Monkeybuttorama's Profile

I was fed up with my moth problem; I can't use chemicals (nor would I want to) because of my pets, and simply cleaning wasn't doing the trick at all, so I hunted and hunted for a solution.. What I found is a parasitic wasp called Trichogramma that is almost impossible to detect in your home (full-grown, they are about the size of a small grain of sand) which implants it's larvae in the eggs of pantry moths (along with appx 200 other species of insect). They are quite inexpensive (I paid $12.50 USD for 15 thousand larval wasps) and have been used in agricultural applications for many years with great success. Within a week, my moth population is way down. I was catching well over a hundred each day (I have birds as well as cats; it is almost impossible for me to keep my home as clean as is needed to rid an infestation) and now I tend to see only one or two flying about a night. Adding these wasps to your other cleaning habits (I would suggest releasing them every other week for 2-3, even 6 months, just to be sure you haven't missed a breeding cycle) works wonders, and when the food supply runs out (new moth eggs) they die. They do not infest if moths are not present. Please give them a try before introducing chemicals into your home. You won't be sorry.