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Old 05-14-2023, 11:27 PM
 
Location: Canada
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I'm keeping count of the number of moths I've killed. That number now stands at eleven. I killed my ninth this morning, just before I got into the shower, in my bathroom, and two more this evening. I wouldn't be surprised if the number gets to 20 or even 30 by the time they are finished migrating.
Why are you and other people killing them? They're migrating pollinators and they're a very important food source for other wildlife. What harm are they doing to humans when they're migrating and will be leaving the area very, very soon? It's not like they're going to stay. They aren't laying eggs, they aren't eating crops or anything else except nectar from flowers during their migration and they're pollinating flowers everywhere they stop as they migrate. So what's the big problem with migrating Miller moths?

I don't get it. First people destroy the Monarchs, now people destroy the Millers.

Are you people afraid of nature or do you just enjoy killing things?

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Old 05-15-2023, 07:07 AM
 
Location: Santa Fe, NM
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Why are you and other people killing them? They're migrating pollinators and they're a very important food source for other wildlife. What harm are they doing to humans when they're migrating and will be leaving the area very, very soon? It's not like they're going to stay. They aren't laying eggs, they aren't eating crops or anything else except nectar from flowers during their migration and they're pollinating flowers everywhere they stop as they migrate. So what's the big problem with migrating Miller moths?

I don't get it. First people destroy the Monarchs, now people destroy the Millers.

Are you people afraid of nature or do you just enjoy killing things?

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Most people don't like them in their homes, and once they are in there their migration is over anyway. I personally don't kill them. I try to catch them by putting a cup over them and then slide a piece of cardboard under it when I have them trapped, then I put them back outside.
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Old 05-15-2023, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Manitou Springs
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Most people don't like them in their homes, and once they are in there their migration is over anyway. I personally don't kill them. I try to catch them by putting a cup over them and then slide a piece of cardboard under it when I have them trapped, then I put them back outside.
Agree ... if they're inside your home, that's as far as they're getting. If there's lots of them, trying to catch and release could get old.

I thought they weren't in my neighborhood, but as I'm outside using and moving garden stuff around, cleaning the porch and yard, they're everywhere. I pick something up and they come flying out. So far haven't spotted any in the house. I think the birds are taking care of most of them.
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Old 05-16-2023, 09:30 PM
 
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Most people don't like them in their homes, and once they are in there their migration is over anyway. I personally don't kill them. I try to catch them by putting a cup over them and then slide a piece of cardboard under it when I have them trapped, then I put them back outside.

Agreed. And the number we have killed is now up to eighteen. I killed five today alone, and my stepmother killed two.
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Old 05-17-2023, 06:54 AM
 
Location: Santa Fe, NM
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Had about 20 in my house last night.
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Old 05-17-2023, 07:18 AM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Most people don't like them in their homes, and once they are in there their migration is over anyway. I personally don't kill them. I try to catch them by putting a cup over them and then slide a piece of cardboard under it when I have them trapped, then I put them back outside.
Is there another way to kick them out of the house? They're too fast for the cup and there are too many.
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Old 05-17-2023, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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I turn a light on in one room all night so they go there. I catch and let go if they are on my TV or in a window.
Easy peasy. (I don't have that many) ..I unplugged my 7watt night lights.
At least they aren't those huge Hummingbird moths!!!

Time for Yellow light bulbs outside today!
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Old 05-17-2023, 10:03 AM
 
Location: Middle America
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They seemed to have come in much earlier this year, at least in the upper part of the state. Early May rather than the end of May. It's weird how different they are from the thousands of other species of moths, which do not try to come inside.
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Old 05-18-2023, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Southwestern, USA, now.
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WHAT a diff after I put in the yellow outdoor bulbs!! Yay!
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Old 05-18-2023, 04:26 PM
 
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The number of dead moths in my house is now up to 20. I flushed out one this morning, that was already dead, and killed another this evening.
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