Customer Reviews

Safer Brand 05140 The Pantry Pest Trap, 2 Traps

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We had been plagued with pantry moths for MONTHS, and were getting at our wits ends. They were everywhere! I checked every food item we had and threw some away, cleaned the cupboards, but nothing I did even put a dent in the amount of moths we had. When I found some information online about these pantry moth traps, I then came here to Amazon to read the reviews. I was torn after reading that the newer versions were said to not work, but I was also desperate. When I received this, I set up one of the traps in our kitchen on top of one of the hanging cabinets, and was amazed that in only about a week, our problem was solved! I wish I would have tried this at the beginning and saved us a LOT of stress. I would HIGHLY recommend these traps to anyone... they work!

If your pantry is inundated with moths (or weevil-types) - this trap will take care of the moths that hatch after you clean out your pantry. With the long life cycle that these pests have - you need something to catch new ones. Even if you clean out your food and put everything kept in storage containers there may still be some rogue eggs (you would be amazed at what these pests like to lay their eggs in!) I found eggs in clean brown lunch sacks. It wouldn't even be unreasonable to use these traps before you have a pest problem. Very safe!

Yes, the moth pheromone wafers are very effective at attracting moths. No, the traps are not very good at catching them. I have tried these, and many similar brands, all with the same problem. Here's what you do: Buy the pest trap. Take out the pheromone wafer and throw away the rest. Buy a fly paper ribbon (maybe fifty cents) and hang it up. Stick the two pheromone wafers on the fly ribbon, about a foot apart. This will catch meal moths for weeks, and will stay sticky even with dozens of moths on it.

No question, this is an effective product. Using pheramones [sic.] to attact moths then trap them with sticky paper appeal to my love of science and technology.

Today, the product is already folded into a triangular house for the moths to fly into. The interior is coated with adhesive so the moths become trapped after entering the house. Users must removed a pheramone-infused tab from a sealed package, then insert the tab into a slot to get it inside the housing. But almost always, the tab falls out of its intended spot and is stuck to the interior. I've used it this way and it seems to work fine, but the manufactuer can help users by making three changes in the way they package the product.

1. make the little pheramone-infused tab already correctly positioned and attached to the interior so that users don't have to open the sealed package and handle the tab.

2. They should cover the whole item, including the sticky paper, with wax paper, score where the folds go, and indicate how to fold it into the housing shape. Then users would just have to peel the whole wax sheet off to expose the sticky paper and the pheramone tab, fold it up, and voila, done!

This way, the manufacturer can also save on packaging by shipping the items in a flat envelope rather than a mostly empty box.

3. Make the sticky housing attachable to something so it doesn't knock around my pantry. This can be as simple as a hole to hang it on a nail, or a weak adhesive like that used on Post-it notes to attach the trap to a wall.

Woodstream 05140 Safer Pantry Pest Trap (2 per box)

I have had great results with this product. Those who say they work for a while and then quit need to remember that the traps are only meant to catch flying stages of the insect. I use these traps once or twice a year, whenever I see a moth or two, once the infestation problem has been solved.

1) Use Pantry Pest Traps to eliminate all ADULT moths.

2) Next, go on a larva hunt (in the early stages they look like caraway seeds -- dark little crescent shapes about 1/8" long). Check all the food in your cabinets. Take it all out. Anything can house larva. Look in the flour, cereals, boxes, bags, anything with a seam or crevice. Think like a mother -- she is trying to hide her young so that they will survive!

3) We have a pantry cabinet with adjustable shelves. When moths kept coming back, I got a flashlight and discovered that there was larva in every single hole for the shelf brackets. Swabbing the holes with a cotton swab dipped in alcohol produced mixed results, so I finally placed a piece of tape over each hole. If the larva survived the alcohol, they starved to death in their little cell.

Using this method, I buy traps when moths come in with the groceries. I use canvas shopping bags that I wash every now and then so that the bags from the store (especially paper bags) don't bring in larva.

The trap worked well when it came with a square bait package that was fit into the back slot. The bait was changed to a square pink piece that sticks to the inside of the trap
It is compltely ineffective. Moths fly all aroound the pantry. infest boxes of food, and never go near the trap. If you trap a moth in there yourself, it doesnt stick to the glue, and flies right back out.
I have made this known to the Safer mfg. co. as soon as they changed the bait but they have done nothing.We have wasted about $100 on these traps in the past year. Have found nothing to replace it since other companies are using the same kind of bait.

For some reason [unknown to me] I find these traps to be more effective when the pantry door is closed. Maybe the natural air circulation in an open room dilutes the pheromone scent. Anyway these traps have been VERY effective at stopping several infestations within a week. I now keep a couple on hand and bring them out when I see moths flying about. The package says they should be replaced every three months.

I found I had moths in my kitchen. Looked up on internet, and found these strips available. They work ... that is all I know.

I have been buying the Pantry Pest Trap for years, and they used to work very well, effectively luring moths with the provided lure and trapping them in liberally applied sticky adhesive that coated the entire surface of the inside of a well designed cardboard trap. The lure used to fit into a slot on the back of the trap, and the edges of the trap bent upward and in, to make it harder for moths to get back out. Well, a couple years ago they changed the lure to a little piece of pink rubber or plastic that you just dropped onto the sticky area. I immediately noticed that the lure wasn't NEARLY as effective as the old one was. Additionally, edges no longer bent upwards, and the sticky area inside the trap had shrunk significantly, so moths could escape more easily. I just bought a box a week ago, and I never will again. While they have kept the box the same size, they have shrunk the sticky portion to such a small area, these things aren't going to catch much of anything. Of course, I guess that may be the point - since these won't hold many moths anymore, you'll have to replace them more often. I'll be looking for an alternative, because they aren't worth wasting anymore money on.

This pest trap is working pretty well for me. I've had moths for a few years now. They seem to come out mostly on summer nights. I threw out almost all my food last year, yet they continue to show up. I finally got sick of spending every evening swatting 5-7 moths. Now with the trap, I only have to chase down 1-2 moths each night, if any. I've found that location really does matter though. One trap I placed on a bookshelf and caught nothing after several weeks. I moved it just 5 feet away to another shelf, and now it's catching plenty of bugs. So if you aren't getting as many bugs caught as you would expect, try moving the trap. Anyway, this product isn't solving my pest issue, as I still have some floating around, but it's certainly helping a great deal.