Loads of tiny moths

[Dogbash]

Hi all, I have a problem with loads of tiny moths in my house. Mainly seen to be all over the windows. Not sure what they are, they are very small probably around 5-7mm in length and 2mm in width. I’ve taken some pics below although not very clear due to them being so small. How do I get rid of them?

[finlo]

Vacuum?

[8-P]

Fire is the only answer given this is PH

[98elise]

Dogbash said:

Hi all, I have a problem with loads of tiny moths in my house. Mainly seen to be all over the windows. Not sure what they are, they are very small probably around 5-7mm in length and 2mm in width. I’ve taken some pics below although not very clear due to them being so small. How do I get rid of them?

Look under and behind furniture for the eggs or cocoons. Then hoover them up. Check everywhere!

We had carpet moths and they decimated the wool carpets under our our sofas.

[wyson]

Do a google lens search with a close up image. See what sort of moth it is, then investigate.

I’ve heard of carpet, food, clothes and wood moth infestations.

[Ace-T]

Vacuum thoroughly, put lavender everywhere. Putting lavender oil on cotton balls in areas where moths have been spotted is effective at preventing more damage because moths don't like the scent.

Sprigs of Lavandula X Intermedia lavender plant variety is effective due to its camphor content, which moths really dislike.

[Silvanus]

That looks to be a Mompha moth of some species or other, difficult to tell which one as there are loads. You don't happen to have willowherb growing nearby in the summer?

[DonkeyApple]

Dogbash said:

Hi all, I have a problem with loads of tiny moths in my house. Mainly seen to be all over the windows. Not sure what they are, they are very small probably around 5-7mm in length and 2mm in width. I’ve taken some pics below although not very clear due to them being so small. How do I get rid of them?

As others have said, find out which moth it is as a first step. They look too dark to be clothes moths or at least the ones I was blighted with at one point.

It sounds like they've hatched in the house so by knowing what type of moth you can start knowing how to kill off the future batches. For example, you may have brought some new pot plants into the house in recent weeks and the eggs were in the soil, or they could be a type of clothing moth that began with rodent corpses in the loft and has escaped into the main house to dine on the carpets under furniture etc.

My experience has been that once flying there isn't a huge amount to be done, the key is to kill them before or as they hatch. I used a pet spray in the rooms on any carpet that was under furniture as the clothes moths eggs are laid in the dark and sent off woolens to the dry cleaners as well as spraying inside all the wardrobes. Keeping wool clothes in bags such as suits in suit carriers and jumpers seldom used in vacuum bags while ridding the home but I've found that despite the name it's the carpet edges they plumb for.

[Silvanus]

DonkeyApple said:

As others have said, find out which moth it is as a first step. They look too dark to be clothes moths or at least the ones I was blighted with at one point.

It sounds like they've hatched in the house so by knowing what type of moth you can start knowing how to kill off the future batches. For example, you may have brought some new pot plants into the house in recent weeks and the eggs were in the soil, or they could be a type of clothing moth that began with rodent corpses in the loft and has escaped into the main house to dine on the carpets under furniture etc.

My experience has been that once flying there isn't a huge amount to be done, the key is to kill them before or as they hatch. I used a pet spray in the rooms on any carpet that was under furniture as the clothes moths eggs are laid in the dark and sent off woolens to the dry cleaners as well as spraying inside all the wardrobes. Keeping wool clothes in bags such as suits in suit carriers and jumpers seldom used in vacuum bags while ridding the home but I've found that despite the name it's the carpet edges they plumb for.

If they are a type of Mompha, which I have a feeling they are, they won't have hatched indoors.

I'd imagine they would have come in late last year and hidden themselves away somewhere warm and dark where they won't have get disturbed.

Now is the time of year where they will want to get back outside and find their preferred plant species and start to breed. Then the cycle will repeat.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is rose bay willow herb nearby.