Pantry Moths - Life Cycle and Moth Control (part 1)
Once you see one pantry moth flying around your kitchen it's time to focus on getting rid of all the pantry moths you haven't seen yet. Why? One flying adult pantry moth means the odds of a full pantry moth infestation are much higher. Typically moth larvae will already have been laid, and the pantry moth worms are ending their feeding stage and preparing to look for a mate to complete the pantry moth life cycle. Stay with us as we explore pantry moths origins, how to identify pantry moths, the pantry moth life cycle, and why the pantry moth is considered such a pantry pest. We'll finish with some ideas for pantry moth control, how to get rid of moths naturally, including pantry moth traps.
So what do we know about Pantry Moths? Part 1 of this article about pantry moths will focus on the pantry pest - About Pantry Moths. You can read part 2 - to learn how to get rid of moths naturally.
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Bakers know about these pests. Open a bag of flour left too long in storage and there are little white worms in it, often with a darkening on one end of the worm. The only solution is to remove the entire bag, take it outside for the garbage pickup.
They can easily plague a home, because they begin in some flour, grain, or meal product and expand their population from there. They can feed off any organic product, even dried leaves in a flower vase, changing from flour moths to flower moths.
When they mate, the female lays up to 300 eggs in various tiny crevices, where they hatch at odd times.
Flour moths are dumber than rocks. They flit around and provide easy targets for any weapon. But their power is in their apparent weakness and abundant numbers. Left alone, they will help themselves to all food products and bits or organic material, reproducing with abandon. The best trap is one where the males are attracted to the female scent and stuck on sticky paper.
Like flour moths, the first false teacher appears, flitting around. "What's that?"
"Just a little moth."
It can easily be taken out of action. No problem. Later - "There's another one, on the TV." Smack. Flour moth dust on the TV - wiped away. Tiny scales, like dust. No danger - right?
In WELS, Church and Change began with a few people, who dipped into the synod treasury to expand their operations. Just as flour moths find any source of food - once inside, so the Changers find any source of money when left alone.
Someone pointed out the Church and Change websty to me, so I began doing research on them. They were multiplying faster than excuses in the Northern Wisconsin District. Their board of directors paralleled the WELS headquarters staff, so they could burrow into the whole sect at once. They had nests at Mequon and the synod schools, plus a big nest at Wisconsin Lutheran College, which was completely non-WELS whenever the bugs hit the fan. They nest at all the centers of power now, and make sure their pesky buddies get funded so they can expand even more.
If someone threatened to smack a flour moth at CrossWalk, it flew to Milwaukee to scope out a new nest. If another flour moth got into trouble, several new locations were offered for refuge.
The flour moths of false doctrine were never identified as pests but as essential to the sect. They continue to lead the so-called Evangelism Day events at Martin Luther College - and no one laughs! How to start a coffee and couch church - I failed, but hey, it was bad timing.
They write articles for the simpleton periodical and show up as great heroes at the synod schools.
If a spider comes along to purge to flour moths of WELSdom, the flour moths all squeal - "Eek. Spider. Burn him with fire. If you even go near that spider, he will bit you and kill you. Kill. Kill."
If you let flour moths frolic too long, every container of food, every dog food bin, every vase with a few dried flowers will be wiggling with worms. So it is with WELS, Missouri, and the Little Sect today. Even the dying CLC (sic) is wiggling with them.
The SynCon flour moths dine on UOJ and Praise Bands, paraphrased Bibles and New Age motivational talks.
Lutherdom is wormy today. Luther pointed out that the moment the Gospel takes hold, it becomes spoiled and wormy. He knew about food parasites too. But he also pointed out that this is good, so we can separate the good from the bad.
As I wrote above, when a baker finds a bag of flour with meal worms in it, he takes it outside and disposes of it. He will not use it or even tolerate it being inside for another second. A vendor can drop a case of raw eggs. That mess can wait. The flour has to go outside, or tons of flour will soon be infected with the same worms. Sealed paper bags, hundred-weight, sewn at the top? - the worms will get in. Metal cans of flour with tight lids? - no problem. Coffee, spices, an old pair of shoes in the dark? The eggs will hatch. The worms will feast. The moths will meet and do what comes natural to them, dying but dreaming of their 300 kids and thousands of grandkids.
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| How does a pastor react to this? Poison or spiritual food - that is the litmus test. |
