Baby friendly moth extermination - pls help!

[shaunag]

So baby being most four months I started organising my wardrobe, only to find several items (including my three best suit trousers) full of holes :( does anyone have any suggestions for treatments that work bearing in mind a limited budget and baby in the house (that will be crawling on Carpets in a few months)? I have found eggs (eww) on the carpet under a basket the cleaner clearly hasn't been moving, but the carpet hasn't been chomped. I also have not seen any live critters recently (although I remember seeing them a long time ago- maybe last year... It grosses me out especially as I have a mild fear of moths. Pls help!

[Medusa]

I have been trying to get rid of my moths with the stuff in clip-on things that you hang in wardrobes. I read that cleaning and moving things around regularly helps, as does making sure you don't leave dirty laundry lying around. So far I've reached 'improved, but not gone' in my campaign. And the little blighters always chomp on my favourite things...

[Beagle]

Light and air. Get everything out of the wardrobe, air in sunlight and dry clean or wash, bag and into freezer if it is a fabric attractive to moths.

They don't tend to stay out in the open so where baby will be crawling should be ok. Dark corners, crevices, under beds, their preferred homes.

If you hoovered up eggs and general moth debris get that bag emptied and into the rubbish as it is the perfect breeding ground for moths.

The pheremone traps v highly recommended on forum but if you can eliminate the eggs etc that is a head start. Given the relatively mild winter they will probably be hatching soon.

My husband had a Pringle jumper (unwanted parental gift) that was like a colander!

K&o pest control do the moth sticky traps they might be able to advise how best to control too but the traps are fairly widely available.

I don't like them either and have been known to balance on chairs heavily pregnant trying to swat them like a loon. The only good clothes moth being a squashed one in my book.

Do a search on forum there is lots of good advice as common issue.

[shaunag]

Thanks for the tips-will have to make some room into freezer, and get cleaning and airing! I should be doing it myself now anyway. So gross, have the pheromone traps in and will go empty the Hoover.thanks again.

[BellendenBear]

I think it's almost impossible to clear them but you can certainly reduce them using the advice above. Steam cleaning the carpets made a huge difference for us. We still have a few but nothing like the problem we had 2 or 3 years ago.

[Saffron]

Food grade diatomaceous earth. Google or similar for suggested ways to use against moth infestation. xx

[esme]

John Lewis have some natural sachets