Aeroxon Xon071 Food Moth Trap Single Pack (Contains 2 traps)

I have been plagued by food moths for about a year now. At first I noticed just one or two tiny moths flying around the kitchen, didn't know what they were but managed to catch them eventually by hand - although they are masters at flying around you just out of reach! But then I noticed more and more, and not just in the kitchen, until one day I went to use some walnuts from an opened bag in the food cupboard and found them covered in a lacy weblike stuff and crawling in maggots. I was actually physically sick and even now can't open a bag of walnuts with inspecting them thoroughly. I then also found wriggling things in an open bag of rice, although they were hard to see as they look like grains of rice, and an abundance of lacy webby stuff and maggots in a bag of bird seed under the sink and also in a packet of cereal! I went mad, I cleared out all my cupboards and threw away any opened packets of food stuff and cleaned all the cupboards with bleach. But I still kept finding the pesky things flying around so did some research on the internet and discovered this product along with several other moth traps.The traps do work. I put two out and after a week they had caught about 20 each. They supposedly contain a smell that attracts the male moth, but I think the silly things just fly into them in the dark. Some animal lovers might not like the fact that you have to watch the moths flapping around for a day or so, trying to get off, but I'm so sick of them now I don't care.The number of moths in my kitchen has now diminished but I am not totally rid of them so I still leave the traps out, I just don't catch so many now. I also try to keep my cupbords scrupously clean of crumbs and only buy food in small packets that I can transfer into sealed containers once opened. Having read other comments on the internet, it appears the bugs are often already in food when it leaves the supermarket, especially flour and similar products. Enough to put me off home baking!

Moth infestations are appalling. I've had clothes moth problems in the past but a couple of months ago I started having a moth problem in the kitchen. It took me a while to figure out what was going on, by which time they were firmly established and breeding rampantly.There's no instant cure-all solution to food moths and it requires a multi-pronged approach. A thorough clean of all cupboards and draws with disinfectant, an obsessional watch-out for tiny caterpillars and their nests (usually hanging from walls and ceilings) and throwing out all susceptible food that could have been used for laying eggs (flour, rice, oats, cereals, chocolate, bird food etc) and the deployment of airtight (preferably clip-shut) boxes are all necessary. Removing a food source for the larvae is vital, or you'll never get rid of them, so sealing things away from them is essential. The moth traps are part of the armoury that you will need to successfully wipe them out.I was so horrified that I went a bit mad and bought moth traps made by four different manufacturers (my experience with clothes moths having indicated that some brands are more effective than others). The Aeroxon was by far the most effective. Not only did it catch many more moths than other brands, but the sticky backing that lets you affix it to the inside of cupboard doors etc actually works (two of the other brands fell off almost immediately).Note that the traps work by attracting male moths to a pheromone. This means that it does not trap the females, and they can continue to lay eggs, so it is a long-term job to use the traps to undermine the entire breeding population. But keep going with it, and it gets there eventually.They need to be replaced every six weeks and there is a place on the trap that lets you write in a replacement date reminder, which is handy.If you are unfortunate enough to have food moth problems, my sympathies and I wish you the best of luck resolving the situation. From my own experience, this should help.

Came a bit of a surprise to open the cupboard where I keep my pet food to have a couple of moths flutter out. Thought nothing of it at first just, 'oh they must have come through the window looking for a safe place to hide'. Wrong, the little swines had inflitrated my home in a bag of contaminated sunflower seeds, no idea that the slight amount of webbing mixed in with the hulls was from them.After a visible increase in their number and finding a grub inching across my worktop and one inside a cuboard door (scream issued with a on the spot dance worthy from a Tom and Jerry cartoon). War was declared!The only method recomended to use (after web browsing, God bless THOSE type of webs) is to thoroughly clean every cupboard with bleach and throw out any open packets of food, anything that looks suspect, BIN IT. Store your foods in airtight containers rather than the packets.Use the traps to stop them producing more, break up the cycle.Remove the males, the females dont lay eggs, no eggs no grubs, no grubs no moths .. you get the idea.Also you will have to kill the little blighters. Say a prayer, offer up a candle but you will have to. It will speed up the removal of them.Can say got rather an expert in towel flick ninja attack and a daily workout of chair jumping to squish any on ceiling or higher up the walls in awkward places. You may get a slight nervous twitch scanning corners and cupboards daily (okay several times a day) But stick with it though, stick with it.. can say after several weeks of this approach the numbers have dropped dramatically until this past couple of weeks nothing .... nothing flying, crawling ... nothing.....Brought another pack just in case a few late arrivals to the party show up but they can be beaten!! Muwhahaha ....they can be beaten.