Larvae feed on flour and meal products, dried fruits, nuts, bird food and dried pet foods. As the larva feeds, it spins a web, leaving behind a silken thread wherever it crawls.

Pantry moths or Indian meal moths are small insects with wings that are rusty brown or almost bronze in color. ... Pantry moth larvae are most often found in infested food, ...

Use natural repellents like rosemary, thyme, cedar, lavender, or peppermint oil applied to sachets or wood blocks to deter pantry moths. Hang traps to attract the moths with pheromones and catch them ...

Answer: It sounds like your mom’s kitchen has a healthy population of Indian meal moths. You are seeing the adults, the flying moths and the wormy larvae. There are probably meal-moth eggs and ...

A: Indian meal moths, Plodia interpunctella, cannot reproduce for generations without food, be it cereal products, dried fruit, dehydrated vegetables, nuts, candy or dog food.The life cycle, from ...

I have pantry moths in my kitchen. Again. I had them couple of years ago, got everything cleaned up and didn’t see any more until last month. All at once there were lots of them. I thought I was ...

DEAR JOAN: Over the past six months I have found a half dozen of what look like quarter-inch-long pieces of gray fuzzy lint on the walls around my house. At first I thought that was exactly what ...

Question: I opened a bag of rice and discovered several small tiny light-colored worms. Lately, I also have noticed moths which I thought was unusual for this time of year.

Indian meal moth larvae (or caterpillars) feed on any grain or grain product (flour, cornmeal, oatmeal, grits, etc.), seeds (including bird seed and dried beans), chocolate, dried fruit (such as ...

Pantry moths or Indian meal moths are small insects with wings that are rusty brown or almost bronze in color. ... Pantry moth larvae are most often found in infested food, ...