Question: I am visiting my mother for the holidays. I’ve discovered that she has an infestation of moths in her kitchen. I tried to go through all her cupboards, but she said she would finish the ...

At some point, almost everyone has problems with the Indian meal moth. The pest is commonly brought to the home through infested packaged foods, birdseed or dog food. Contaminated food can bring eggs ...

Q:We have moths in our house. We don’t know what they are and where they came from. They are about as big as a horse fly, sort of, and they have powdery wings like a moth. Can you help? A:Yes — after ...

I recently found some small wormy things crawling along my ceiling. Should I call an exterminator? — Jim of Slate Hill Of course, without seeing a sample it is not possible to positively identify your ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A number of pesky intruders can make their way into your kitchen, which can leave you wondering how to ...

Question: I opened a bag of rice and discovered several small tiny light-colored worms. Lately, I also have noticed moths which I thought was unusual for this time of year. Are they related and how do ...

DEAR JOAN: Over the past six months I have found a half dozen of what look like quarter-inch-long pieces of gray fuzzy lint on the walls around my house. At first I thought that was exactly what it ...

I have pantry moths in my kitchen. Again. I had them couple of years ago, got everything cleaned up and didn’t see any more until last month. All at once there were lots of them. I thought I was being ...

Q: I live in a 75-year-old brick Colonial. About 10 years ago, I left a bag of unsterilized sunflower birdseed in my basement, and thus began a continuing battle to rid my house of Indian meal moths.

We've had two encounters with meal moths. One was seriously bad, the other educational. Meals moths can arrive with the bird seed you buy. Suppliers are careful to exclude the pests, but once in a ...

Insects in the kitchen are almost never a welcome sign. The reason is very simple: the bugs that frequent your kitchen are after the same thing you are—food. Some will swarm around your fruit ...