CLOTHES MOTHS: FACT VS. FICTION

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• AY

  @aylmao6647 · 2 years ago

  I started crocheting recently and I have a moth problem, and just had mentally 0 energy to deal with it, but also too anxious to leave my yarn to lay around so I store it in a suitcase... And come to check every few weeks if it&apos;s safe.. I just keep remembering my favorite cashmere sweater with 16 bite-sized holes rotting away in my grandma&apos;s apartment.<br>Gotta finally drink 3 cups of coffee and start tackling this 😂

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• LA

  @labyrinthwomb · 5 years ago

  Two years later, and I keep coming back to this video again and again and sending it to people who tell me to ward off moths by putting &nbsp;cedar chips in my closet. This video is the gift that keeps on giving. &lt;3

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• JO

  @joycekilmartin5411 · 2 years ago

  Thank you. &nbsp;Very professional. We have had an infestation of clothes moths for almost a year now. Tried everything--cleaning , washing, vinegar, freezing, steaming, and even bought this giant oven and cooked all our clothes at over 120°. Traps all over every room and closet. We make some headway, but they replenish themselves. Just recently learned about parasitic wasps, called trichogramma. They eat larva. They are so small that you can&apos;t see them. &nbsp;Noticing a big difference after the weeks. Will keep it up for at least 6 weekly introduction of new wasps. <br>Also, the electrified fly swatters that you&apos;ve probably seen, kills larva in rugs if you get on your hands and knees and run the face back and forth on the carpet. &nbsp;They flash and burn. &nbsp;It&apos;s very effective. &nbsp;If course there are plenty of places you can&apos;t do this, but it&apos;s great fur rugs, cushions, spreads, and blankets. Hope this will help some. Moths are a nasty problem.

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• JO

  @josmith2002 · 3 years ago

  Hanging bunches of tobacco leaves in wardrobes has resulted in no holes in clothes therein. It is supposedly what Persian rug merchants used to protect their rugs. But the problem now seems to be that we all just own toooooo much stuff— it fills our homes and infests our cities— unlike in the past when people owned less and had time to properly air and sun and look after everything 🥺

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• PU

  @PushPastME · 7 years ago

  I can&apos;t express how much I appreciate your scientific approach to videos like this (scouring peer-reviewed and scholarly sources for accurate information and dispelling common myths). There is so much misinformation floating around and I think it&apos;s largely because a lot of people don&apos;t know how OR don&apos;t care/want to search through scientific research data.

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• NA

  @nataliezubrzycka59 · 2 years ago

  Amazing! Thank you so much!! The only solid knowledge material I found so far!❤

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• DA

  @Danny-ti1vt · 3 years ago

  Thank you so much for dispelling common myths around these creatures. Very informative and helpful.

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• AS

  @askalice7222 · 6 years ago

  I guess then I&apos;m one of those rare cases.<br>A severe moth infestation occured (I&apos;m assuming) when one of our cats was ill and vomiting and urinating on stored wool rugs. During this time over a period of 3 years i had become very ill and &nbsp;physically incapacitated. &nbsp;If my husband knew about it he didnt say a word. He also does not clean.<br><br>Now I&apos;m dealing with this and i can tell you what i have found. And I&apos;ll add I&apos;ve made and investigated all of these by myself. &nbsp;I got to know the larvae up close with one of the wool rugs that was completely destroyed. Very little fabric was left to hide them in some areas. And it&apos;s rather morbidly fascinating after i got over the initial revulsion.<br><br>I know the larvae can chew through almost anything.<br> They can chew through antlers and horns as you said so certainly this is true.<br>I have it so severe i have had to put my tobacco in old plastic prescription bottles. And guess what they borrowed into the seam of the bottle and chewed through just under the lid. They LOVE tobacco. I even tried a glass jelly jar with a metal cap. Yep. Same M.O. they got in. They do prefer following straight lines.<br>I know they&apos;re in the cigarette because the end of it will have a bent indent at the seam and eventually one will make its way up to the filter to form its cocoon. There will be a dark spot on the filter paper and upon lighting the cigarette the smoke is thick, heavy and tastes like utter crap. People i told thought i was nuts and at the time i couldn&apos;t prove it. Now i have a Carson Microbrite 120x magnifier if anyone is in doubt!!<br>Upon squishing the paper and bit of tobacco (or whatever fabric) they are cocooned in under magnification you will see the blood and always this yellow goo.<br>Another thing I&apos;d like to share is I found them living in and on the clothes hangers themselves. Plastic, metal and wood alike. <br>Well you likely won&apos;t see the larvae but evidence of them. <br>To check spray vinegar on the hanger and listen if it fizzes. It may start to bubble at the seams if really filthy.<br>Other tips:<br>-Vinegar is a godsend for killing them. <br>-Use a 60x magnification to search for the little holes and the excrement left behind. On the hangers, the clothes, everything. -Also dark brownish sticky patches not sure if from where the eggs were laid. ?<br>-Spraying vinegar on suspected infested towels/fabric actually reveals the filthy spots while killing larvae and eggs. <br>Hope this helps someone. Ive had to search long and hard and it shouldn&apos;t be that way. Why there is missing information on this subject is frustrating and somewhat suspicious imo.<br><br>Thank you so much as yours is the FIRST detailed account I&apos;ve found. &nbsp;I&apos;ve spent over 5 months &amp; countless hours on the internet on this now. Should have checked YouTube first!!<br>Very grateful in #8 Minneapolis MN!

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• MA

  @maragrace820 · 5 years ago

  My parents were tailors and only used the most exclusive wools and silks. I can assure you the eat clean wool. They also have a good palate. The higher the price of the wool, the fastest it was destroyed.<br>Parents used many tricks, one of which was to put newspapers between fabrics.

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• SH

  @shafserious2805 · 1 year ago

  We need a video like this on Bed bugs! The ultimate pest.

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• JA

  @JaysonXGucciGhost · 2 years ago

  THIS is the exact indepth video I needed! A social psychologist is the perfect person to explain this to a Virgo who prefers &nbsp;deeply researched, near empirical data vs “anomalies driven to hysteria then assumed to be wide spread fact.” You rock, lady! 😎🤘🏾

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• AN

  @annesherfield5778 · 11 days ago

  great video - one of the best places for reasonable advise and complete information about these moths