Anyone Having Problems With Small Moths ?

Point noted- need to invest in more heavy duty stuff Accicaccyura & do it more often.

we have them too in our modern house in Gloucestershire, I'm not sure they are clothes moths because I got rid of most of my wool a few years ago and what I do have is wrapped in plastic. We don't have carpet. I buy those fly papers you hang up and are sticky that catches them but slowly

You could try buying flea spray for the home from the local vet.

Very powerful stuff. Kills every living insect and spider within miles! Well at least you’re home😄.

Don’t advise staying until while it is doing its work though.

Aveline

This is a plague!! I spray and spray and hoover yet still they come. This has been going on for years. We have a few blank patches in carpets now. and

Then you are indeed dealing with cloth moths and they will not only attack the carpet.

You need to get rid of that carpet quickly, or if you cannot bear to do so, hang it outside for a week or too and simply douse it in moth repellant.

While you are waiting to see if the moths stop laying there, you need to wash all clothes and soft furnishings, including pillows and eiderdowns that can be washed and send anything that cannot be washed to the dry-cleaners.

You can, if you like, take the opportunity to get rid of clothes you no longer often wear.

All clothes cupboards, drawers, storage boxes need to be washed well too. It is the moth larvae that do the damage, not the adult moths.

Remember too to check fur-line boots - these can be put in a plastic bag and left overnight in the freezer, as can anything else that can neither be washed or dry-cleaned.

Beloved old teddies and other soft toys are at risk too, so if you do not want Teddy to die of an attack of the moth, do check his or her fur/cloth very carefully.

The other variety of moth you want to get rid of, is the ones haunting the kitchen - they lay their eggs in flour, breadcrumbs etc.

The carpets are fully fitted throughout the flat! We have a cat so can't use too many chemicals. I just try to hoover ++ and spray and use the traps. I doubt I can do any more. It's only carpets they seem interested in though.

We have polypropylene carpet, that’s where I saw those grubs. The blighters will have go at any fabric 😩

It makes me feel just slightly better to know I am not alone !!!

We’ve had them for years -?havevtried everything, including the smoke bomb things in every room. I’ve still seen and killed a couple of the buggers recently. We have chunks chewed out of our carpets - yes, they’re mostly wool. I don’t really want hard floors but don’t fancy synthetic carpets either. But it’s high time we did something!

I've found in the past, that the best thing is the pheromone traps - they look like a cardboard triangle. Have a couple at floor level and a couple higher up. There are different ones for different kinds of moths but the carpet moth ones seem to catch all kinds of types. Also do you have any pets by any chance? Because they might not be clothes or carpet moths. Most pet foods contain moth eggs, not visible to the human eye. They are harmless until it gets quite warm then they can hatch out. Indian meal moth or pantry moth (but there may be others in there as well. These were the ones that worked for general moths (for clothes and carpet moths) www.amazon.co.uk/Pest-Stop-PSCMT-Clothes-Moth-Trap/dp/B000LNGS1G/ref=sr_1_6_pp?crid=2F66VUTFKL6LE&keywords=moth+traps&sprefix=moth+traps%2Caps%2C117&dib_tag=se&tag=gransnetforum-21&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MnAOI5T8DW_X8u1nCgct-Tl6NqERSVKEHu-OGxfRkKTTtZCs-3ozj5oaE3Oa3G728GMQYnHRItY0vfhebmjyH3b03Ozlaa2DcrcReTxwb823vpSoMVZ-VfqZtWj2_kSVVZHNf_vHmajdKTI1C5xf7IS9OeW-kV8LCFHxPtcwzwvf3t4t6BDqCsIzgaHIv0hCRJYFaLKukofUGI33fEr4RKrtTcJTvm8ELt9-aNG7T19JE3Ewbr3Z20doJ7SjNHN106eT3tbKY0L57Z8tsKdEtqCKTLBYUsgNXH8Zc906Ags.IxuoYU-pCJTZDfEdyX68iVEE9YOTz6K0tiSr4b-_g8w&qid=1748744688&sr=8-6

But it could be worth getting pantry moth traps as well just in case you different types. Different pheromones. The pheromones attract the female moths which stops them breeding and laying eggs because they do breed fast. A female pantry moth can lay up to 200 eggs a day.

www.amazon.co.uk/Dr-Killigans-Pheromone-Attractant-Insecticides/dp/B00U1SMPBS/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2F66VUTFKL6LE&keywords=moth%2Btraps&sprefix=moth%2Btraps%2Caps%2C117&th=1&dib_tag=se&tag=gransnetforum-21&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MnAOI5T8DW_X8u1nCgct-Tl6NqERSVKEHu-OGxfRkKTTtZCs-3ozj5oaE3Oa3G728GMQYnHRItY0vfhebmjyH3b03Ozlaa2DcrcReTxwb823vpSoMVZ-VfqZtWj2_kSVVZHNf_vHmajdKTI1C5xf7IS9OeW-kV8LCFHxPtcwzwvf3t4t6BDqCsIzgaHIv0hCRJYFaLKukofUGI33fEr4RKrtTcJTvm8ELt9-aNG7T19JE3Ewbr3Z20doJ7SjNHN106eT3tbKY0L57Z8tsKdEtqCKTLBYUsgNXH8Zc906Ags.IxuoYU-pCJTZDfEdyX68iVEE9YOTz6K0tiSr4b-_g8w&qid=1748744688&sr=8-9

This year for the first time my apple tree is covered in little hanging see through bags of wriggling soon to be moths. We have sprayed with bug spray but they are still wriggling. We have seen these in the wild but never in our garden.
Does anyone have any advice?

Aveline

The carpets are fully fitted throughout the flat! We have a cat so can't use too many chemicals. I just try to hoover ++ and spray and use the traps. I doubt I can do any more. It's only carpets they seem interested in though.

Having had carpet moths, I found holes in my lovely woollen scarves which were hanging in a cupboard downstairs.

Oh no. Must check.

silverlining48

This year for the first time my apple tree is covered in little hanging see through bags of wriggling soon to be moths. We have sprayed with bug spray but they are still wriggling. We have seen these in the wild but never in our garden.
Does anyone have any advice?

What about neem oil?

Witzend

We’ve had them for years -?havevtried everything, including the smoke bomb things in every room. I’ve still seen and killed a couple of the buggers recently. We have chunks chewed out of our carpets - yes, they’re mostly wool. I don’t really want hard floors but don’t fancy synthetic carpets either. But it’s high time we did something!

I had Jacaranda carpets upstairs, the chair that was probably carrying the little blighters, was in the same room as my lovely wool carpet 😩 probably having a field day chewing on that- switched to a good quality polypropylene but I’ve seen a few wandering around on my new carpet 😠

silverlining48

This year for the first time my apple tree is covered in little hanging see through bags of wriggling soon to be moths. We have sprayed with bug spray but they are still wriggling. We have seen these in the wild but never in our garden.
Does anyone have any advice?

Squash them?

I just wash them off with the hosepipe - seems to work.

They're gourmands that's for sure. Ruined my cashmere etc. Diatomaceous earth is very good, make sure it's food grade. It also kills bedbugs, silver fish etc., it's lethal and shreds them up but pretty harmless to humans. Wear a mask when distributing it. Also trichogamma parasitic wasps are meant to be very good, they're microscopic and die once feasted on the grubs but uber expensive. Museums & costume places use them.