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09-23-2022, 06:12 PM #1
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Moths and more moths!
I'm not sure where they are coming from, but for the last 12 nights good sized moths have been appearing inside our trailer. I don't know where they are coming from, but seems as though they appear in front of the TV - maybe only attracted to the light and that's where we see them. I don't know if we inherited them during the build process given ours was built late Dec 21 but this isn't our first long trip in temps ranging from high 30s to near 100. They showed up one at a time at 5 different campgrounds over 3 states from Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska with temps ranging from 48 to 106. Never had more than one at any given moment. They remind me of the November moths we get in New England. Don't seem to have any other bugs getting in other than one or two flies.
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09-23-2022, 06:56 PM #2
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If you can get pictures of them maybe it'll help figure out where they originated. There are always mothballs, if it works?
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09-23-2022, 07:09 PM #3
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09-23-2022, 07:55 PM #4
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Oh man, we had problems with moths too. We think we picked em up in Wyoming and carried them into Montana. We had a huge invasion in Billings where they just kept appearing out of nowhere. We spent a couple hours picking them off with a paper towel one evening.
Eventually we found one that was significantly larger than all the others. Figuring that was the mother ship, we focused on getting that one. Once the mother ship was gone, the numbers of others seemed to taper off.
You can trap them by suspending a light directly above a pan of soapy water. Good luck!2021 Solitude 310GK: Linen/DP windows/gen prep/slide toppers/king bed/EOH disc brakes/Cooper-H tires
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09-23-2022, 08:00 PM #5
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Put a bug light outside and get an electric flyswatter for inside.
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09-23-2022, 09:01 PM #6
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Battery powered vacuum cleaners work well for moths and other flying bugs.
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09-23-2022, 09:37 PM #7
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09-24-2022, 05:30 AM #8
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Google lens came up with either an Beet armyworm or common clothes moth. Either way if the infestation is so bad you need insecticide the article said Spinosad is the safest (it's an organic spray).
I would go through clothing just to be sure they aren't nesting in the the closet or cabinets.
Dealing with insects is never funMarcy & Gary
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09-24-2022, 08:23 AM #9
We had a similar experience in June, we started seeing moths during our stay near Rushmore, then they continued the week we were in Cody. Letting the awning out the first time at Cody we had 6 or 8 fly out of the awning arm.
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09-24-2022, 09:58 AM #10
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Those 'buggers' get everywhere. And then it takes days to get them all! grrrrrr.....
We picked some up once at Fruita, CO along the Colorado river. Beautiful campground but who knew.....?
It's even a bigger treat to get them inside the cab of a newer Ford truck, one with interior motion sensors. Whew..... wait'll those things start flying around at 2:00 a.m. and set off the truck's alarm - the whole campground will 'love' ya for that! The first time that happened it took 3 alarms one night to figure out what was going on.Larry KE4DMG
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