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| | | Clothes Moth Traps | Home » » » Pro-Pest Clothes Moth Traps - 1 package of 2 traps | | | | | | | Description: | | ProPest Pheronet Clothes Moth Traps will lure and kill webbing cloth moths, the most common type of clothes moth. Protect your wool fabrics and clothes, persian/oriental rugs, furs, feathers and other fine products. | | | Features: | |
• Last 3 Months!
• Non-Toxic no pesticides
• Ready to use
• 2 traps per pack
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 22 reviews |
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102 of 111 found the following review helpful:
Moth problemMar 24, 2011
By Type_faster_goal
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2UN2HGMB1212G Preface: WARNING to people with short attention spans. I am long winded. I'm a Senior Citizen and I don't care.
I keep and use industrial felt which is 50/50 wool/synthetic material. No bug problem in the first 2 years I have started using it. In the last two weeks, I start to see moths flying around the felt. Oh, oh, trouble, trouble. Googledee peck, peckity google.
IDENTIFY MALEFACTORS. It's not so easy catching the little buggers on the fly so I bought both the Propest and the Safer sticky catchers. $40 worth from Amazon.
It appears I have plain Clothes Moths. Light brown wings, less than 1/2" long. No mottling on wings.
Both moth catchers I received, are triangular open cardboard tubes with the sticky lining inside and their own little tiny strip of bug alluring super secret squirrel perfume inside. Did taxpayer money fund the research for this secret stuff? We want to know.
Neither brand captures all flying moths like a magnet as at least one reviewer has stated. In fact, if you snore through the lit, only male moths are snagged. Mommy moths are laying eggs all over the place. Yeaah, Grrrrrh.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to notice that moths fly like drunken sailors. Amazingly, in the course of a week, two Propest tubes each caught a dozen moths. Two Safer tubes were almost useless. One caught 2 moths and the other caught none. I moved all of them around a little every day. The Propest tubes are twice as big as the Safer ones and I think this is a factor.
I, as a senior citizen, am on board to try to do the Green thing as much as possible. Clearly however , once moths are flying all over your house, you are not going to get rid of all traces and iterations of them with any shade of Green song and dance, pyramids, good vibrations, force of argument and certainly not the inevitable cursing. Very much alive female moths, now bigger, flew around my face annoying me and raising my blood pressure to dangerous levels.
Killing all the boy moths is productive and fine with me but leaves, presumably, an equal number of maybe pregnant and/or very horny mommy moths. Hmmm, maybe a plot for a Japanese horror flick.
The last time I had moths, 15 years ago, long and short, I used pesticides to finally rid myself of these pests. I cannot tolerate these pests, and now, regrettably, for practical reasons, I have decided to take the advice of my wool felt supplier: Raid Max Deep Penetrating Fogger. Stay tuned.
UPDATED 4/2/11.
I have not fogged my place in spite of moths having been noticed in all my living and working area. I am foolishly avoiding what I know I must do. Folk with local (closet only, it seems) problems, take note.
My avoidance behavior (procrastinate, avoid the obvious) strategy may benefit some of y'all. Once you notice moths flying all over, you MUST assume they have moth eggs in all of the most unlikely (at least to you) places.
The Propest tubes continue to catch dumb boy moths. Each of 2 has several dozen while the Safer tubes stopped attracting after 2 (total) moths. Safer is useless for Clothes Moths. Very sad results, similar to other web results, I wonder what Safer execs talk about at board meetings.
My procrastination has led to a slightly different strategy to deal with the really annoying, remaining, mostly big, smarter, and/or female moths. Yeah, the ones that arrogantly fly in your face.
You're gonna love this. Fly paper rolls with Lanolin specks on them.
Details, details:
Warm the fly paper rolls in hot water in a ziplock bag so they unroll almost straight flat. At least 20 minutes in the hot water. After you pull them open, you may have to weigh them down a smidgen to keep them straight. This is also much more effective even on little fruit flies. Then, get lanolin oil or grease. Lanolin comes from sheep wool and moths luv anything woolly (qv).
At least this is what I guessed, since I invented this idea.
Four oz of pure lanolin oil cost $10 in Manhattan so I'm sure most of you can pay less for it. Women use lanolin for personal and or beauty reasons so it may be knocking around the house already. Put a bunch of little specks of oil on your flypaper with anything small: fat toothpick, head of a bobby pin, skinny vodka straw, etc. After a day or two, the big moths are stuck, stuck on glue. Since fly paper is good for the smallest of fruit flies, I'm not sure why only the big moths are caught. Is food (lanolin) more important than sex (secret pheromone stuff on those tubes, what you pay a premium for) to some moths? I leave this to young bloods to diviniate. But it works for me.
It seems to me, if you don't have the worst case home/shop commercial felt everywhere situation I have, that you can control moths preventably and proactively, even be sensibly Green, for very little dollar. Fly paper with lanolin costs 25 to 50 cents a pop and is effective for at least 6 months.
UPDATE October 13 2011:
I posted my own Moth Horror Video for y'alls edumafication.
I have had serious health issues and had to lay low for some time. Foolishly (maybe), I didn't use the Raid Max Deep bombs.
Mommy moths have been humming Girls Just Want To Have Fun everywhere.
For perspective, I have absolutely the worst case scenario for a moth problem. Almost 3000 square feet of mostly open space (home and shop). Mommies laying eggs in every nook and cranny. I detest bugs and in 35 plus years of living in my little home, I have had almost no (a rare case of the muses smiling on me) roaches, ants etc. I do bring home some exotic bugs from the absolutely incomparable Union Square Farmers Market but my handy dandy bottle of Boric Acid powder seems to take care of them. My place is quite messy but I have always observed proper sanitation (don't feed the bugs) which is crucial to keeping all bugs at bay.
My video shows the effectiveness of my El Cheapo flypaper invention. The fly paper catches all of the bigger (presumably Mommy) moths while the tubes catch the smaller, stupider (maybe) boy moths.
I have to revise my damning opinion of the Safer tubes. They do catch Clothes Moths but not very quickly nor effectively. The Pro-Pest tubes are much better value.
I will reiterate, once you see moths, the horse is out of the barn. Damage is likely and all of this is only a holding action. I would like to avoid the use of serious chemicals in my house but sometimes it is simply unavoidable. Proper sanitation (yeah, I know this encompasses a lot) is the best defense against moths.
I hope all of this helps.
21 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 I Felt like the Pied Piper!May 27, 2010
By Paula
I no sooner opened the box and the moths were all over this! I like that they are totally non-toxic since we do have pets. I opened the first package and had the little devils beating against my hands for me to open the traps. WOW I'll definitely keep these around and see how they work. I'm using them in conjunction with the herbal sachets...we'll see.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
Wiped out the moth populationSep 13, 2010
By book lady
"Steiff fan"
I bought four of these traps when I saw some wool moths in the house this summer. I placed a trap in the basement, and the other three throughout the house. The traps caught about 16 males, and I haven't seen a moth in a couple of months now, so the females must have been discouraged and died. Definitely recommended.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Different brands baited for different moth typesAug 04, 2011
By CarbonEntity
The ProPest are baited for one type of fabric- and clothing-munching moths (webbing moths, I think; apparently the more common variety, although that may be regional) while the Safer brand traps (Safer Brand 7270 Clothes Moth Alert Trap) are baited for the other type. Pantry moths, which get into food products, are a whole other problem and require yet a different kind of bait in their trap...
I recommend that buyers identify their moths very carefully and buy the appropriately-baited traps -- or buy one package of each at first, as I did, to determine which bait their pests are attracted to. Traps DO work, if you chose the right one for your problem. If the traps you buy don't catch any moths within a day or two, it is likely because you just require a different pheromone bait and it does not mean traps will never help you combat moth invasions.
I've also read that you should not use more than 2 traps at a time in your home lest the moths become confused by such a strong aroma of mating pheromones that they become unable to detect the source (so cannot fly into the traps and aren't ensnared).
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Excellent productOct 29, 2010
By Mothhater
I haven't seen a moth in over 24 hours and we had a lot of clothes moths. We did have to supplement by swatting them too and it's been about 6 weeks, but nothing else worked and chemicals are so dangerous for people and pets. My dad used to sell other pheromone traps for a different company and they worked well, so I knew the principle was sound. I may order a couple more, just in case, but it's such a treat not to be swarmed by the nasty pests, or have them eating my favorite sweaters.
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