Woolen clothing makes for an especially convenient meal. But clothes-moth larvae will also happily eat carpets and rugs woven with animal hair—as well as upholstered furniture, wool insulation ...

As Julia Dee, founder of Total Wardrobe Care, explains: “Moths love warmer ... and expecting your dog not to eat it!” she adds. When storing your off-season clothes away, Williams suggests ...

They don’t, technically. It’s actually their larvae, or caterpillars, that eat clothes, not the adult moths.It’s only a relatively small group of moths, the family Tineidae, that have any ...

The two moths most commonly found in UK homes doing damage to natural fibres are the common clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) and the case-bearing clothes moth (Tinea pellionella). It is the ...

Here in the UK we tend to think of butterflies as colourful insects flitting about country meadows, whereas we see moths as dull, brown pests that eat our clothes. Alessandro Giusti, Curator of Moths ...