Clothes Moth Alert Trap-Safer Brand 07270-1 Box

Cloth Moth Alert Trap-Safer

Cloth Moth Alert Trap-Safer protects your clothes and furnishings from costly moth damage. The Cloth Moth Alert Trap is designed to alert you to a potential problem, and is designed to trap adult moths NOT the larvae which do the actual damage. Cloth Moth infestation require clothing to be thoroughly laundered by dry cleaning or in a washing machine. You may also freeze items a week in a standard freezer. Rugs and furniture should be steamed-cleaned. Use one or two traps for an average size room. Replace traps after 12 weeks
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Cloth Moth		Pantry Moth
The Pantry moth will have a noticable two toned coloring while the clothes moth will be a uniform khaki color

• Clothes Moth Alert Trap and X Lure Cloth Moth Traps protect your clothes and furnishings from costly cloth moth damage.
• These lures are specifically designed to lure the : Web Cloth Moths that attack fabrics. It does not work on the casemaking cloth moths
• These traps are designed to alert you to a potential problem, and is designed to trap adult moths NOT the larvae which do the actual damage.
• Moth infestation require clothing to be thoroughly cleaned by dry cleaning or in a washing machine.
• You may also freeze items a week in a standard freezer.
• Rugs and furniture should be steamed-cleaned.
• Follow instructions to hand traps at eye level in closets and rooms to be protected.
• Use one or two traps for an average size room.
• Replace traps after 12 weeks.

  Prevention and Control Measures:

  1. Storage in tight containers
     Stored clothing should be kept in tightly closed containers after cleaning them.
  2. Removal of animal nests.
     Fabric-damaging pests such as clothes moths sometimes move into homes from the abandoned nests of birds, rodents, bats, bees, and wasps. These sources should be located and removed. Rats and mice should be eliminated. The preferred manner for treating rodents is by trapping. If poisoned rodents die in inaccessible places, their carcasses can become food sources for fabric pests and flies.
  3. Vacuuming and Cleaning
     Look for places that debris collects ; under furniture that is rarely moved, along baseboards, in cracks between floorboards, and wherever debris collects. Also clean in closets where fabric items, furs, and feather-filled materials are stored, and inside and behind heaters, vents, and ducts.
  4. Cleaning fabrics.
     Clothes moths are attracted to the food, beverage, and sweat stains in woolens and other materials, not to the wool itself. It is important that garments are cleaned thoroughly before being stored.

  Inspection

  • A complete inspection of the closets and other areas is the first order of business. The soiled garments, particularly woolens need to be dry cleaned or laundered.
  • After the inspection, critical areas should receive the special attention. The insecticides will kill exposed adults and larvae. In carpets, it would be around the baseboards. In furniture it would be around the buttons, zippers and seams.
  • After vacuuming cracks and crevices in the closets , an aerosol with a crack and crevice tip such as

    Alpine Aerosol PT and CB D-Force HPX can be sprayed in the cracks and crevices

  • A residual insecticide such as   Suspend SC Insecticide would be a good choice for spot treatments.
  • Infested rugs, carpets, and furniture should be cleaned thoroughly and protected with a residual insecticide application. A recommended residual insecticide would be Suspend SC Insecticide
    Always keep pets and children off the wet surface until it dries. Sensitive items, such as museum pieces, wall mountings, furs, taxidermy mounts, etc., might require vaults fumigation or treatment with temperature control. Major pest control companies do have chambers for this type of control.