Clothes Moth Traps - Ready to Use - 1 package of 2 traps

I have had a mild infestation of the little half-centimeter pests for months in my NorCal apartment. After reading some of these reviews, I ordered a couple Pro-Pest traps and bought a couple of the Safers at my local hardware store. At first I had a Safer trap in my closet area, where the bugs seem to cluster. Bagged two intruders in a couple days. Then I got the Pro-Pest in the mail and put one in the closet, while shifting the Safer to another room of my small apartment where there had been sightings. In a couple weeks the Pro-Pest has bagged eight terrorists, while the Safer -- in a less populous area -- now has two more. In addition I continue to smoosh them on walls whenever I spot them, and am constantly on the lookout. I also shoot them out of the air with a spray solution of either glass cleaner or Pine-Sol. It doesn't kill them, but sometimes they flutter to the floor, or they to light on a wall where I obliterate their sorry carcass with hand or flyswatter. Only once have I seen what I think was a female -- not flying but skittering down a wall. Smooshed her flat. I'm still finding several of these bleeping things a week after weeks of trapping, so I suspect that only a fogger or discovery of the nest(s) will eradicate them. Early on, I discovered two nests, one in a wool rug and another in some seldom-worn slippers that had wool linings. I dispatched the bugs and worms which promptly cut the population. But they continue to appear, alas. So somewhere there is a covert Al-Qaeda cell eating my wool. Got to search every corner or they may be here forever. UPDATE Feb. 28: After four weeks with each trap in a different room, I have 16 moths in one and 17 in the other, so it seems that the two brands work equally well. But of course the critters are still wandering into the traps, and I still keep smooshing others that I spot on the wall, so there is an active nest that I will have to find before the problem is solved. The commercial traps are catching moths but not eradicating them. I also tried the fellow reviewer Senior Citizen's trick of fly paper baited with lanolin targeting the mommy moths. Have not yet caught a single moth with three strips.

These are expensive - i paid $8 for two squares of moth hormone- yes they killed twenty to thirty each but didnt get rid of some preggers ones which continued to fly around- after a few weeks the moths increased like they were taking over my house and even following me to work- I had enough and went to Home Depot for a box of insect fogger- I used for cans and ran like hell- left the house fort the day (cost was $10) Hours later I came back- the fogger killed every last one including the eggs- I was free of the moth horror- pro pest in comparison didnt do much and would cost me $8 every few weeks- if they return ZI will use my fogging cans again- cheap and effective

I have been battling clothes moths for several years. For a while, the damage was minimal but things suddenly escalated, so I declared all-out war on the moths. I completely emptied my large closet, vacuumed every nook and cranny -- seriously, I even vacuumed between the floor boards. Then I scrubbed the entire closet. I washed or dry cleaned all the woolen items, at least the ones that had not been turned to lace by the moths, which I tossed. Particularly sad was an unworn Donna Karan pants suit that cost $600 and had the tags on it. The moths also targeted any Eileen Fisher item. I also used the freezer method. I put all the woolens in the freezer for a few days, then in the hot dryer for ten minutes then back in the freezer for a while. I brushed clothes and laid them out in the sun. I figured by now I MUST have killed them all, right? Wrong. I put all the clothes back in the closet including one wool sweater. Two moths zeroed in on it. Time for chemical warfare. I ordered the Pro-Pest and the Safer brand traps. The Pro-pest caught a moth immediately, I mean within 20 minutes. A few days later, it caught another. In the meantime, Safer caught none. I am sincerely hoping the Pro-pest kills off the stragglers (or their daddies, as it catches the male moths)and ends this cycle. Anyway, I recommend the Pro-pest. I kind of wish I had tried them before the major cleaning effort just to see how many it would have attracted. You should add these traps to your arsenal of moth fighting weapons. I will have one in my closet at all times!

I had been plagued by clothes moths for a couple of seasons. When they weren't going away (but my clothes were!) I bought some Safer traps at my local hardware store. They seemed to work, but some of the reviewers said the Pro-Pest brand traps a different type of moth than the Safer traps do, and I still had an unacceptable problem, so I tried both. I put one of each brand in the closets most affected. For the first couple of weeks, the Safer traps were catching moths and the Pro-Pest only had one or two, which could just have been accidental. Then I saw no additional moths for a week or so, and then all of a sudden the Pro-Pest traps had quite a few. My assumption is they have slightly different life-cycles and/or mating times and I have both types of moths. As others have noted, the traps catch only the males and it's the females whose eggs do the damage, and I do still see some moths here and there. That said, I've definitely had far fewer ruined sweaters and woolens since I started using both brands of the traps, enough so that I have decided I don't need to do any hard-core extermination. I will continue to buy and deploy both brands, because in my situation they do seem to work well in combination. My suggestion is that if one brand doesn't work for you, try the other.

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.

To begin with, these traps do exactly what they're supposed to - catch clothes months. I have several clothes moths in each one. One of our big problem areas was on the wool rug under the sofa, so I placed a trap down there. Not only did the trap down there get a few moths, but the larvae also crawled right into it. Here's where it gets fun though... The one trap in the coffee table managed to catch some kind of large beetle - at least that's what I think it was. We live in FL & despite the bug guy coming to spray, all sorts of things get into our older house. Said beetle was so interesting that our cat managed to get himself trapped as well. There's nothing like the sound of a cat running around in a panic because there's a moth trap stuck to his paw. The more he ran, the harder it would stick. I finally managed to get it out after half an hour spent chasing him. So that trap is now the proud owner of several dead moths, a beetle and wads of black cat hair. Then last week we noticed the trap under the sofa had been moved to the other side of the room and there were some weird pieces in there. Almost like bug wings, minus the bugs. I couldn't figure it out, but figured the cat must have been messing with it and didn't think too much more on it. That night, I awoke to find a 4' snake in my living room. The trap must have caught the snake for a little bit earlier that day and it left behind some scales. So all in all, a very useful product for catching all kinds of things. If you have clothes moths, which we do (among other things apparently), then I would definitely recommend this.

UPDATE: Left them out for as long as considered effective. Humans lose, with no moths in traps. I cannot necessarily blame this on the brand though. I think I have a different kind of moth (case making) as this seems to be for the more common clothes moth, the webbing, and hope that the new ones and different brand I bought (6.7.16) work better. BEFORE IN 2015: Two stars because there is still time, I suppose, for this to trap whatever. However, no "customers" since I set the two traps on July 5, 2015. Also, the supposed triangular shape did not hold and the sides kept collapsing inward until I used a staple to stabilize the traps. I will not get these again and will just keep up with spraying lavender mist along with a very thorough cleaning and vacuuming of the closet. Maybe the traps are NOT for what is flying around. Not an entomologist unfortunately. I won't use harmful pesticides because of my cats. Wish it could have worked out. Oh well.

I am going to have to agree with other reviewers that if these aren't working you may have a different type of moth. I bought one set to make sure and they worked better than I imagined and I'm back ordering more. We live in a high rise and had an issue about 10 yrs ago but none since. At the first sight of a moth I immediately went to work to nip the problem in the bud. We have cashmere, wool and feather comforters and pillows..all which are bait for these moths. We store our winter things in a storage room with others in our building which is where I suspect the problem originated. Within a day we trapped more moths than we ever knew we had. A bit of advice I took which may have helped was to use other products to drive them out of the clothes and to the pheromones. Our condo is too enclosed and we have pets so moth balls were out. We used a huge set of cedar to hang and put in drawers. We also misted our closets with cedar. Seems to have worked like a champ. We also took all items that they are attracted to and put it in one closet which we cleaned well and treated more heavily. Seems to be working and we have not found holes in anything but do have moths in the traps.