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Old 05-31-2021, 02:51 PM   #1
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The miller moths are back in the Front Range

They are just getting started in the last few days. I have swatted one or two a day this week.
At their worst last year I had great luck trapping 30+ a night in a bucket of soapy water under the white range light in the kitchen. I am going to substitute a UV light bulb for the white bulb and should do even better this year. There's no way to keep them out of the coach and insecticides don't do much to them.
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I swear they can crawl through any opening not welded shut! My experience with them was last year about this time...
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Old 06-01-2021, 09:50 AM   #3
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My DW saw one crawl between the microwave and its cabinet yesterday. They can really hide during the day.
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WORD OF THE DAY: Mottephobia
I swatted the first one I saw this year in the coach yesterday. Tonight, when I turned on the kitchen light 3 of them swarmed around my head. They are here 3 weeks earlier than last year. We are in Loveland, CO now.
I just put a 2 1/2 gallon bucket half full of soapy water(Dawn, of course) up close under the range light under the microwave. I expect to have an increasing number of dead moths in the bucket every morning until they head up into the mountains.
They are hard to swat and easy to stun but hard to kill when you connect. They leave a dusty smear on the wall or furniture which needs to be cleaned up so swatting and insecticides are pretty much a waste of time and effort.
This link has a lot of useful information on the adult army cutworms aka Miller moths.
https://agsci.source.colostate.edu/e...entomologists/
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One of the few things I do not miss about living in Colorado in the front range foothills.
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Man, geez, not that time of year already! Got one the other day, it was pretty evasive for a couple of days but I won. Unfortunately more to come or is it just "Miller" time.
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So far the moths haven't been too bad. I can put up with them. But the wasp have come out early! I've killed 4 in the house so far. I'd rather have moths.
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WORD OF THE DAY: Mottephobia
I swatted the first one I saw this year in the coach yesterday. Tonight, when I turned on the kitchen light 3 of them swarmed around my head. They are here 3 weeks earlier than last year. We are in Loveland, CO now.
I just put a 2 1/2 gallon bucket half full of soapy water(Dawn, of course) up close under the range light under the microwave. I expect to have an increasing number of dead moths in the bucket every morning until they head up into the mountains.
They are hard to swat and easy to stun but hard to kill when you connect. They leave a dusty smear on the wall or furniture which needs to be cleaned up so swatting and insecticides are pretty much a waste of time and effort.
This link has a lot of useful information on the adult army cutworms aka Miller moths.
https://agsci.source.colostate.edu/e...entomologists/
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Well, being just north of you in Cheyenne, we haven't seen any as of yet.

However, I'm sure they will be here soon........Once again. LOL

Curious to know if the water with Dawn in it actually works? I know it kills the hell out of box elder bugs.
Wife always wanders around the outside with a spray bottle of water/Dawn and kills the box elders.
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Well, being just north of you in Cheyenne, we haven't seen any as of yet.



However, I'm sure they will be here soon........Once again. LOL



Curious to know if the water with Dawn in it actually works? I know it kills the hell out of box elder bugs. [emoji23]

Wife always wanders around the outside with a spray bottle of water/Dawn and kills the box elders.
There are a lot fewer of them than last spring when we were camped near Colorado Springs. I would usually dump double figures of dead moths from my bucket into the black tank every morning. The water with Dawn helped keep my liquid level sensors clean and indicating properly.
Tide in the black tank also works well but it doesn't suds up like Dawn does. When the moths accidentally hit the suds they stop moving pretty quickly. I don't know if the chemicals in the suds kills them or immobilizes them until they drown.
I think maybe the almost constant day and night high prevailing westerly winds we have experienced might have made their annual migration much more difficult than previous years.
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