One of the bugbears when we first moved here to Australia was the Indian Meal Moth. When you're starting out from scratch building a household again and using things like ice cream containers as kitchen containers, there is no protection, as the caterpillars or whatever seem to just slide nicely under the lid. Screw top containers were better because they were more difficult to navigate, and one would find little webs in the screw threads.
It continued to be a problem for decades until I happened to notice something called a pantry moth trap. There are plenty of entries via Google search on those words, but I don't have an unopened pack to tell you about what I can get here. It's a flat cardboard that you fold into a triangular "tube". You open up a lure and stick it on the sticky inside of the trap. Moths are attracted to the lure, and get stuck on the sticky stuff. I hardly ever see a moth now - except stuck in the trap. I often wondered just how bad caterpillars and weevils were in the flour - after all we must swallow loads we don't know about, and it can be scary to sift flour and see these things there. Eventually I read somewhere that the problem is not so much in the creatures themselves, as in the stuff that is inside them. We don't always know where our great load of bad stuff comes from; unintentional protein in grains may be one source. Great fleas have little fleas etc. etc. etc. Rowena the stuff about the extra protein is funny unless you have these critters. If you have bad eyes and cannot see them, I also think it may not be a problem. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
