moths really do eat clothes

I've lost a few good wool things and a cashmere jumper to the moth menace. Lavender and tea tree oil are supposed to work if you want to stay natural - but I favoured a half-day search and destroy mission, going down seams to find eggs, stamping on anything that flew. It worked-ish, but it was great for sating feelings of revenge.

Kate Moth.

(punchline to a joek I haven't finished yet)

Who goes out with indie pop stars and eats their clothes.

There you go.

"What flies out of a cupboard at 200 miles an hour?"
"Stirling Moth"

^ Noah told that joke on the Ark

how would you find the eggs? i would assume they'd be miniscule. i like the smell of tea tree but i'm not too interested in going natural, i'd rather go medieval.

search for "moth" on boots website brought up one result: a 20 Minute Tiger Moth Flying Lesson for £159.00.

xposts

there were racing cars on the ark?

I still do not believe that moths eat clothes. I mean, come on, who would want to eat clothes?

My house is full of moths - and no holes in my clothes, even though I leave piles of unwashed clothes lying around everywhere.

http://www.choiceful.com/prod_image/75411_x.jpg

They eat clothes... and carpets

spray loads of it everywhere and then go out for a while xpost

That spray turns insects into trolls!

The old-fashioned stinky mothballs have been superseded by odourless ones

Will someone please tell my parents this? Last month they gave me several old boxes of Choose Your Own Adventure books that reek of camphor.

Alba, apparently you can get moth killing stuff in Crockets.

Mothballs are very toxic - I think they're made of naphthalene. We have the moss menace and have lost some good sweaters. Some people store their woolens in cedar chests or put cedar blocks in their drawers cuz moths apparently don't like that smell.

I think moths are out to get us. They eat the clothes that keep us warm in the winter and the leaves that keep us cool in the summer.

Plus they fly into my head and make me shit myself.

Seriously moths are just completely pointless flying balls of dust. Bugger off forever.

You can get'em at the pharmacy and even at big supermarkets.

all of my clothes are on a sort of open wardrobe system! like this:

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

There was one flying around me when I was having a shower this morning. Did it want to eat me?

It probably just wanted to bash into your head.

xpost no, didn't you see it giggling?

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.