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- From: snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder)
- Subject: Re: fungus gnats
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.070245.9705@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University
- References: <1992Nov13.135723.117@janus.arc.ab.ca> <1992Nov14.142709.10558@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:02:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.142709.10558@ptdcs2.intel.com> mcacc@ptdcs2.intel.com (Mark Cacciacarro ~) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov13.135723.117@janus.arc.ab.ca> thacker@RHEA.ARC.AB.CA writes:
- >>Sorry, let me try that again.
- >>
- >>
- >>I did once try a chemical control on gnats. I had just repotted
-
- [...some stuff about fungus gnats deleted...]
-
- > While I have your attention, I was infested with these little
- >unassuming brown moths in my garage, I put out the bug zapper to try to
- >catch them, but they where not attracted to it. I didn't think to much
- >about it until these small white catapillar or larva started to appear. They
- >have infested my chicken feed. The scrath is their favorite. I go into the
- >garage every night and turn on the light and catch anywhere from 20 to 40
- >crawling on the trash cans used for feed storage. The scratch can does not
- >seal, the Egg Maker can seals so it isn't to bad. Are these grain moths?
- >Any one got a guesse? I was reluctant to put BT on the chicken food.
- >Any suggestions?
- >
- > Mark Cacc.
-
-
- I'm no insect expert, but they sound like grain moths to me. I used to get
- them in flours and grain products that I kept in my kitchen back when I
- kept stuff bought in bulk in plastic bags or paper bags, or in the cardbourd
- boxes if it was commercial stuff. Well, I learned my lesson after having
- to throw out lots of stuff now and then. Now I keep everything in glass
- jars with lids (or in a pinch, re-used plastic containers with tight-fitting
- lids) and I can't remember when I last saw a grain moth. Besides, Ball
- Mason jars make very nice decorative/functional canisters to line up along
- the counter top, filled with flours and grains.
-
- But enough stories...Could you keep the grain in some sort of containers
- with tight lids that the moths could not get into? That might also
- be an effective way of controlling them.
-
- John
- snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu
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