I'd recommend PantryPest; it's a little box with a pheremone strip that you attach when you want to use it, and sticky stuff inside. The moths fly in and get stuck. Get a generous number of the boxes. Less bad for you than Raid, and pretty quick, too. I always have one or two in use just to catch the odd straggler, and I haven't had a horrible grub problem (ewwwwwww, you have my total sympathy) in years.
Around here, PantryPest is sold in co-ops and natural food stores.
Seconding the Pantry Pest trap rec, and along with the suggested vendors try checking the bug control sections of a good hardware/garden store, that's where I usually get mine.
Also, I suggest you ditch all boxed dry goods, open or not. They can lay eggs in the cardboard and stuff.
Yup. My sister had these; the solution is also to put all new dry goods in tupperware, or other impermeable containers. Ditch all your dry goods, empty all your shelves, and start from scratch.
Check everything you had in there - salt and baking soda and things like that (they are mineral-based) are about the only thing that I'd assume were safe. And you will have to police every day for a while. The grubs can chew through cardboard and thin plastics. Store stuff in cannisters that seal properly, glass jars with tight lids* that seal, or really heavy plastic ziplocs (the freezer kind). Even if they can't eat stuff, they will sometimes get into it to find a safe place to spin cocoons and hatch into moths.
*We had some grubs pupate up inside the threads of a spaghetti sauce jar lid! They hadn't managed to break the seal into the jar proper, though.
Ugh, yes, I've had problems with those nasty little buggers too. They can sometimes even worm their way into glass jars or Tupperware if you don't have them sealed up TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT, so check EVERYTHING. Even spices -- I've even caught the damn things cocooning inside tins of paprika!
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Around here, PantryPest is sold in co-ops and natural food stores.
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Yup. My sister had these; the solution is also to put all new dry goods in tupperware, or other impermeable containers. Ditch all your dry goods, empty all your shelves, and start from scratch.
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Oh, yuck, pantry moths! We had them last year ... .
See this, which sums it up pretty well.
Check everything you had in there - salt and baking soda and things like that (they are mineral-based) are about the only thing that I'd assume were safe. And you will have to police every day for a while. The grubs can chew through cardboard and thin plastics. Store stuff in cannisters that seal properly, glass jars with tight lids* that seal, or really heavy plastic ziplocs (the freezer kind). Even if they can't eat stuff, they will sometimes get into it to find a safe place to spin cocoons and hatch into moths.
*We had some grubs pupate up inside the threads of a spaghetti sauce jar lid! They hadn't managed to break the seal into the jar proper, though.
You have my deepest sympathies ... .
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