Like most people with a pantry, there are often things in ours like flour or cereals that aren't sealed up all too well, providing a little food haven for the offspring - notice I didn't use the word maggots, that would never do in a foodie kitchen - of the pantry moth.

There are several species of the little beasts, I know that because I read it on the pantry moth trap we just bought. Our species is a small, tan coloured moth with a couple of ivory bars on each wing. The trap is simplicity itself. It is a piece of cardboard that has sticky glue spread on one side to which you attach a scent lure of moth pheromones, then fold up the trap into a triangle tunnel. The moths then fly in, lured by the scent of sex, then become stuck fast to the glue.

The trap works like a charm too. When I checked it yesterday, there were seventeen moth carcasses....but something was puzzling me for I have seen at least three moths nowhere near the pantry since installing the trap.

Might there be gay moths?