NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[rachelmanija]

Unopened bag of rice in pantry now includes dead moths. Goddammit!

Comments

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

ZARGH I SMITE TEH MOTHS FOR YOU.

...a little too late. Alas.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Oh no!

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

We've found that well-sealed freezer bags and/or hard plastic containers actually keep them out.

And that moth traps help, but do not entirely eliminate them.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Argh! My sympathies. *shudder*

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

i have given up on the whole thing! the traps do help as does throwing everything in your house away and especially all the food. They do evil things like, go up into the inside of the screw cap of totally random things like soy sauce. So taking everything food like apart and scrubbing it, if you don't throw it away.

ugh!

o well it is not so bad to eat a moth or two, adds protein?

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Is bad for *my* digestion. Sigh. In the past, I did find out moths had gotten into things precisely in that manner...

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

You're already eating them ground up in flour and the like. eww.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

*still mildly traumatized by 1977 "Book of Lists" list of how much mouse droppings, cockroach bits, and wasp legs were acceptable in foods according to U.S. FDA*

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Oh god I had to go and look

http://www.rateitall.com/t-21503-acceptable-levels-of-filth-in-food.aspx

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN'T MAKE ME LOOK.

*will not click, will not click*...

[faithhopetricks.livejournal.com]

ME NEITHER

OMG NO

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Please remember that if you're living in a climate where the little blighters thrive, they will also thrive in factories, warehouses and supermarkets. They don't have to be *your* moths, they might be somebody else's moths.

I found one the other day, too. Global warming? No thanks.

[quillori.livejournal.com]

Although sadly, even if they start out as somebody else's moths, they will generously consent to be your moths too. In my experience, this is so even if they are apparently all dead and came in an perfectly sealed container you have just opened for the first time. Or perhaps I just get special zombie moths?

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Once I realised that there were moths happily dancing outside my window, just dieing to come in, and that I was bringing moths in from the outside with all kinds of food, I stopped blaming myself for not having cleaned up enough and not having kept everything in appropriate containers - I *had done* my part, but they still came in from the outside.

I get the occasional one here - and I meet the occasional one outside - so while I still keep everything double-wrapped out of habit, I'm also aware that I might, at some point, have to deal with another infestation.

[tharain.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps I just get special zombie moths?

Zombie moths? ZOMG! ZOMBIE MOTHS!!!

"Wooooooool.......WOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!"

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

No, what you get is the eggs from the dead moths going 'Oooh! We have air and stuff now! Excellent!'

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

...at least they were dead?

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've had that! Unopened plastic is ineffective... I got some of those click-clack bins and put the unopened bags in those, and the problem has pretty much stopped.

I also stopped shopping at the groovy grocery store.

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

I've found moths in unopened boxes of corn muffin mix that I got at the market a week before. Very disturbing. After that happened a few times, I gave up on that brand.

I keep my rice in the freezer, which seems to help. Also my corn meal.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

At least they weren't zombie moths...

[tharain.livejournal.com]

"...when you know she would go with you....if there only were doors!"

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