touch wood I have only had one moth. However I am not complacent, as they seem to come out in warm weather.


The one moth I had flew out of a cardboard shoe box when I opened it - it had never occurred to me moths would like shoes. I don't go into my shoe boxes very often as they contain my shoes with heels :))


I found the Rentokil moth killer strips and hanging units sorted my problems with clothes (and also fabrics, as I have piles of fabrics waiting to be turned into things). Though when I had the infestation previously I had to spray things like cushions and wall hangings with something which also killed eggs and larvae to sort the problem.


I found a cheap source of the strips and hanging units on Amazon - I'll try to post a link to it, no time to track it down at the moment.

Tarot Wrote:

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> I once had a whole set of very good sable oil

> painting brushes eaten by moths,just little dusty

> stumps left on handles

> if only i,d had a picture of my own face when i

> saw them,still not over it.


xxxxxxx


Oh no :-S


Probably a bit like my face when I found they'd eaten most of a wall hanging I'd lovingly woven at a workshop, which was being stored in a cupboard whilst my house was in chaos.


The hanging not the workshop, obviously.

I agree about the pheromone sticky traps. It's fun to see the little buggers stuck on them. I get mine from ebay. And we put them everywhere. About four in the living room floor level, and a few stuck to the ceiling of the wardrobes. One thing I learned from the aforementioned useful website above posted by someone was that the moths like moisture, so they'd like human sweat, so therefore they like worn clothes and shoes where there is human sweat. So clean and thoroughly dry clothes before you put them away, and keep worn clothes somewhere separately and enclosed. Quick!!! There's one!

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