moths really do eat clothes

This has "eat me" written all over it. In a very non sexy kinda way.

i know :(

Have you got pantry moths as well? I chucked away all the food in their fsvourite cupboard and now the pantry moths are all over the house instead of just in the kitchen. It'll be larva time in a few weeks and that's a LOT more unpleasant than the flying balls of dust. I kill about half a dozen moths a day, I reckon.

It sounds like you made a big mistake by angering the pantry moths.

wtf, i read mark's post, thought "i don't have that, thank god" then i went to get tea bags from the cupboard and a moth fluttered out!

Tea Moths

are the pantry moths a different species to the clothes eating ones then? we found an infestation in our vacuum cleaner bag in the kitchen cupboard - now i'm a bit worried about whether i should start throwing food out, just in case...

Moth paranoia really does take hold fast doesn't it?

I've got Buffalo Springfield stuck in my head now:
Moth paranoia strikes deep/ Into your clothes they will creep.

http://johndoe2012.unblog.fr/files/2008/04/mothman2.jpg

Moths, I hate you. Last week a friend dropped by and a moth launched itself off his jumper having got on at his flat minutes before. I had to KILL KILL DIE the thing before I could do anything else.

In my last flat I regularly lost wool clothes to moths: a matching jacket and skirt purchased in two separate countries, a couple of cashmere sweaters, LOTS of ordinary jumpers. That's not counting the woolens I've successfully darned because nothing compels me to get rid of heirloom pieces. So here's my anal guide to clothes preservation:

1. Ziploc bags. Average jumper fits in 2L bag; remove all air and zip that fucker in because moths can't get inside. Also makes my 30+ jumpers easier to jam into one drawer.
2. Moths hate dry cleaning fluid, so clean woolens regularly. If you spill food on woolens or silks and leave it to set in, you are basically yelling DINNERTIME to the mothiverse. Take advantage of bulk clean (where they don't press) and don't let your cleaner put it in a 'dirty' vat of solution. Take stuff to the cleaners once a month.
3. In an ideal world we'd all have cedar closets. Moths hate anything cedar, especially those balls you can get to put in drawers and cedarwood clothes hangers (they are at John Lewis). I'm getting a cedar plank for a shelf and letting it emanate moth-b-gone throughout the closet it's going to live in.
4. If you suspect moths, you need to take all your clothes out of closets and dressers etc and check. The lavender oil or spray with same should be applied to the inside of all wardrobes, closet walls and drawers (that and/or tea tree) before you put anything back in the closet or dresser. Get seams and joins with a Q-tip dipped in lavender oil.
5. I said this was anal...

r.i.p. suit i bought in 1991 ;_;

A woolen jumper had fallen off its hanger and onto the floor of a wardrobe, where it seems to have been munched by clothes moths.

Have spent far too much of this week running things through the washing machine and cleaning and blasting (with a borrowed steam cleaner).

Have gone for the "hardcore" approach (ie. horrible anti-moth chemicals including some moth papers that made my fingers numb) and might follow this with something gentler as a preventative (ie. something aromatherapy-ish).

been seeing this weird shit in my bathroom. thought mistakenly it was like, a dying silverfish or something.

it's fucking casemaking clothes moth larvae.

ew ew ew ew ew ew fucking ew how do I get rid

Weather's been a bit chilly lately so I pulled out a nice woolly jumper I hadn't worn for a while only to discover these devious little bastards have been gorging on it, it's full of holes.