Hi,

We are suffering a moth invasion in our kitchen, any suggestions?

They came from a bag of rice which we discovered had sprung to life one day in a cupboard. Have cleaned out but alas they keep appearing.

All advice appreciated.

Thanks B.

Get a lighter and an aerosol and off ya go!

Keep all your dried food in sealed plastic containers, you can get some cedar to put in your cupboards as moths don't like the smell of it apparently, keep disinfecting the cupboards as well. Hope you get rid of them.

Put a bay leaf in the containers.

Definately keep all dried food in plastic containers with good lids. But what size of cupboard is it. I would have a good look round the cupboard, especially up in corners, make sure no little cocoon is lurking. As the moths must be coming from somewhere. Hope you get rid of them.

I read recently of 2 cases where moths were apparently already in the food - a batch of Quaker Oats was withdrawn because of moth pupae and larvae in the product, and a batch of Sainsbury's fruit & nut muesli was withdrawn due to moths in the product.

Ewwwwwww We've got a box of Quaker Oats in the kitchen cupboard, they'll be going in the bin today

Thanks for posting that btw Janni - you might have saved us from a moth invasion

FB it is only a certain batch of Quaker Oats. I had another look on the Food Standards Agency website and it says "The product being withdrawn is: Quaker Oats with free measuring cup 1kg cartons Best Before 11/08/2007 221 (time stamp between 23:40 and 00:10 inclusive) W", and it also says "The product was distributed in the north of England to Tesco stores".

And for the Sainsbury's Fruit & Nut muesli it says "The product withdrawn is: Sainsbury’s Fruit & Nut Muesli 1.5kg bag Batch codes starting with 6213 xxx xxx".

Oh right Janni, we're the north-west so probably not affected us, don't thi k there was a measuring cup in the pack either. Thanks anyway

Eeww i just had a panic about my cereal, but it's tescos muesli in my cupboard!