Trouser moth...

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Growster...

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Trouser moth...
« on: July 28, 2024, 06:12 »
I was chatting with a lovely chum last evening, we went on for ages, talking about this and that as we do, and we both discovered that we had this insect, (or whatever a 'moth' is in legal terms), getting at our vegetables, mainly PSB, and funnily enough, courgettes, and even after Googling the issue, we couldn't work out what or where it came from!

I know that the pong of mothballs used to permeate the wardrobes of ancient relatives, but to have one's veg attacked by a similar pest seems very odd! 

Has anyone else got this problem? 

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Re: Trouser moth...
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2024, 09:39 »
Ah, the ubiquitous trouser moth! I believe it originated in America (sorry, don't know the zip code) and it's type of fly (get it?!) now quite common in Britain. It has a unique way of mimicking other pests but is immune to most pesticides at the moment. It can completely decimate PSBs and other related crops. As to utilizing moth balls, I didn't know they had any but it's always worth a try.
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