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To: shhrubbery!
For years I had a problem with meal moths (nasty things that get into your cookies, cereal, flour, bread etc - laying their eggs - which soon hatch into gross little worms).

Personally I would rely on keeping all screen doors closed rather than spiders...............

24 posted on 09/07/2017 6:09:50 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco
Personally I would rely on keeping all screen doors closed rather than spiders...............

Good advice, but meal moths don't always come through an open screen door.

Mine arrived in a box of cereal purchased at a supermarket. When the box was opened, out flew a cloud of meal moths. That cloud began a years-long infestation. I sprayed pesticides and began storing vulnerable food in moth-tight containers. But they still persisted.

The only thing that finally worked to get rid of them was ..............spiders.

28 posted on 09/08/2017 2:23:04 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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