@User

I’m from Germany and live in an apartment.

I don’t know about my neighbors.

It is definitely food moths aka Indian meal moths as I know the difference between cloth moths, food moths and moths that come from the trees.

The infestation happened probably through muesli and flour because they were full of eggs and stuff. I got rid of them two months ago with all the other food I had.

I use vinegar and hot water because it is suggested to use them to clean the surfaces.

There are still too many moths around but I don’t see any larvaes for a long time anymore. I have no idea how they still keep appearing.

OK, your food contaminated your residence. Vinegar hasn’t worked, have you considered local professional help. Have you considered DIY insecticides?

@User The actual reason I wanted to post here is to hear that it is normal in the early stages because maybe these are the moths from past that just ended their cocoon phase. It could have been that they hid behind the cupboards.

Otherwise, I can’t explain how they still come back when I starve them (including myself) for two months already (!) and I’ve never seen a larvae since then.

So you say, it is not normal, right?

I do believe this.

Update: I just entered the kitchen and again, I got attacked by many new moths. There are like 14 in the kitchen and in other rooms up to 7 moths each. This is crazy.

What I learned about these creatures is that they love to jump into the oil and they die immediately. I now put small amounts of oil into two rooms that will catch all of them over night hopefully and repeat the success in other rooms too.

I know they’re starving and they’re desperate for even soap water. That’s also where I find them dead over night, if I leave it out. When it comes to the smell of oil, they go crazy.

It is strange how long they lived without dry food anywhere in the home.

I am positive that oil will solve the problem now.

I need my kitchen back, so I can go back to my healthy diet.

I will keep you updated.

Put moth traps in the cupboards.

Where I live, pantry moths can live on paper and cardboard. I had an infestation, took everything out of the pantry, got rid of all the paper packaging, put cereals, etc, in plastic containers (no need to starve myself!), washed everything down and used an insecticide in the pantry, left it for a day, and then put everything back. Problem solved.

We also had a problem with sofa bugs - it's even worse than food moth. They cannot be removed by any pesticides and poison. You can only throw out the sofa and everything in which they have settled. When there was made treatment in our house, we came to live to friends for a week. They have a small apartment, and we had nowhere to store food and cook. Therefore, we regularly ate in a cafe or ordered tingkat delivery singapore. On the one hand, it is very convenient, but I really missed the cooking and the taste of the food that my wife prepares.

It has been long time but I want to give an update on my situation because someone may go through the same issue and Google search may lead them to this thread:

It turned out that the food moth larveas made holes on the soup paper packages and ate the powder soup. That was the reason why I couldn’t get rid of them, even though I threw everything out except those. They looked not risky to me but I was wrong. After throwing them out too, the house was cleaned out from them pretty quickly.

@HU-564916007 thank you for giving update. i also live in germany and have been battling this situation for past 2 years .. my kitchen has a lot of cupboards and nooks and corners.. even though i dont leave any open packages but those moths keeps coming out..

They can live in your pantry behind and underneath shelves, behind can good labels, etc., you have to remove everything and clean, then get those moth cakes you put in the closet. Everything you buy like flour, cereals or even can goods put in the freezer to kill the larvae for some days. My biggest surprise was finding larvae behind the paper labels on can goods, so remove all the labels (use marker to write on the can) and was thoroughly. Hope this helps.

We live in a 3500 square foot home and have been battling pantry moths since December 2021. Fortunately, the moths have been contained to our mud room which is a room between our attached garage and the rest of the house. We believe the source was birdseed that had been stored in the mud room. (I have no idea why someon put birdseed in that room!) Although we discovered the moths in December, I am pretty confident that they were there for at least a month or longer before we found them. We found moth pupae in the sealed glass Yankee candles! One blessing was that our actual pantry in the kitchen was free of moths, and remains free. Needless to say we still invested in hundreds of dollars of airtight containers to store our food. Now it is May 2022 and we still are finding moths. Not many though- we went over 3 weeks without seeing one. We thought we finally beat them. The two mud room doors remain closed at all times except when entering or exiting through to the garage. We removed most of the cabinets from the mud room when we did the initial clean out. The mud room is almost completely stripped. We contemplated taking off the trim that goes around the doors and the baseboards…. however we haven’t since there is caulk between the trim and the walls… It seems so ridiculous that an insect can be so disruptive…. So we will continue to monitor and kill on site…A couple of weeks ago, we had mulch delivered for the flower beds - to my disgust, the mulch had moths in them. Not the same as the pantry moths, but moths no less. We paid for 11 yards of mulch and the nursery threw in the moths for free, I suspect… I don’t think there is an answer for any of this. I am just sharing my story, to let others know, if you see a moth in your house, be vigilant - don’t ignore them.