Night of the Living Dead Moth Attack!!

Last night we found out our screens don't work really well. There was a thunderstorm, and some rain - finally! A wonderful relief to the heat, and the smell of the sweet grass and hay in the rain was wonderful. Our RV Park is right on the Yellowstone River, and apparently, there was also a hatch last night.

We had our windows open for the breeze and our lights on inside the RV, and we suddenly noticed the screens weren't holding the thousands of small moths on the outside.... it was like a horror movie! the door screen was absolutely covered with moths and there was a small gap in the screen at the top where it was coming out of its frame. They were crawling through this gap, like orcs breaching the wall at Helm's Deep... AAAAAHHHH!

Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating just a bit - ha. But we did see several places in the screens that either were loose from the frame or where the screen frame didn't sit tight against the weatherstripping against the window, where they were getting in. This made us think we need to fix that before going to Alaska, and having mosquitoes, which would be FAR worse, pour in through the leaky screens! Worse because they are smaller and not as easy to notice, and of course, because of the whole biting and itching thing.

I ended up using the vacuum cleaner to get rid of the moths - some survived and could be seen fluttering around in the clear dust container, poor things. Vaczilla won out over Mothra's progeny - Tokyo (and the Moho) was saved!