BugMD Clothes Moth Boss Traps - Sticky Glue Bug Repellent Pheromone Attractor for Closets Wardrobes Cabinet Drawers, Moth Balls for Closet, Moth Traps with No Harsh Chemicals

If you keep any natural diver clothing in storage or even in your own closet - these are worth getting to catch bugs and moths. If you keep things in any kind of off-site storage place, a definite must.

Just in time for the spring bug season, here are the results of a 10 month comparative test between the BugMD vs Ecotastic traps. Ecotastic is a highly rated 4.3 vs 4.2 respectively but less expensive competitor. Spoiler alert - you get what you pay for. In some closets, the traps were right next to each other. In some closets, the traps were across from each other. It did not seem to matter whether the traps BugMD caught 77 and the competitor 40, or 4 vs 2. It's fairly consistent, BugMD is twice as attractive than the other. The traps with 77 and 40, each had 2 live moths, so both were still doing their job after 10 months. In yet another closet, I placed a year old BugMD noting the number of previously caught moths vs a new Ecotastic. Here, the Ecotastic caught 17 vs 10 (additional) for the year old BugMD. There are several conclusions that can be inferred from this data. A year+ old trap can still catch bugs. Traps tend to lose attaction over time, specifically after a year. In the future, I will spend more for the BugMD traps, and forgo the competition. I will put out new traps in the spring knowing that's when they will be most effective. I will keep them in service for an entire year. Lightly loaded, year old traps may be reused for an extra year in less important closets. In case you think location matters moths infestations, these tests were conducted near humid Baltimore 35 feet above sea level and 100 yards from a brackish Chesapeake tributary. If it was only this easy to catch Putin.

I don’t understand how, but they do indeed work. Note it just catches the moths. The key is to find where they’re emanating from. Find the source. Once you kill all the larvae by using STA spray, they’ll be gone for good.

This product is good and it does work! However, I took one star off, because the seller needs to educate people on what the life of the moth is, and why these may appear not to be working. If you have a minute or two, I can save you tons of research and give you hope that you might eventually clear up the problem. But if you think it's a couple day solution, you're in for a big disappointment. Here's the reason these appear not to be working...when you see no flying moths, it may mean the moths have died off at the moment, so of course this trap is not going to catch them. But before the moth was flying around, it was a larvae and before that it was an egg. So the moth lays about 50 eggs. They are tiny and often look more like dandruff on a dark surface. The eggs are not eating your clothes, but if they are left to become larvae, those are the ones that eat the fabrics and damage everything. Once they become a moth, they have no mouth to eat and do not eat anything...they don't live very long. The only threat the moth is, is if they haven't yet laid the eggs to start the next cycle. So if the closet has no moths and you remove the traps too soon, of course you'll think they don't work. A full moth cycle is 16 to 28 days. So several cycles could be in process in your closet from different moths and will mature at different times. See why they're so hard to get rid of? It's essential you clean everything out of the closet! Clothes need washed and even that doesn't guarantee you get all the eggs. They can survive even hot water for a short time, but most likely won't. Once stuff is washed or dry cleaned, store them in plastic tubs or heavy plastic bags. The floors of the closet must be cleaned very thoroughly as a tiny little crack can hold tons of eggs and they like dark crevices! I used bleach too! Make sure shelves are cleaned thoroughly. If possible, keep stuff out of the closet...I know that's not always possible. If you have carpeting, be careful what you set on the carpeting, as you can transfer eggs to carpet and they will eat the carpet fibers too! If possible, shampoo suspected areas of infection. Don't use soap. For fifty years, I've used nothing but hot water and clear ammonia to clean carpets and it's way better than soapy detergents, but here's a disclaimer...to be safe, test a hidden area of the rug before shampooing. I've never had it damage any carpet by using it, but just to be safe... Use about a half cup in the hot water. The larvae stage is fairly easy to spot. If for example, you open a light colored blanket and see spots like black pepper specks or even larger and there's a smeared look, those are the start of them eating away! Larvae are white little shiny things with a black head. And to be honest, you may very well lose some items. I had to throw out tons of blankets, coats, even boots! They will eat a lot of things besides wool or natural fabrics too. I have all Vellux blankets...which are made with nylon on the outside and a foam layer inside. They devoured tons of the nylon! So settle in for the long haul. It doesn't matter how clean you are, and I'm the queen of clean, anyone can get pantry or closet moths. Now for one more helpful tip: I hesitate to give my secret, because I don't want the price to go up, but get a can of *** any brand Kitchen Botanical spray. (may be only one manufacturer). It's made to kill fruit flies and insects and be safe to spray around food. No harmful chemicals! That doesn't mean it smells pleasant, but it's not too bad really. But it will stop anything flying in its tracks! If it flies, all they have to do is fly through the mist and in a minute they are dead. So it will kill the flying things. I spray the closet with it too, in the hopes it's toxic for the larvae too. One more thing...there's a lot of talk about cedar wood helping to protect from moths, also lavender, herbals scents and essential oils. Testing in labs found these to be ineffective, for various reasons I won't go into. Also, moth balls are toxic in many ways, and are designed to be used in a totally air tight space. Most don't use them that way and therefore they are more harmful than effective or helpful. Just quoting research here. Plus, you'll never get the smell of mothballs out of anything! Hope this helps others to understand what to do, and I'm wanting to give everyone suffering with these, hope. It's so not fun! So good luck and may we all be moth free!

We thought we only had a few of the little pesky moths ... I opened the package and all of a sudden had about 20 flying around and they went right to the traps!! Have not seen many since. Bought another pkg.