Safer Brand 07270 Clothes Moth Alert Trap

Not too long ago, our daughter arrived at our house after a year away from home with bags full of clothes that were full of moths. To this day, she rejects that notion that she brought such a scourge to our family home, but the facts speak for themselves. The day before our daughter arrived home, there was not a moth to be found. The day after she landed and unceremoniously dumped her bags in the front hall closet, I opened the door to that same closet and turned on the light only to be met by the frantic flutterings of a newly arrived population of moths that were scurrying as quickly as their little dusty wings could take them into the dark corners, away from my dropped jaw and curses. I took action immediately. First, I closed the door, hoping for containment. Second, I gently scolded my daughter with the reminder that, unlike her, we actually enjoyed the pleasure of a clean, vermin-free home. Third, I went online to check out the relative safety of the more toxic insecticides such as "moth crystals" that kill everything--adults, larva, and eggs. Fourth, I decided that I could not seal the hall closet tightly enough to prevent toxic fumes of the conventional insecticides from entering our living space; Fifth, I searched for safer alternatives and found...you guessed it...Safer Brand 7270 Clothes Moth Alert Trap. I read the mixed reviews for Safer Brand. Many were promising, but some were halfhearted. Having wrestled with all manner of crawling interlopers in my home (lice, fleas, etc.), I concluded that the less enthusiastic reviews were most likely a result of user error or, at the very least, the purchaser's own lack of diligence in follow through after correctly applying the product. I, on the other hand, am one of those classic obsessive compulsive types who takes on a challenge like this with the determination of a marathon runner (make that "triathlete"). My husband would smirk at such an analogy since the only experience I have that even approximates exercise is the vigorous typing I do on my computer; but, hey, one finds analogies where one can, right? So, on with the story. After reading the instructions and carefully positioning about three traps in every closet of my home, I also followed up with a thorough vacuuming of each closet and put the more seductive wool/silk items into thick, black, plastic bags (the kind you get at the hardware store that are usually called "Contractor's Bags"). I also installed a third tier of defense by placing a few bowls of cedar balls in each closet. Finally, I left one small wool scrap hanging in each closet to lure the moths. I am nothing if not devious. Then, I waited. In fact, I was gone for several weeks on vacation, and when I returned, much moth activity had occurred. The verdict? The traps worked wonderfully when combined with my other "moth attack" measures. The corpses of dead, desiccated moths littered the traps. There were no holes or visible eggs on the wool "lure," but I disposed of those scraps just to be safe. Then, I continued to search for moths in the less accessible parts of the closet--higher up on the walls, in the seams between carpet and baseboard, and in all the ceiling corners. I found no moth activity. I replaced the first batch of traps with a second round after a few months, and I continue to have zero moths to this day. End of story.

Please see my extended (with video) review of the Pro-Pest product.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.