Safer Brand 05140 The Pantry Pest Trap
November 7th, 2009
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From the Manufacturer
Attracts male grain moths, flour moths, meal moths, and seed moths. One trap covers a 1,000 square foot area. Contains a patented controlled timed release pheromone lure. Simply place lure in bottom of trap for easy assembly.
Product Description
The Pantry Pest Trap uses a powerful attractant that has a strong effect on certain moths.
It has been used in commercial pest control to trap a variety of moths. These include many different species: Indian meal moths, seed moths, raisin moths, almond moths, and tobacco moths.
It has been used in commercial pest control to trap a variety of moths. These include many different species: Indian meal moths, seed moths, raisin moths, almond moths, and tobacco moths.
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We had been plagued with pantry moths for MONTHS, and were getting at our wits ends. They were everywhere! I checked every food item we had and threw some away, cleaned the cupboards, but nothing I did even put a dent in the amount of moths we had. When I found some information online about these pantry moth traps, I then came here to Amazon to read the reviews. I was torn after reading that the newer versions were said to not work, but I was also desperate. When I received this, I set up one of the traps in our kitchen on top of one of the hanging cabinets, and was amazed that in only about a week, our problem was solved! I wish I would have tried this at the beginning and saved us a LOT of stress. I would HIGHLY recommend these traps to anyone… they work!
If your pantry is inundated with moths (or weevil-types) – this trap will take care of the moths that hatch after you clean out your pantry. With the long life cycle that these pests have – you need something to catch new ones. Even if you clean out your food and put everything kept in storage containers there may still be some rogue eggs (you would be amazed at what these pests like to lay their eggs in!) I found eggs in clean brown lunch sacks. It wouldn’t even be unreasonable to use these traps before you have a pest problem. Very safe!
No question, this is an effective product. Using pheramones [sic.] to attact moths then trap them with sticky paper appeal to my love of science and technology.
Today, the product is already folded into a triangular house for the moths to fly into. The interior is coated with adhesive so the moths become trapped after entering the house. Users must removed a pheramone-infused tab from a sealed package, then insert the tab into a slot to get it inside the housing. But almost always, the tab falls out of its intended spot and is stuck to the interior. I’ve used it this way and it seems to work fine, but the manufactuer can help users by making three changes in the way they package the product.
1. make the little pheramone-infused tab already correctly positioned and attached to the interior so that users don’t have to open the sealed package and handle the tab.
2. They should cover the whole item, including the sticky paper, with wax paper, score where the folds go, and indicate how to fold it into the housing shape. Then users would just have to peel the whole wax sheet off to expose the sticky paper and the pheramone tab, fold it up, and voila, done!
This way, the manufacturer can also save on packaging by shipping the items in a flat envelope rather than a mostly empty box.
3. Make the sticky housing attachable to something so it doesn’t knock around my pantry. This can be as simple as a hole to hang it on a nail, or a weak adhesive like that used on Post-it notes to attach the trap to a wall.