need someone with knowledge on moths 😭🙏
been fighting a moth problem for almost a year (i think)
i was given a syrian hammy sometime like a year ago and she came with opened bedding and food and stupid me had no idea about indian meal moths living in open food and stuff so i didnt think to freeze it i just threw the open bedding away and used the food because i had my hamsters on the same stuff already
fast forward to now i feel like the population has gotten out of control at first it was just a few moths here then like a few months ago i started finding caterpillars which i got rid of and now its like an army of them all trying to make their way up my wall i feel like ive gone like a week without seeing a single moth to just seeing a single 1 tonight and now this explosion of caterpillars crawling around is freaking me outive probably killed like 20-30+ in the last liek 3-4 hours. ive been catching majority of them before they can make it to the roof (only 2 have made it there atm) and i plan on hoovering them up in the morning
basically i just want to know how the hell i find out what type of moth they are? i originally thought they were clothes moths but im not to sure anymore. i bought clothes moth pheromone traps a while ago but they didnt do anything the moths werent interested in them so i ordered the pantry moth ones last night. i managed to get a few pictures of the moth i seen today but its early morning and i only had my phone light so its not the best quality i hope its good enough tho.
ive also not seen them making any cocoons on anything. they arent in my hamsters food as i keep 1 hamster mix in a airtight tub and the other mix in the original ziplock bag it came in and the only other food is the pellets which ive just been folding the bag over and there has been nothing in there at all either 🤷*♂️
i really hope someone can please help me figure out what moths these are because its driving me crazy and i cant get rid of them
also i read indian meal moth larvae can create this silk webbing like spiders, the larvae ive been finding make the same stuff when i try grab them with tweezers they just propel themselves down the wall which makes me think they are meal moths 🤷*♂️ but then you have the webbing clothes moth and i have no idea if they can do the same or if they only use it to make their cocoon
im now realizing i have no idea how to attach photos so if someone could help with that to that would be amazing 😭
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