Rich,

I really appreciate your response. That is very helpful. See my responses below.

• Is the house a second home or one that you have not been home for a little while? This is a second home. Generally, we get to the house once a month, but due to a surgery we were not in the house from August 17^th and November 27^th.
• Is the house on a raised foundation with a crawl space below? The house is on a raised foundation with a crawlspace.
• Have you seen any signs of moths in the house? Generally no. It is central Oregon so we get the occasional moths and other insects but singular and larger. We have never seen just the wings before.
• Will you check out your pantry closet and look closely at food packages to see if they are infected with moths? We looked and it doesn’t look like there are moths present. In our home in Portland we have experienced a weevils /moths infestation. In that case we would see a moth or two flying around near the pantry and dead ones in the kitchen area along with webbing in food containers. We haven’t see any of that here.
• Do you have clothing with any kind of fur or animal parts. We do not have any fur or animal items in the house.
• Do you have mice or have found signs of mice? We haven’t seen any sign of mice in the house. I am pretty sure of that since I grew up with a mother that had an extreme phobia of mice, everywhere we rented on vacation, us kids had to go through the unit cupboards and rooms to clear for mouse sign (I know “too much information”).

The one common item is the wings all were located by the vents around the house. The large piles of wings were on a certain branch of the vents and the wings in the other parts of the house were less. Possibly there could be mice in the vents that have been feeding on the moths and they happen to blow out of the vents when the heat started to come on (since we were gone during the transition from no use of the furnace in August through Sept/Oct to November).

I think you have answered the most important part of our question, that they are moths so not an insect that creates structural damage. We will keep a close eye on our food storage. We don’t want an infestation of that. I do know that in Central Oregon there are significant hatches (not so sure about moths in general) since I am an avid, long-time, fly fisherman, but as you mentioned, moths wouldn’t have had a hatch and then drop their wings.

If you have any further insights or comments that would be great. Again, your information was very useful.

Best,

Paul

Paul D. Waldram

Partner

PDW International, LLC

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