Customer Reviews

Pantry Moth Traps - Set of Two

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We've had problems with Indian Meal Moths for three years now, on and off. We have a parrot, and they first arrived in a bag of seed. Despite repeated attempts of thoroughly cleaning out all of my cabinets, throwing out food and spices, keeping the bird's cage clean, changing his food (and keeping it in the freezer), keeping the dog food in a closed container, vacuuming the ceiling multiple times every day, washing down canned goods, moving out appliances and many other attempts to try to finally get rid of these annoying pests, I am at the point of getting insecticides. These traps are great, with reservations. Yes, when you remove them from the package, you are swarmed, depending on how many moths you currently have, but they only attract the male moths. The females are not attracted. They also do nothing for the worms. There are four cycles to these little buggers: egg, larvae (worm), cocoon, and moth. We suck up those nasty worms constantly with the vacuum (don't forget to change the bag or empty the canister). Don't get the wrong idea, it's not like we have a million of them - they come in cycles. We get worms for a few weeks, with minimal moths, and we suck up maybe 10 - 15 worms in the morning then the same amount after work and a few more here and there during the evening. But we make sure none that we see turn into cocoons. Since we still get more moths, they are obviously turning into cocoons somewhere! Then we see just the moths for awhile, sometimes in fairly large numbers, then they tend to dwindle. Then the whole thing starts up again. We don't see any of them in the winter. At that point, I tear the kitchen & dining room apart and clean like mad, getting rid of all of their favorite foods in the cabinets, but somehow, it doesn't seem to matter, because they come back again every year. So if you have them, these traps are great, but if the infestation has recently started just get on top of it really fast. And get rid of their food source so their life cycle is interrupted. If you can do that, you can get rid of them. That's something I haven't been able to do. They like flour, pasta, cereals, cornmeal, spices, dry pet foods, especially bird seed, dried fruits and flowers (including decorative wall hangings), and even rodent bait, among other things. I have to go online and order more of these pheromone traps now, but I have also decided, reluctantly, after doing some research, to purchase an insect growth regulator (hydroprene - to take care of the worms) and an insecticide (esfenvalerate - for the egg stage). I don't know any brand names and I didn't want to go this far, but I've had enough. My infestation is too long running for just these traps, food source removal and cleaning. I hope you have better luck than I've had! These traps are a great first step, but don't stop here. Get rid of their food and clean, clean, clean!

Recently my wife and I noticed small white worms crawling on our kitchen ceiling and small moths flying around also. I could tell they were coming from the pantry. I took all the food out and found they were feeding on dog food that had fell into the pantry floor. I went to walmat and bought a food safe insect killer. I soon found these moths leave very small eggs in places you wouldn't believe. Dispite cleaning the pantry and throwing out any food in bags that could contain eggs,and spraying the food safe insect killer the months would still appear, morning or night on the kitchen ceiling or pantry ceiling. At wits end, I removed the molding in the pantry and found eggs there. Next I read the reviews on Pro Pest and purchased 1 package. It comes with a small bag with a red paper attractant which you place in the triangle housing (very easy to do) I set it on the floor and the next morning found 5 moths stuck dead in the trap. 2 moths the next day and 1 moth the following day. I reinstalled the molding placed the food back into the pantry, threw away the trap with the months, installed a new trap on the floor and kept it there just encase. So far its been 1 week with no moths and even if a missed egg hatches, I'm sure the pro pest trap will attract them. Great Product!

My pantry moths originated from my birds and have spread from there. These moth traps work great. You must be ready to place the traps prior to opening the package. As soon as the plastic is removed, the moths began swarming around me! The traps do a wonderful job at catching the live moths. In doing so they prevent them from breeding. However, the larvae that have yet to hatch aren't attracted and may never be since the trap can be full and/or the pheromones could be faded by time they hatch. These traps won't work completely unless you buy enough to stop multiple life cycles or completely clean out all of your cabinets, bird seeds and "nesting" sites. Sadly, I've missed some and am starting over again! These are the only traps that I will use in my quest for moth freedom!

I love these moth traps--they started catching moths right away and they last longer than other traps I've tried. Highly recommended!

We've had a problem with pantry moths for almost a year. I bought one kind of trap,and it caught moths, but there were still more flying around the house. We believed they couldn't all have been females. So we bought three different products at a time to test which one worked the best. This one trapped far more moths than the other two combined. I'm no scientist but I think that's because the entire inside of the trap is sticky with pherones instead of one little teeny square on one side of the trap. There's also a bigger opening--those little guys are clumsy fliers. So for our house,this one solved the problem.

This product really works. The moment I got the Pro Pest out of its plastic pack, moths started flying around its periphery. In one night one of the Pro Pest attracted more than 10 moths!

This product works as advertised! As soon as I took the traps out of the plastic, nearby moths started going crazy for the (undetectable, to me) scent. The product states that it works for 60 days, so I kept the traps out for 60 days and then put out new ones to catch the (very few) remaining stragglers. The reason the traps needed to be kept out for so long is not because the traps are not immediately effective but because of the life cycle of the moths - new ones were apparently still being hatched for awhile (yuck).
Anyway, I definitely recommend this product. The only downside is that they have to be kept out in the open, so you can see all the dead and dying moths, which to me was both sad and gross. We kept ours fairly high up so they weren't as noticable. I liked that they were both non-toxic and effective. I would buy them again (although hopefully I won't ever need to) and recommend them to anyone else with a pantry moth problem.

I have tried several other brands. This is the first brand to wipe out the moth population.

Fantastic product. Went from a house infested with moths to never seeing any in a few weeks. And only used 1 of the 2 traps in the packet.

We've had an Indian Meal Moth problem in our garage for the last 2-3 months. They are EVERYWHERE. I would vaccum them up, only to find more the next day. We went through and cleaned everything that we could, but they just kept popping up. We bought a pack of these and they have been out for 10 minutes. We've already caught 15 moths!!! The second I walked into the garage with the traps, there was a swarm of moths around--it was truly shocking. I'll post a follow-up in a few weeks. So far, the traps work as described! Another reviewer noted that you should handle these traps with gloves and immediately throw the packaging away. I would agree! I opened the envelope in my office and now have a random moth or two fluttering around in here (even though I took everything out to the trash).