Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Are they actually eating things though?
Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?
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Are they actually eating things though?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
You open the door for them and they still miss! 🤦♂️🤣
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
In Hebden Bridge they ate all my woollen clothing then the woollen carpet!
I don't know what they are eating here - pretty much no wool left!
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Might just be moths generally, provide a lamp for them somewhere out of the way instead and be done with it.
What species are they, as only a very few actually eat clothes and so on?
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
I'm more slightly worried than annoyed that I spotted 2 small moths hanging around my tweed, wool, linen and silk clothing yesterday.We have a moths eating clothes problem in the retro clothing shop I work in, with the owner constantly battling to keep them at bay. Those 2 I saw might not be natural fibers eating moths and just part of the insect influx we get in our homes in the summer and I've never had a problem with them before, but I'll be keeping an eye open for possibly seeing more than 1 or 2 in my flat.
I've seen a lot more recently as well. Also, there's a woman who comes to the gym and always smells of mothballs. Perhaps there is an infestation in Birmingham as well?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I have no idea, but they look exactly like the little wool munching ones that have been plaguing me since the late 1990s!! They hide and breed in dark places.
classic33
Leg End Member
Sounds like parts of Todmorden...
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, I am hiding away here, but I am definitely not breeding!
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Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
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lazybloke
Ginger biscuits and cheddar
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Funnily enough, I had just taken a picture of one and came back on to post it!
That is about 7 mm long.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
A Micro Moth, thanks, although, that's Terry, he's a solid geezer him!
Can you get more detail though?
Thanks.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
That sounds even worse than the retro clothing shop I work in!
I didn't see any possibly natural fiber eating moths in my flat yesterday, so that's promising news. I shook a few clothing items to see if any moths flew off but nothing flew out, though I've read that it's the larvae that eats the fibers, not the adult moths so maybe they've laid some of the buggers in/on my clothes and fecked off to do the same elsewhere.
