About 10 years ago, I left a bag of unsterilized sunflower birdseed in my basement, and thus began a continuing battle to rid my house of Indian meal moths. After a long fight to get them out of ...

which spin cocoons and pupate into moths, starting the cycle over again. DEAR JOAN: For the past year I found brown meal moths all over my house. I was told that it is a pantry moth and once you ...

Answer: It sounds like your mom’s kitchen has a healthy population of Indian meal moths. You are seeing the adults, the flying moths and the wormy larvae. There are probably meal-moth eggs and ...

There are two different types of pantry pests – Indian meal moths and a wide variety of beetles. Meal moths (Lepidoptera) are less than ½ inch long. The female lays her eggs on almost any type ...

Thankfully, Moths found in the kitchen are called pantry moths, or Indian meal moths. They aren't harmful to humans but they can get into food and make it inedible, which can be extremely frustrating.

is the most widespread moth pest around the world and has been in the UK since the 1800s. But another species, the Indian ...

is the most widespread moth pest around the world and has been in the UK since the 1800s. But another species, the Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) – also known as the pantry moth – is ...

However, an infestation can be a distressing experience, with hundreds of moths reported in some cases. Indian meal moth Niall Gallagher, Technical Manager at BPCA said: “Moths don’t spread ...