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<\/b> We covered this in the first part of our article Pantry Moth Life Cycle<\/a> with some basic Scientific Information about moths, how the pantry moth life cycle progresses and varieties of pantry moths that you might encounter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n We’ll explore how to recognize a moth infestation, cleaning up the mess caused by a pantry moth infestation, and indian meal \/ food moth control techniques including: Pantry Moth Pheromone traps, Folk Remedies and pesticides.<\/p>\n The obvious signs of moth infestation is adult pantry moths who fly around mostly at night. Once you have seen an adult pantry moth in flight, head for the nearest food sources, and start looking for cocoon webbing, or worm-like moth larvae in very old dry food products. Check around edges of cupboards and food storage areas for webbing, or just open a plastic container or cereal box and notice an adult pantry moth fly out. In any of theses cases you can bet you have a moth problem. The type of moth is not really important, because the main types of pantry moths are all from the same Pyralidae Family and the techniques for effective control of pantry moths are all the same.<\/p>\n So the first step to getting rid of pantry moth infestations is finding the source of the pantry moths.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Once the source of the pantry moths has been located its time to clean up the mess. The foodstuff these nuisance pantry pests have lived needs to be thrown out. When you control the source of food, you control the next wave of infestation.<\/p>\n If you are certain you have located the only food items infested, just put them in a garbage bag, seal it and throw it outside (don’t even leave it in the garage until trash day, unless you want the risk of pantry moths in your garage too!).<\/p>\n If you are not positive that you have a single source then you will need a more methodical process:<\/p>\n When you are certain that you have thoroughly removed all of these sources of “young pantry moths”, emptying the vacuum bag, and wash all garabage cans as a final measure.<\/p>\n At this point you may only have the stray adults to deal with, and you can move to the section below on Pantry Moths Ongoing Control<\/b><\/p>\n<\/section>\n We receive plenty of inquiries from diligent house keepers wondering why they were not able to keep a kitchen clean enough to prevent pantry moths. Don’t blame yourself! Pantry Moths arrive inside <\/b> many foods that you bring into your house, and by opening the food you are unleashing an invasion force of pantry moths.<\/p>\n There is no way that you can prevent the food you buy from the risk of pantry moths<\/em>. So you need to take pro-active measures to prevent a full scale pantry moth infestation. We review the most able and effective Pantry Moths Control approaches: Pantry Moth Traps<\/a> and then also look at some less common methods including Temperature control, moth insecticide, pesticides and Pantry moth folk remedies.<\/p>\n The safest, natural method to get rid of moth infestation is the use of Pheromone Based Pantry Moth Traps<\/a>. Pheromone Traps are a natural moth trap free of poisions or pesticides. These pantry moth traps use a super sticky glue board, and the same female pantry moth pheromone<\/b> that is released by the when the female moth is ready to mate.<\/p>\n
\nAs we said in Part 1<\/a>, once you see one pantry moth flying around your kitchen it’s time to focus on getting rid of all the pantry moths you haven’t seen yet. By now the Pantry Moths have moved from egg, to larvae to Pupae and now you have adult pantry moths. Pantry Moths who just want to start the pantry moth life cycle all over.
\nControlling a pantry moth infestation is the key when figuring how to get rid of moths. Our focus is on getting rid of moths particularly pantry moth infestation control: how to get rid of moths naturally, including use of pantry pest moth traps<\/a> and some folk remedies.<\/p>\nAbout Pantry Moths<\/h2>\n
Getting rid of Moths : Moth Control<\/h2>\n
\nnatural pantry moth control<\/a> is the preferred moth approach, but sometimes you just can’t control moths. In those cases you need to need a safe, insecticide free way to take back control of your kitchen. The simple solution : pantry pest traps<\/a>.<\/p>\nSigns of a Pantry Moth Infestation<\/h3>\n
Cleaning : The key to beating Pantry Moths<\/h3>\n
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\nIf you find webbing, wash it with vinegar.<\/li>\nPantry Moths Ongoing Control<\/h3>\n
Pantry Moth Phermone Traps<\/h4>\n