Critters in the flour...

[brickie in oz]

Re: Critters in the flour...

them.

Here we call them meal moths.

Just done a google, yep thats them, you can get traps I found on google too.

[brickie in oz]

Re: Critters in the flour...

After googling I realized the attractant was some dry corn for seed I had hanging up in the pantry, I grabbed it down and out flew some moths.

A while ago my wife opened a pack of rice crispies out of our pantry and the whole packet was wriggling with the maggots.

Ive ordered some traps.

[brickie in oz]

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I set one of the sticky traps I got off ebay and caught 12 moths from the pantry in 1 night.

[mrchipster]

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I set one of the sticky traps I got off ebay and caught 12 moths from the pantry in 1 night.

You have a serious infestation. Good Luck.

Chip

[stoveup]

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We constantly fight meal moths. They arrive in bags of seed we buy for our parrots. I keep all flours, meals, and bulk seeds in the freezer and use the moth traps during warm weather.

[brickie in oz]

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I think it must be good weather for Meal Moth breeding, they are queuing up out side of the screen door to get in each night even with all food in a sealed containers.

Maybe they are like turtles and return to their place of hatching?

The traps in the pantry have caught 40 or more, plus we spay them each night outside of the pantry.

[brickie in oz]

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In 2 weeks this trap has caught 67 of the blighters, we have 2 traps in the pantry, I didnt count the other one.

[C5dad]

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Yikes Brickie! I hope you can get them things under control soon. It is a total PITA getting infested

[Aussie Pete]

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Do you remember the ebay site you got them from Al, i think they would be good in my pantry as well.

[brickie in oz]

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Nah sorry, it was an Ozzie seller, search for Pantry Moth.

Here it is.... I renewed them just the other day and they were chockers and the new ons have got half a dozen already.

[TropicalCoasting]

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They sell that brand in Coles and Woolies minus postage.

[brickie in oz]

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Cool, Ill have to check it out..