Clothes Moths
Q: Help! We have worms/moths eating our clothes. I don't know where they came from. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of them? I have even found them in the dresser drawers as well as the closet. It bothers me because my house is clean. I have even seen
A: natural or un-natural?
1)natural way is to use ceder wood chips in your clothing. the oily smell hurts the bugs breathing but smells good to us.
2)un-natural way is to use moth flakes, they kill the larve by messing with their breathing
I live in a small block of flats and me and my neighbours have had a problem with the infestation of clothes moths now for over a year. they continunally come into my flat from under the carpets and have already eaten bits out of my carpets as they
It seems no one is safe from the pests. Last May, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs earned the nickname of “Ministry for Moths” when its Westminster headquarters had to be fumigated because of an infestation. British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman declared war on the pests after they destroyed her Jean Paul Gaultier jumpers, while Baroness Betty Boothroyd has been spotted buying insecticide to kill off moths that devoured her ceremonial robes. And here at The Daily Telegraph headquarters in Victoria, we’re sharing our office with a swarm of the insects, intent on eating their way through coats, chairs and carpets.
Felt-lined keyboard. Please mention if you own a piano, or have had to care for one. They like the felt strip on my Yamaha P-85 electric piano. I need to kill the webring clothes moth larvae and leave a residual to prevent future ones.
I want to protect my clothes from moths, but I am not sure when to put moth repellent in my wardrobe and chest of draws. Do clothes moths cause damage mainly in the summer, or in winter, or all the year round?
I live in South-East England.
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GR, Petaluma A: Fabric pests feed on a variety of organic materials, including cotton products, wool products, animal fur, feathers, clothing, carpeting, draperies and other fabrics. Most fabric pests are either clothes moths or carpet (dermestid) |
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What were once considered musty places where battlers would go to dig through boxes of moth-eaten clothes, op shops have also defied the doom and gloom in the retail sector. 'For lease' signs erected on well-known retailers' shopfronts are becoming |
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Also, leaving your wool, cashmere and specialty fabric clothing out during the summer -- when bugs are more prevalent -- could leave you with moth holes when you pull those garments out later in the year. THE CLOTHING 'BUG' Many fabrics are edible and |
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“But I don't think the moths are that big a deal. Every year, there's something different.” Clawson said the cutworm doesn't eat holes in clothing and are totally unrelated to the common wool moth or clothes moths. He said the cutworm is nocturnal, |
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Then, as now, increased light sensitivity attracts photographers like moths to a candle. Within a year or two, dry plate photography had largely replaced the collodion process. In 1879, George Eastman invented a coating machine that mass produced dry |
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A number of Enid and area residents are witnessing an invasion that has some catching and releasing, others swinging fly-swatters and most ducking and cringing as the pesky creatures fly out of curtains and folded clothes. Miller moths, also known as |
@ flies and moths die at my hands... They spread disease or eat my clothes. I love you but on this we have to disagree! ;)
@ Your welcome. It still laid eggs on your clothes. In a few weeks you'll have huge moths fluttering around your room
I'm glad moths are disappearing gradually. Anything that eats clothes deserves to die,
lol moths think clothes are food 
moths are so scary & they eat you clothes