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10-08-2003, 04:43 PM
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Surviving a plague of moths
"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message ...
Cross posted to uk.rec.gardening "Roy Millar" wrote in message ... Don't know what I could have done to encourage them, but I'm suffering a plague of small (clothes?) moths. Anyone know of reasonably safe ways of eliminating them? -- Roy Millar, Use m o u l i n e t @ There are loads of moths around at present but I doubt they are clothes moths. I don't think they do very well on modern artificial fabrics. I keep finding moths hiding in unlikely places during the day. AFAIK they are mainly nocturnal and so have to find a safe retreat during the heat of the day. I am trying to explain gently that my stock of timber in the garage which I am using in my ever ongoing en-suite project is not a safe place to hide, but every time I pull out another piece of timber I find a moth hiding in the gaps below. If you can bear it, please don't eliminate them. Obviously check that they are not clothes moths first :-) AFAIK they are completely harmless and beneficial to the garden, much like butterflies. They seem to take over from the butterflies in the evening, flitting between the flowers. I like moths: many of them are much more elegant than butterflies. The children and I used to set a moth trap overnight and admire and release our haul in the morning. Collins Gem Guide to Butterflies and Moths is very good for identifying. Clothes moths are very small, and I doubt if you'd get clouds of them in the garden. Cabbage moths are the night equivalent of cabbage white butterflies; codlin moths are the ones which put caterpillars in apples; and I find mullein moths troublesome on verbascums here in West Wales. All these are shades of brown -- at rest, the mulleins look just like old bits of bark. Also a pest are winter moths, which you won't have just now, as, surprisingly, they appear in the winter: grease bands round your apple trees will stop the wingless females climbing up and creating havoc. Mike. |
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