This is my 2nd month in germany and I finally met one of these in my room today, it actually dropped yesterday night but i dismissed it as a normal bug, today morning I found it and another one in my cieling, killed both, and now I’ve bought pheromone glue traps, my room is not big and the dried things I have consist of bread, Kelloggs, still packaged rice and bsisa flour (roasted wheat tunisian flour, in a pretty hard and tight plastic sacchetto), ho anche spezie sigillate. Ho intenzione di lanciare il pane e i kellogg, proteggendo il blour/riso bsisa, aspirando il posto e usando le trappole per colla. C’è qualcosa che devo fare? Prego che siano appena venuti ieri dalla finestra
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di typh0nic
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You need Schlupfwespen (parasitoid wasps). The pheromone traps only indicate the infestion. The Schlupfwespenlarven kill the moths.
It‘s biological warfare in our kitchen.
Just as heads up, those things will eat trough almost anything except glass. And sometimes they come WITH the grain from store 🙃
It’s painful to do, but after my experience with pantry moths I would just throw out every potential target food (even if sealed — they can chew through plastic) and start afresh. Also invest in hard plastic containers with a tight seal for storing flour, cereals, biscuits, etc.
how sealed or how hard the plastic container of some dried goods is, doesn’t really matter – from my experience, those little pests will find their way into *everything*. when a friend had them, the only solution for him was to throw out everything that could’ve been contaminated and do a proper cleaning of his kitchen, wiping out the cabinets and cleaning every surface basically.
As others said, the best remedy are Schlupfwespen (Ichneumon wasps), they are so small that you can barely see them and they go for the moth’s larvae, to stop the problem at it’s root. Not very expensive, they come on little paper cards that you just put in a cabinet and then forget about it. Works really well