Moths

[Eric Sprick]

Really like the Rubbermaid, etc. containers.  Nothings getting in there and cheap!
My wife has seemingly built a replica of The Great Wall in our basement with them full of clothes.

Eric.

[Day Dreamer]

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05599.html


Happy Holidays,

Ernest

[obsidian]

Moths aren't the only thing that will eat clothes... I know this because we moved into a house last june and it had silverfish!  It was really frustrating to put on socks or a shirt only to find weird holes in them.  Those thing are gross... never had seen one until then.  The thing that worked to get rid of them was boric acid.  Everything else just killed a few but they would be back.

[JockC]

I have a recipe for an herbal repellent of about six different herbs.  I mixed a batch up, and seventeen years later it's still working for my fly-tying stuff.  I remember rosemary as being one of the ingredients.  I could dig it out if people are interested.

Mostly, I use plastic containers.  I did lose one good cowboy hat, though.  Moths like dirt, and there was no shortage of dirt and sweat on it.

Another fly-tying tip: if you have a small article that you think has eggs or larvae on it, put it in the microwave for a few seconds.  End of problem.

[hawkeye n pa]

I have had good luck with a product called Moth Blok.  They advertise that the "vapors quickly vanishes when articles are aired".  

And I agree.

[chubber]

I do the same as Bjorn, split broken shafts and scrape them with a pocket knike every three months or so to getem smelling again.