They showed up the last week of May and every night I am armed with my weapon of choice - the fly swatter - and I kill every single miller moth in the house that I can find. In the mornings I open the french doors to let cats out and there is always a cloud of millers trying to escape the safety of the door jamb where they have nestled into for the night. Morning murders are especially fun because I have help - the meadowlarks (Kansas' official state bird) will swoop down and pick them out of the air for a tasty morning treat.
Just the other night before I went to bed there were no less than 6 in my bedroom and that is a sacred room where no miller moths are allowed to live for any length of time. I killed 5 almost immediately as they were gathered around the door. Easy targets really, hardly any sport in the murder spree.
Then last night it was another onslaught in my bedroom but this time I was ready for them. I had finally found my backup fly swatter and was armed as I entered the room. I used the bathroom light to lure them away from my bed.
They have also invaded the office and so I have a secondary murder location with dead miller moth bodies strew about. I think it is almost time for a clean up and that will require enlisting the help of the vacuum cleaner to help me dispose of the bodies and leave no trace of them behind or the murderous carnage that I bestowed upon them.
There will be window washing and possibly curtain washing as well before the cleanup is all finished but for now I fondly look forward to the end of this season because I am just getting to old for all of this.
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