Comments on: Infestation

By: DulwichDivorcee

DulwichDivorcee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:14:00 +0000

Do you know, ZZ, I really don’t think Fortnum’s stock mothballs, unless it’s an ironic solid chocolate mothball from Prestat – and I’m sure my little friends would just lick their greedy lips at those. Yuk, don’t even want to think about moth lips. I have put some lavender aromatherapy oil in the cupboard and am hoping they will all go away – a far off place full of day labourers would be ideal!

By: DulwichDivorcee

DulwichDivorcee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:10:00 +0000

Dearest NMO, I have run out of Flash spray and used last of Illicit Bang in doomed attempt to make shower squeaky clean – which one with bleach do you recommend? I shall be making the weekly pilgrimage to Mr Sainsbury later today, if I’ve got over the horrors, that is. Not sure I could ever look a dried good in the face again.

By: DulwichDivorcee

DulwichDivorcee — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:03:00 +0000

Dear PM, could never hate you, but did spend about four hours screaming ‘euwwwwwwwwww!’ after getting your post. Euwwww! I can feel it coming on again, just at the idea of getting the little darlings to search for larvae. But in a grateful sort of way, really. Ancient Grains is the breakfast cereal that the suicidal, lentil-weaving mother eats in About A Boy, and in our household is shorthand for the repulsive hamster food I eat when on a health kick. Now I can throw it away in my anti-moth purge! Thank you! X

By: ZZ

ZZ — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:13:00 +0000

Entomophobia & Ameriphobia. It could be time to call Fortnum and Mason for a box of mothballs. There are some more organic approaches – but they just involve day labourers repackaging the mothballs in far off places – this is bad for downtrodden indigenous people – and the insecticide is inevitably diluted in the process.

By: Nunhead Mum of One

Nunhead Mum of One — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:28:00 +0000

oh my god, this sounds awful. Eurgh, sorry DD am not helping I know but I say vacuum, Flash spray, chuck out anything that these beasts feed (including everything M&S) have even looked at let alone hatched in, vacuum again, Flash spray again (or use the one with bleach, it’s very good) and then gradually reintroduce your dried goods. Sometimes obsessive cleaning is very good!

NMO xx

By: Potty Mummy

Potty Mummy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:31:00 +0000

OK, you are probably not going to like this, DD. I think you have pantry moths. I've never had them, but a friend has, and apparantly they come over in packets of dried goods from the US (where is Ancient Grains made, just out of interest). Once they are in your kitchen are very difficult to get rid of unless you go through every single packet in your cupboards, checking for larvae (yes, disgusting I know), or holes where they may have crawled in. Otherwise, they will just keep coming out.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

I suggest you get your kids home to help - it can be payback for all the dirty bottoms you wiped in the past.

Or pay them per pack where the creatures are found?

Again, sorry not to have better news... Please don't hate me...