Comments on: How to Rid a Home of Pantry Moths or Weevils

on 5/22/2009 hoboken frank here still looking for an answer to my question below on where pantry moths can live. many thanks! and dont forget --fly me to the moon baby!

on 5/21/2009 never had pantry noths in 10 years til now. thought we got rid of em last year and now theyre back!!!!can they live w/out food particles?? and can they nest in a corner w/out food... IF i knew this it wld help me get the no gooders!!!thx.

on 11/14/2008 PLEASE HELP, We have had pantry moths, i have thoroughly cleaned everything in the pantry, threw almost everything out as it had the little grub thingies growing on everything! but they are still there, since the clean (and the warm weather?) they have now multiplied and spread throught the house and i dont know what to do.is there something you can buy to kill the little buggers or should i get the 'bug man' in?
any help and i would be very grateful, thanks Yarna
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on 10/18/2008 First n my long life I have discovered grain weevils in my pantry!! Now they're gone I discovered plastic is not healthy... for anything. Store grains etc in GLASS containers -left over from a product used. Otherwise, store in refrig or freez. Good luck!

on 9/29/2008 This was useless advice. This should go under "no duh!" I read better advice in the old fogey website. They said to keep matches in the flour b/c the things don't like sulfur.

on 9/28/2008 Hey, that's me in that picture up there!! It's a stock photo taken 25 years ago at the height of my modeling career!! ;-) Liz

on 7/25/2008 Put a Rosemary plant in your pantry. The smell clears them in days and it is aromatic to you also.

on 7/13/2008 HELP!!

We had pantry months about a year ago, cleaned the pantry out, threw most things away, found the source, eliminated it. Then we used pantry pest sticky traps to get rid of the remaining few. Since then we have put a few peppermint gum pieces around. No problem.

UNTIL NOW.

We have many moths all around our living room and even a few upstairs, however, there are NONE in the pantry. I have looked through it, cannot find the source anywhere. Any help would be appreciated. Brett bchall5@gmail.com

on 6/17/2008 Hello, From - Justin Email:Jecenlightened@aol.com

I have found no way to destroy off the moth infestations in my kitchen. I too got these critters(Moths/Worms) from a cereal box that spread to candy bars, that I had in a plastic storage containers.

The larvae ate through the plastic containers and even around spice container lids. They tend to live around any metal ring lid canning jars etc in the grooves, although they cannot get inside they can and will survive in the ring lids, you also need to check any recently purchased dry foods, they love cardboard boxes, noodles etc..

You should also open all spices you have and check the lids, you will find them there. Yea they are tiny and most people never open the lids of spices to check for the infestations.

Email me if you find any in these locations. If you have had them any time at all I tossed several hundreds

on 10/4/2007 Wow! Bay leaves & peppermint gum! I was advised by our ag. extension expert (& I tried; it worked) open containers of vinegar; the problem is potential spillage. I have bought bay leaves for cooking in bulk CHEAP at Indian or other ethnic food stores (like $4/quart) so if they work...! I have also recently been told that the bayberry bushes that grow around the USA (wild and landscape - recognized by the small, bluish-grayish waxy berries clustering on the twigs - are the source of bay leaves for cooking. If so, I buy no more! As an aside, I tried what the early settlers supposedly did and boiled a whole bunch of the bayberries, skimmed off the floating melted wax, and made candles. I wonder if these would drive moths away, too?

on 9/7/2007 I am perplexed...I got moths from cereal I bought at a wholesale club. I cleaned my kitchen from top to bottom and threw everything out that wasn't in a jar or can, and then washed the cans and jars, the cabinets and put moth traps in my cabinets. I scrubbed everything down in my cabinets with a clorox cleaner, then put everything in hard plastic containers. When I come home I dont put boxes in the cabinets and I put the food in the plastic containers...I went away again, and just looked in my cereal, there are moths and larva in my cereal after 3 weeks. I'm so grossed out. Any ideas?

on 6/8/2007 help
moths are taking over.
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on 11/21/2006 I am currently involved in ridding my pantry of a moth infestation. My kids noticed that a bowl left out overnight was filled with dead moths. In the bowl?? oil..from making a vinegar/oil/garlic salad dressing the night before. They then took a paper plate and smeared it with oil and went into the pantry and swiped and swooped it at the moths. They caught at least 30 + moths! Also, the sticky traps work real well. We suspect our bags of bird and rat food were harboring eggs. They will go into the freezer for a week next time.

on 10/29/2006 Mint is not a good deterrent. I have found the larva actually cocooning in a box of mint tea, and in a large, unopened foil bag of organic spearmint. And it isn't only food they are after. After beingcurious of their source, and cleaning my pantry, I have discovered them (the weevils) cocooning in the folds of paper bags, in boxes of non-food items, and even inside a toenail clipper. Seems that any dark, undisturbed niche can be called home! I appreciated all the other comments, as they were helpful, but the mint as a repellant in my experience is totally useless.

on 8/8/2006 Buy what you need, or what you will use up quickly, and check packaging before you buy (in case the food product is nearing it's expiration date). Once the hot weather sets in here (northern Italy), I place all the dry food stuffs (pasta, grains, flour) into plastic bags and then store them in the fridge until the cooler weather returns. Also, vacuum and wash kitchen drawers regularly because crumbs can get into the crevices making another place for the larvae to breed.