How do you guys deal with bookmoths?

[Anonymous No.20303175]

About 2 years ago I rearanged some stuff in my house and accidentally put a bookshelf too close to a window. It was a week before I realized what I did and all those books got bookmoths. They've spread to all my books and I can't get rid of them. I don't want to kill them, but if you take them outside, you're still never able to make sure you get all their eggs and stuff. I just want to read without bookmoths fluttering out of every other page I turn, bros help

[Anonymous No.20303180]

>I don't want to kill them
You're a sweet man and I wish I knew a way to solve the problem

[Anonymous No.20304163]

I fry them up and eat them

[Anonymous No.20304216]

>>20303175
If you have big enough, cuold you put the books in a ziplock bag for a while? assumadly oxygen is need for them.

hard to do on large scale though.

[Anonymous No.20304221]

>>20303175
>>20304216
actually why not one of those vacuum sealing storage thingies?

[Anonymous No.20304226]

>>20304216
If you have a big enough freezer you can keep them in there. Bonus for keeping the pages from wilting.

[Anonymous No.20304236]

>>20303175
I put all my books in plastic zip lock bags. No issue after half a decade expect the bags needing to be replaced after while.

[Anonymous No.20304248]

>>20304226
wouldnt you have to clean out all frost first?

[Anonymous No.20304274]

>>20304248
You can just blow it out like snow

[Anonymous No.20304280]

>>20304163
That's not nice :(

>>20304216
>>20304226
>>20304221
But I dont want them to suffocate or freeze, I try to set them free out in my garden, but I can never get them all out

[Anonymous No.20304307]

>>20304280
I meant keep your books in a freezer

[Anonymous No.20304315]

Having to finish a book before moths consume it is what gets me to read quicker

[Anonymous No.20304344]

>>20304307
My books are full of bookmoths and bookmoth eggs and bookmoth larvae. I don't think bookmoths can survive in a frezser desu

[Anonymous No.20304353]

>>20304280
Could temperature incentives work? You could do some research on the species and find out whether they hate extremes of hot or cold, then hotbox/icebox the room they're in while leaving an exit and encouraging them to leave through it. Maybe put fans on your books blowing toward the exit so as they go seeking warmer/cooler pastures, they find it difficult to wander except in the direction of the exit, which won't be such a bad thing since they'll feel the temperature difference anyway.

I know people do this for bed bugs, they either cook the apartment or freeze it to encourage the bed bugs to leave I think.

Maybe also put something around the books or on the shelves that the bugs hate to smell. I hear people talking about repelling ants using cinnamon sometimes. I bet there are cocktails of otherwise harmless herbs or something that have at least some claim to efficacy in discouraging moths from landing there.

You may not be able to get them all at once but you can create overall conditions that will dissuade them from continuing on your books. Then as the population dwindles it will probably fail to renew itself, and individual captures and releases will be taking out a larger fraction of the total population each time.

I wonder if you could put a big empty water jug with a very narrow entrance, and put something that entices them into it. People use this method to kill fruit flies, because the fruit flies know how to get in but not how to get out. But instead of killing them you could just lead them in and let them chill in there, and release them periodically.

[Anonymous No.20304392]

>>20304315
I hate when I get to the final pages of the work and half the sentences make no sense because the moths ate out the words.

[Anonymous No.20304400]

>>20304392
If it's a modern work that's likely for the best

[Anonymous No.20304450]

>>20304400
Checked and truthpilled
Fuck modern writers (including myself)

[Anonymous No.20304708]

>bookmoths
what the fuck is this

[Anonymous No.20305309]

Let the moths consume the books and then ask them to tell you the contents.

[Anonymous No.20305603]

got them a few years ago. took all my books to the dump. bought new copies of my faves. needed to cut down on my library anyways.

[Anonymous No.20305649]

>>20303175
Get book spiders

[Anonymous No.20305681]

>>20305649
My mommy is afraid of spiders, I don't want her to be scared every time she walks through the library

>>20305309
Have you learned to speak to your bookmoths? Sometimes I feel like we have this sort of connection, but it might just be in my head

>>20304353
This is some good advice, but these "incentives" feel a little cruel. Honestly the bookmoths have as much right as me to enjoy my books, but they seem to like my garden more. I want them to hang out out there instead, but displacing them with heat or cold feels very mean. I may try the bottle method, though. Right now I just individually catch them in my cupped hands and carry them outside

[Anonymous No.20305702]

>>20305681
>doesn’t want to kill them
>doesn’t want to make them go away
You are fucked then. Insects are about as sentient as a virus. Do you take immunosuppressants and die of the flu to not “hurt” it? Their lifespan is a few days/weeks anyway. You are preventing more deaths than you cause.

[Anonymous No.20306141]

>>20305702
I dont know what kind of bookmoths you've dealt with, but mine are very smart and actually have mourning rituals i've observed when their kin and kith die (through no fault of my own, let that be very clear)
The fact that your bookmoths are dumb and stupid says more about your library than it does about them, desu

[Anonymous No.20306602]

>>20306141
>you are what you eat
KEK

[Anonymous No.20306834]

>>20306141
based

[Anonymous No.20308836]

>>20305681
>speak to your bookmoths? Sometimes I feel like we have this sort of connection, but it might just be in my head
>What book mold does to a mf