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Well, we have not been that lucky, so I would love to know what you have used Sue - we have spent literally 100s of pounds in professional products but keep finding still damage in both carpets and clothes. I know it is a big house but we seem to have an all pervasive infestation. Any suggestions over and above calling in experts at great cost would be hugely appreciated!


Many thanks

Lowlander Wrote:

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> Share your secrets please! Have spent a small

> fortune on the pheremone traps, which work in

> catching the blighters, but not stopping them.


xxxxx


There have been several threads on this before. I'm up to my eyes at the moment trying to sort my printer which has thrown a wobbly, but I'll try to find them later.


I tried loads of stuff before I succeeded in sorting the moths - sticky traps (they caught my partner's hair but not much else :)) ), lavender and sandalwood things to hang in the wardrobe, on which I spent a fortune in John Lewis (the things, not the wardrobe. The moths just crawled over them, indeed they seemed to quite like them) etc etc..


So basically and reluctantly I resorted to physical and chemical means.


The physical means was removing a bedroom carpet where I found evidence of moth chomping (well, it's the larvae which chomp) behind the bed where I would not normally have noticed it. Luckily I was in the process of removing all my carpets and moving to wood floors anyway.


To get rid of the initial (bad) moth infestation, I sprayed all my cushions and wall hangings etc in the rest of the house with a spray which not only zapped live things but also zapped later emerging larvae (if memory serves). And was specially intended for fabrics (you need to be careful to use the right thing).


I used a room chemical thing too (you have to leave the house for a while afterwards).


I put sheets of chemically impregnated paper (it doesn't smell) between all my woollen jumpers in drawers. I also hid them amongst my cushions.


I hung chemical hanging things (they don't smell either) in my wardrobe.


All this worked wonders.


Now, I still use the stuff in my clothes drawers and wardrobes, but I also keep a moth spray on both floors of my house. I very occasionally spot a clothes moth, and if I am not quick enough to squish it, I spray it ASAP. The spray is handy if the moth crawls under a cupboard or something where you can't get at it.


I am now expert at spotting a female moth (they slither. Very quickly) and a male moth (they fly about) at a zillion paces.


My daughter very very reluctantly (being very green) had to resort to chemicals as well after a bad infestation in her house, and that was also successful.


I'll try to post what I used/still use as soon as I have (please, please) sorted out my printer ....


ETA: I have found that clothes moths don't only go for wool. I have found them in the past amongst folded towels in my bathroom, for example. YUK.

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