When you have to deep-clean the dry ingredients cabinet, because every now and then there are moths flying in the room and turns out that's the place of origin...
A while back A lovingly sent a package containing some yummi food we would have enjoyed tremendously. If only it weren't for the fact that any parcel takes quite a while to get here, and in the process of, undergoes adventures of various sorts and being subjected to a whole spectrum of temperatures. Meaning that by the time we got it, some of the food had developed new life forms and had to take a short trip straight into the trashbin. Some of the rest was eaten, some stored.
Fun part started when about a month later I looked in the tightly wrapped package containing rose-petal-wrapped turkish delight and found in it a rather intricate web of white nests and fluttering moths. Allllllrighty, yukkk and out the door you go and that's that.
Except, well, it wasn't - because that's when the moths started appearing in random places in the apartment. (And, you know, these guys leave nasty-dusty stains when smacked on their hindsides.) The next clue in the mystery was obtained just a bit ago, when a packet of crisps in the food cabinet turned out to have an empty larva shell attached to the outside.
So - suggestions on how to reliably clean stuff of moth eggs?
Am really-really keeping fingers crossed here that there weren't enough of them to start a real colony and also that since they travelled with food (and rose petals) then perhaps they are not the kind that would want to eat our entire wardrobe...
Cheers,
Hedi
