get em out

[dr greg]

true story: I opened my 'high-end" aloha shirt cupboard last night, and to my shock and horror, a bloody great moth flew out,obviously not worried by the camphor protection system I have in there...I can't spray chemicals on each one for various obvious reasons, and inspecting each shirt for virtually invisible eggs is impossible, so I've hung them all out to get the setting sun on them...dunno what else to do, but it can't hurt them, and is my only hope.

 

[Feraud]

A nice collection and good luck with the moths. I assumed the chemicals would take care of the problem. This is a good reminder for everyone to periodically clean out the closets!

 

[dr greg]

protection

As the camphor laurel tree, which is native to China and the source of all the mothballs in the world, is a pest weed in plague proportions on my own property and the entire district, I have no shortage of the stuff and the cupboard is full of fresh chips as well as plenty of commercial naphthalene, but it didn't seem to worry this bugger.
I can't bring myself to spray insecticide on them due to the hydrocarbon propellant.
Any old wive's remedies out there?

 

[Harp]

Toss 'em in the deep freezer for several days. Freeze the little
buggers! Nice veranda Greg.

 

[epr25]

I agree freeze them out! We've had to do this several times.

 

[dr greg]

nice idea

But I don't have one, I'm a fresh food guy. the sunlight will have to do it or maybe iron them all carefully
Thanks for the verandah comment, it surrounds the house on three sides and is 10 foot wide, I need it to take in the vista to the NW as I sip me G&T in a squatter's chair at day's end

 

[Harp]

What a gorgeous wonderful view. Reminds me of Hawaii.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

whoa! massive misconception about what this thread was going to be about.

Bad luck on the moths. I freeze everything vintage that comes into the house. If you don't have a freezer, i don't know what to do.

bk

p.s. clothes moths are really small. What you had was probably no danger to your clothes. Moths just like dark places.

 

[dr greg]

mothman

I thought all moths were dangerous to clothes, I wasn't aware there were specific varieties that liked cotton or wool etc.
Maybe I panicked but some of those shirts are worth 100's each, so I sprang into action, having a good airing won't hurt them anyway.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

As far as i know there's only one that eats clothing. I've only ever seen one of the larvae crawling across a beautiful 30s tie. Needless to say that tie didn't get purchased. I've never seen an adult clothes moth.

I panicked myself last year when we started seeing all these little moths flying around the house. This is when i learned the freezer trick. Apparently used by musea to deal with new items they get into stock. Turns out there were little blighters called parlour moths that had been breeding in one of our boxes of flour. whew, boy was i relieved . . .

bk

p.s. congrats on the ashes. seems to have been quite a series of aussie performances.

 

[dr greg]

it is cricket

The poms, as we call the english, have a rich history of being regularly beaten at the games they invented: soccer cricket tennis etc etc

 

[Harp]

The poms, as we call the english, have a rich history of being regularly beaten at the games they invented: soccer cricket tennis etc etc

Poms and Pomes eh? There must be a poem in there someplace.
Good show for AUS.