How to Get Rid of Moths

Some pests only crop up at certain times of the year. However, moths can be a pain the entire year. You may only realise you have a problem when you start finding holes in your clothes – either stored in drawers or hanging in the wardrobe.

As you can imagine, it is far better to prevent the problem by investing in a few practical solutions than to be faced with the cost of replacing your clothes. However, if you already have moths and you’ve seen the damage they cause, you have to take another tack. You’ll have to get rid of them before you can prevent them, if that makes sense.

The problem with moths is that even if you don’t see any adult ones, or you get rid of them when you do see them, you could still have larvae and eggs in your drawers and clothing. So you have to find a solution that will give you the results you want. You have to focus on eradicating all the eggs, larvae and adult moths and break the cycle of breeding they can very easily leave you with.

The first step

The best bet is to remove all your clothes from your wardrobe and drawers – especially where you have seen the evidence they’ve been eating them – and wash them. You can then vacuum the drawers out and make sure you wipe them clean too. Be sure to vacuum well into the corners and edges so anything you cannot see will be vacuumed up as well.

There are sprays and aerosols you can use on your clothing and in your drawers to prevent damage occurring, and of course you can use traps and other similar items as well.

The next step

It also pays to maintain your efforts. It’s easy to think you’ve got rid of them all by taking the steps above and eradicating them all. However, they could come back if you don’t then have preventative measures in place to make sure this doesn’t happen.

The two-pronged attack should get rid of any moths you have at the moment, and bring into play a preventative approach that should ensure you don’t have to worry about any of them in future either. And for the sake of your clothes, that would definitely be a good idea. Prevention is far cheaper than clothing replacements, that’s for sure.