Thursday, May 17, 2007

Moths





We have moths! There I have said it, WE have moths. The moths are small and I think feed off flour products of some sort. There used to be just a few flying laizily in the air of the front room drifting in front of the TV screen now and then. But in the past few weeks something has happened and their numbers are growing at what seems an exponential rate! When the little buggers choose to take flight and they take flight all at once the room’s air becomes littered with these little mothy fliers. These moths just sort of scamper through the air, they do not zip or flit just hover. If you leave a drink out, uncovered for any length of time one can be-assured that soon the surface of their beverage will soon be littered with floaters.

We have lived with this vexation for more then a year now but never have the insects been this bad. I have been leaving the doors to the house open in hopes that little beggars well fly out and leave us be but that has not happened yet. The other option we have yet to consider is the “bug bomb” approach…empting a can of

2 comments:

riptideselkie said...

I had that problem once. They are actually weevils. Or whatever you call weevils when they grow up from being gross little worm things.The only thing that got rid of them was going through all of my kitchen cupboards and tossing all of my flour and other dry goods, cleaning out the cupboards, and starting over on supplies. I haven't had any problems since. Bug bomb might work, but any babies that might be hiding away in old flour might come back after a while. I hope you find a solution. Love you and miss you! Shelle

Meadowlark's Mind said...

Thanks shell--talk with you soon