hi all,
okay. it's the dead of winter, subzero temps, and at least once a week i see a little moth flying around. for some reason, we've always refered to these little moths as "millers". small, grayish wings, shaped like a rectangular oval.
i'm assuming it's either a grain moth or a wool moth of some kind.
i do have a pantry in the basement, but everything is in jars; example, 10 lb bag of rice is broken down in quart jars with lids. same in my kitchen, everything is in jars. i don't buy packaged food, so there are no "meals-in-a-box" type of deal in the cabinets.
as far as clothing/household textiles:
we have wood or linoleum floors, no carpeting, and i make my own curtains, so they're all probably some kind of a cotten blend. i've aired out the throw rugs and taken down the curtains and shook them out outside. saw nothing.
i've just spent the better part of the last few days going through our closet and dressers, have a bag of stuff to take to the goodwill, and shook things out as i looked through them, and never saw a moth fluttering around.
i've never used mothballs, although i remember my grandmother did. what, do you just put a couple in a bowl, or make a sachet bag, and the smell kills the moths?
i do have 2 bookshelves of books, a lot of old hardbacks and leatherbound books. some are over a hundred years old. they're mostly cookbooks i collect. but i dust there and never seen a moth come flying out at me.
i'm not a neatnik, by any stretch of the imagination, so i'm not stressing out because things are not 100 percent. i'm not scared of bugs, either. i just know that where there's moths, there's a beetle before there was the moth, and that beetle has to be eating something, either grain or cloth.
any insights?
thanks for taking the time to read all this.
debbie
