Safer Brand 05140 Pantry Moth Pest Trap and Killer for Grain, Flour, Meal and Seed Moths - 2 Traps

My moth infestation started with my cockatiel's food (I think) and spread so fast I'm still not sure I've found all the larvae-friendly nooks in my apartment. I'm still baffled why I find them hovering around in my bathroom!But my poor housekeeping aside, I stood in the kitchen, opened the sealed bait packet, and dropped it onto the sticky trap. Instantly two moths were circling. A couple hours later there were ten or twelve stuck in the glue. After a week it was covered with them and I had to dispose of it.The key with these infestations is breaking the lifecycle. You have to get rid of the moths before they can reproduce, which means you need to keep catching the boys for at least a couple weeks, and doing it before the girls can exercise their charms. The best advice is to employ both a trap like this and a larvae insecticide that you apply to your walls in any room where you think the infestation started up near the ceiling. This is because when the larvae hatch they crawl upwards. They hit the insecticide barrier and die (or become unable to cocoon, I don't recall which -- same effect either way).The insecticide is very effective, I've successfully eliminated these moths in the past with it. However, it is also toxic to just about every living thing -- including your pets and you. So I hate using it in the kitchen.The third thing you must do (and which I've been lax on) is find and get rid of EVERYTHING that's infested. The infestation is obvious. The larvae form small cocoons usually in the corners of boxes and walls (look up at the angle between your wall and ceiling). But they'll also eat their way into envelopes, like packets of taco seasoning. You can spot the tiny round hole. They like dry goods, and I've even found then in soap powder. Zipper closure bags aren't effective -- they can chew through them. They can also worm their way inside of twist cap tops on jars and I recently found them inside a can of McCann's Steel Cut Oatmeal where the metal lid was firmly shut. Maybe in that case they got in when I had the can open to make oatmeal (I do not mean to suggest that the oatmeal was infested when bought it). Put dry goods into firmly sealed hard plastic or glass containers.And the final thing to do is freeze the suspect foods. Any bag of bird food that enters my apartment goes right into the freezer for at least three days. That kills the eggs. If you can keep things like flour and cereal in the fridge you'll have better luck, too.This product as an excellent part of a moth eradication program. The box contains two, and you should use them both one after the other (don't set them up in two places at once, that confuses the moths) in addition to my other steps above.

Trap is good for catching moths, appears to work well. Very effective.

We experienced a very annoying infestation of pantry moths over the past few months. Apparently they came in on some bulk oat bran that I purchased some time ago, and I didn't realize it because after the purchase, I changed my diet and wasn't eating oat bran for quite a while. At the time I bought it, I put most of it in an air tight container, but couldn't fit it all in, so the surplus was just in a plastic bag, which I stored in an open container. We were noticing these little moths in our home, but thought they were just coming in from the outside when we opened the doors, etc. When I finally went to use the oat bran, a moth flew out out of the air tight container and, of course, I threw that bunch away, but I had forgotten about the surplus. So the moths continued to plague us, and I finally made the connection and realized they must be coming out of that cupboard. I took everything out and was shocked to find moths and larvae on the cupboard walls, in my dishtowels, etc. I washed everything down and bleached the towels. But we were still getting moths! So I bought these traps to put in that cupboard. One day I even put a little LED light in the cupboard ALL DAY in case the moths couldn't FIND the trap! That evening when I opened the cupboard, a moth was sitting by the door of the cupboard, but NONE were on the trap! So much for the LURE! Today I took everything out of the cupboard again and found where they were hiding - INSIDE a closed salad spinner that I haven't used for years! I don't even know how they could have gotten in there, but needless to say, the spinner is in the garbage, and everything has been cleaned and disinfected again, but the traps are history. They were worthless.

I have been buying these for years and they work well (depressing to see how much they catch sometimes). I recently bought a new two pack locally. They are WHITE and shout out “hey I have BUGS in my food”. Which is great if you don’t want human visitors. I have no idea why companies feel the need to “update” a product that was functional in its traditional “blend in” form. It also feels more flimsy. I will report back if they don’t catch moths well. In the meantime Safer, it would be great if you scrapped the color experiment and went back to the old look.

Works well. Attracts the males to break the breeding cycle. I have also caught stink bugs and other pest in it. These little Moths are horrible and can be in the larval stage a long time, even years. Even if you have polyester clothes in your closet that are not clean, they will go after the spilled food, your hair, and body oils. They are attracted to the keritin so that is why they are bad with wool, silk, leather, feathers, etc. anything organic in clothes and oriental carpets. So you think they are gone and then you see one flying around. Once infested, it is a process to get them under control. Vacuum well your closets, crevices, fronts and backs of carpets (you may see a spidery web on the back and corners of your carpets - that is them!) wash and clean everything and even put in garbage bags and freeze for 3 months. Some things are so bad you just have to throw away or burn. These traps help tremendously to maintain the war against them. I still see them now and again, but I have no further damage to my clothes and carpets. I think I see the females looking for love, but their men are trapped.

Didn’t seem to work.