{"id":9442,"date":"2014-03-25T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T13:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2014-03-25T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T13:16:49","slug":"stomp-smash-swat-scrub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/03\/25\/stomp-smash-swat-scrub\/","title":{"rendered":"Stomp, smash, swat, scrub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9444\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/03\/pantrymoth3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9444\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9444 \" alt=\"Wikipedia photo\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/03\/pantrymoth3.jpg\" width=\"514\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/03\/pantrymoth3.jpg 514w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/03\/pantrymoth3-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few years ago someone brought a bag of flour to my house. It was infested with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indianmeal_Moth\">pantry moths, <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indianmeal_Moth\">plodia interpunctella<\/a>&#8212;<\/em>also called Indianmeal moth, North American High Flyer, and Weevil Moth.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had an infestation, you know how persistent this moth&#8211;and its larvae and webbing&#8211;can be.<\/p>\n<p>After months of smashing and swatting moths, then finding a nasty weave of webbing in bags of flour and other grains, I rolled up my sleeves and got serious.<\/p>\n<p>I threw away everything in my pantry cupboards that wasn&#8217;t tightly sealed in glass jars or tins. I tossed all of the old shelf lining and scrubbed thoroughly. This pretty much worked. Weeks passed and I only saw one moth. It turns out, that&#8217;s all you need to see to still have a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, as the weeks passed, more moths.<\/p>\n<p>A friend gave me several moth traps&#8211;basically a sticky surface infused with a substance that attracts the moths. This was effective&#8211;combined with a second round of cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>So, now, five years later, why am I writing about pantry moths? Well, they&#8217;re back. I&#8217;m about to go at it again. The beginning of Spring cleaning.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a pantry moth problem, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Get-Rid-of-Pantry-Moths\">here&#8217;s a handy Wikipedia guide<\/a> to what needs to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck. They&#8217;re persistent little buggers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago someone brought a bag of flour to my house. It was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}