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DD, you live in Austria???
Ah, what a beautiful country!!! I loved my time there, and would go back in a heart beat . . . and to Germany and the Netherlands and Scotland and England and. . . . . But I would imagine that those dang moths in any country are so blasted annoying -- no matter where you live. I'm cleaning out my freezer so I can fit all perishables in and freeze the larvae. What's a little extra protein in the oats, eh?
posted by
JanesOpinion
on February 9, 2005 at 8:37 PM
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JanesOpinion ....
I had an Indian Meal Moth invasion here in Austria last summer ~ it was brutal! 
posted by
Dark_Dreamer
on February 8, 2005 at 11:28 AM
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Golly PastorB, but I guess that's yet another movie I shall have to rent!
You're giving me such an education on movies. 
They're all PG-13 or less, right?
posted by
JanesOpinion
on February 2, 2005 at 8:21 PM
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LOL, I can just picture the guy from the movie "The Fly" knocking
on your door any second now! LOL
posted by
PastorB
on February 2, 2005 at 12:16 PM
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Ha! PastorB
I'm into attracting the opposite sex, but I certainly don't want to be the siren sex goddess for all the male fly species of the world. Wouldn't that be a disaster!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on February 2, 2005 at 9:58 AM
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Actually, Justso,
it's like a little triangular tent coated with a sticky substance. In the middle is a little sponge (about 1 cm by 1 cm). Even as I set up the simple contraption, the flies were (very annoyingly) dive bombing ME thinking I was the super special scented one! So before I had it completely folded into its triangle, I actually caught some of the flies. I set the finished product up on top of my refrigerator, and by nighttime there were probably a minimum of 10 flies caught on the sticky paper. It's small, approx 3x3 inches, made of light cardboard. I found it in the section of the store where all sorts of bug killers -- from mosquitoes to lawn to cockroaches, etc -- are sold. For $6.00 you get two traps, and they supposedly last 3 months. Meanwhile, by using them, you disrupt the growth, reproduction and development cycles of the flies. I agree that freezing is the easiest solution but until I get my freezer reorganized to accomodate more stuff, I shall have to resort to SEX HORMONES!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on February 2, 2005 at 9:56 AM
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JanesO
It is so great you posted this. We have all had this problem at one time or another. I lost a lot of food before I found my solution; however, that would not work if I didn't have a huge freezer. Does this thing just zap them?
posted by
Justi
on February 2, 2005 at 8:54 AM
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Yeah,
the freezer's a great idea . . . if only I had room for all of it.
posted by
JanesOpinion
on February 2, 2005 at 8:39 AM
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better watch it, we'll have bloggers rushing out to buy it and
rub it all over themselves thinking it will attract the opposite sex!
I agree with Justso, freezing the flour and stuff is the best way. I keep flour, rice, pasta, coffee and all those kinds of things in the freezer.
posted by
PastorB
on February 2, 2005 at 7:44 AM
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Now this sounds like a product that I could use!
posted by
Original_Influence
on February 2, 2005 at 4:22 AM
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JanesO - Does it work for fruit flies. Those little pesky things come out of nowhere. Interesting post.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 1, 2005 at 9:42 PM
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JanesOpinion
That is cool. I had a bad problem too. They get into everything. I freeze wholewheat flour, brown rice, grits, corn meal anything they get into and it works. My country agent told me this but she said I only needed to freeze them for a couple of days. She said they come with the little larve in them and unless they are destroyed by freezing they will come out, yuk doubled. But it works so well and as long as I have freezer room I just do it. But that sex magnet sounds fantastic.
posted by
Justi
on February 1, 2005 at 3:59 PM
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