Moths

[THE FIFER]

spray the nooks and gaps in ur loft with household fly spray, u will see them and any other creature coming out and dopping to the floor dead,

[Guest TAMMY_1]

 

Another suggestion would be encourage bats in your area if possible, we have some bat boxes in the trees, this also keeps the midges down as well

 

can u buy the bats Dovescot ?

[Guest]

simple why not got to b&q buy a couple of tubes of mastik and seal up all the wee nooks and crannies that will stop them sheltering in ya loft ;)

[Guest Paulo]

I've no doubt that holes in feathers would be a problem to both race- and show pigeons, Chrissy, and like anyone else I'd be getting to the bottom of what was causing it.

 

If you go back to schooldays you'll recognise the moth as belonging to the grub & chrysalis mob - the caterpillar that eats itself out of its suit every couple of days then goes into chrysalis stage to change into the adult - a moth.

 

The only mouth parts a moth has is a tube for sucking fluids, usually plant fluids at that. No way it can bite, so can't cause holes, and there is nothing fluid or edible above the level of the bird's skin on a feather for it to gorge on, even if it could.

 

This is an extract from Wikipedia:-

 

"Despite being framed for eating clothing, most moth adults do not eat at all. Most like the Luna, Polyphemus, Atlas, Prometheus, Cercropia, and other large moths don't have mouths. When they do eat, moths will eat nectar. Only one species of moth eat wool. The adults do not eat but the larvae will eat through wool clothing."

 

biggest cause of nibbled feathers is mice little shites. I don't like moths either I love wathcing them run when the durimitex is broken out

[Clarkey1990]

 

biggest cause of nibbled feathers is mice little shites. I don't like moths either I love wathcing them run when the durimitex is broken out

 

I dont think a pigeon would go near a mice for it to be nibbled.

[DOVEScot]

 

you tried racing the bats yet dovescot

 

No, but I bet the little bliters would beat the pigeons ;D ;D ;D

[DOVEScot]

 

they cant see there way home  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;Dnight flyer  

 

No true sammy, its a myth that bats are blind

[DOVEScot]

 

can u buy the bats Dovescot ?

 

Try Ebay ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

Put up bat boxes and you'll soon get them, switch on a light and watch them feed, never had a moth in the loft yet even though we stay on the edge of a large woodland area, when they've finished all the moths they dine on the "midges"