where do moths come from?!

Grimbal

Ok, not in the "mummy moth loves daddy moth very much" sense, but more where do the little blighters live during the day only to pop up overnight?

We're currently "welcoming" 1 or 2 rather large furry friends every day. They turn up in the bathroom, which is windowless. It's a fairly new house (5yo), so no real nooks or crannies for them to hide out in. We've tried leaving the bathroom door open, and we've tried leaving it closed, yet we still get the moths! The only common theme is that they are usually in the shower cubicle in the morning.

It may sound trivial to some, but I really don't like them. I don't know why, never had an upbringing that sensitised me to them, but I get all a bit unnecessary when I see one. Any help or advice on tracking down where they are coming from would be very much appreciated.

TIA

Liz
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hazybubbles

Is there an extractor fan they could be coming through?

Grimbal

ooo, yes! I don't know where the fan ducting exits the house, but I suppose that this could well be a route. I'm thinking that there are too many coming in to be a random entering of the ducting, rather that there must have been some sort of moth "party house" set up in there. Any ideas how I would try to establish if there were a lot of frat-boy-moths setting up home in there & how I would evict them?

TIA

liz
x

maninthestreet

Are you leaving the light on in the bathroom which is then attracting the moths to enter via the extractor fan duct??

ormus

where do moths come from?
from mummy and daddy moths.

Grimbal

maninthestreet wrote: »

Are you leaving the light on in the bathroom which is then attracting the moths to enter via the extractor fan duct??

the light only goes on when we need it (it's an internal room), then gets turned off after ablutions. The bathroom is an internal room & the extractor fan sits in the ceiling, so I'm assuming that the ducting goes into the roof space and then across to an outside wall. I can't imagine that much light gets reflected via this though?

Grimbal

ormus wrote: »

where do moths come from?
from mummy and daddy moths.

only when they love each other very much & get married you know...

CharlieBilly

I will send me cat down to your house he loved eating them

He got one other night about a inch long he kept jumping up in air to catch it when it was low enough

Moths seem to get into the tiniest of gaps, I leave windows open during day when in closing them a little to leave a small gap of around 1cm and they still come in

modelreject

I'm no expert but there are many differnet types of moths. We had moths in our clothes a while back. They laid eggs which hatched into larvae. Horrible. Had to get clothes dry cleaned. Nightmare! These types hide during the day and don't like light, unlike the ones you will see in the evening beating against your window to get into the bathroom or somewhere becuase you have the light on.