Invasion of the Moths (don't watch before a meal)

(WARNING! This video is not for the squeamish.) For a while during the summer, I had a problem with moths infesting the foodstuffs in my pantry. Solving this was mostly a matter of enclosing their favourite targets (like cereals and grains) in jars with tight-fitting lids. This video shows the discovery which revealed to me that one type of container I'd been using was not up to the task. Moth larvae were present in abundance, nestled in a wispy spun material not unlike candy floss, only much creepier. This discovery explained the mysterious persistence of the fluttery moths despite what I'd thought were my best efforts to eliminate them.

It was horrific, yet strangely fascinating.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• kitchen
• bugs
• moths

[cosmocanuck]

Thanks for the tips - I managed to solve my problem, but others will surely benefit from your advice!

[caprisurfer]

those things have got in 2 boxes of my cereal already.

they got in an unopened box of raisin bran

it's crazy

[cosmocanuck]

Hey caprisurfer, hopefully some of the solutions on this page will help you. Keep us posted!

[streetcornerfilms]

UGH!

we have the same problem!

UGH!

what did you do to fix this? I HATE IT!

thanks.

[cosmocanuck]

I had to put all my rice, grains etc. into glass jars. And not just any glass jars, but ones with nice snug lids. The one in the video was plastic with a somewhat flimsy lid; the little buggers got in. My new ones do the job.

[ilovemyfamilyg83]

Well i found and solved my problem today. i have this cabinet in my basement that i have'nt been in for years and i noticed these things coming out of the cracks of it. i get the willies, open it up and there all in my cabinet crawling and hanging 0_o. there were about 1-2 hundred all over some old boxes of pastas, rice, cake mixes, cereals, etc. so f-cking gross i almost passed out. food got tossed, larve got doused and murdered with bleach, and now they're freezing outside in the garbage cans.

[TPASAS92]

We have some kind of jack-of-all-trades moth infestation currently. We found a nest inside our bird cage, at the bottom rim where they had been eating either the pellets or the seed shells on the bottom. We got rid of that and washed it thoroughly, and now apparently they moved to the pantry because my mother found a bag of oatmeal full of webbings and eggs. Hopefully after we clean out the pantry we'll get rid of them but they are persistant little fuckers.

[rolficus]

i cleaned my pantry out today and vacumed any litle silky webs i could find in all the crevices i chuckd alot of things out that had any hint of their sacks then used metholated spirits cloth and wiped down the entire pantry i then used surface spray and hit every corner ceiling line i could find then waited 4 hours before returning my sealed food back into the pantry chances are we already ate food they had been touching ah well extra protein i got 90% of em i will use sticky traps for the rest

[Khaied345]

Shit I'm having a meal a minute later. Seriously

[daffydoug]

I went on a one man manhunt against mine. I took a wet wash rag, and everywhere I saw one, I whacked it and rinsed it down the sink. I targeted HUNDREDS of the little fuckers.

[lotsofgametime]

My grandmother got these from bird seed at Sams Club.

[kaoruneko16]

SERIOUSLY?!?!?!?! I would be so angry at nature...

[SeikoPsycho]

*** BARF ***

[bingramtube]

YUp thats them. I don't like killing other life forms but these little guys really do piss me off.

[IamSoGeee]

i freakin hate these moths! Theyre everywhere, and starting to spread around the house. Im filipino, and we have rice as a base for our food so we basically eat rice everyday. But im about to quite cause i find the larvae squirming everywhere in the rice. its so disgusting! and im too scared to walk into my pantry lol!

[rasmus1madness]

wow...mmaannn those things look freaky! good video tho! 5*****