SC - Moths

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I have had success by putting bay leaves in my flour cannister and anything I've 
ever had moths in.  Including rice and bisquick.  

Liadnan

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:38:48 -0800 you wrote:

> 
> Oh good, I thought I was the only one who thought of keeping moth balls in the
> pantry to fight off the tenacious flour moths! OK, it's not an insecticide but
> it does deter the existing moth population. It makes the pantry smell funky 
but
> everything in there is supposed to be sealed anyway.  Cold is the ONLY safe
> insecticide as far as I am concerned, so the flour stays in the freezer.
> 
> Selene
> 
> LYN M PARKINSON wrote:
> 
> > There are some horrible tiny moths that appear from nowhere and get into
> > things.  Maybe they come with Chilean fruit?  I got out my Bisquick the
> > other night to make up some biscuits for my chicken, and the big box was
> > full of these critters!  They have ruined beans, barley, rice, and nuts,
> > dried fruit, all sorts of things.  When I find a fresh batch of them, I
> > have to throw out a bunch of groceries, scour the cupboards and still
> > they find places to hide and re-appear.
> >
> > Now, all the nuts, barley and dried peas/beans etc. live in the freezers.
> >  Wish there was a food-safe insecticide to spray, but I don't dare do
> > that around food.  Have lately been wondering if it would be safe to
> > saturate cotton balls with insectacide and place them in cupboard
> > corners.  Finally got the critters to stay away from fabric by buying
> > some cedar pet bedding and leaving it on a bottom shelf of the fabric
> > wardrobe.  I don't want all my food to smell of cedar, though, so haven't
> > done that in the kitchen.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Allison
> >
> > allilyn at juno.com
> >
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 00:54:03 -0600 Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
> > writes:
> > >Allison said:
> > >> I've got a package of dried fava beans sitting in the freezer, right
> > >now.
> >
> > >
> > >Why do you keep the dried beans in the freezer? I thought that since
> > >they were dried they would keep perfectly well that way without
> > >needing
> > >to be frozen.
> > >
> > >--
> > >THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> 
> 
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