If clothes moths (or their larvae) are chomping through your best sweaters and jackets, don’t freak out. Here’s how to get rid of them.

Moths eggs are tiny—usually between 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters in size—making them extremely difficult to see, but you might spot the webbing that larvae leave behind on your clothes.

Wondering how to rid your closet of the webbing clothes moth? Maybe it’s time to learn to live with them—they can boost ecosystems and could help eat heavy metals. Home .

If you spot holes in your favorite sweaters, you’ll need to know how to get rid of moths in your home. These winged insects will find their way into your closet or drawers, where their larvae ...

There are two types of clothes moths – those that produce webbing and those that produce cases. Tineola bisselliella, the web-making moth, is the more common species.

Moths do not eat textile, the larvae do. The webbing clothes moth and case-making clothes moth are commonly feasting on fabrics. They enjoy natural fibers in curtains, bed sheets, upholstery, and ...

None of this has been enough to eliminate the moths. These particular moths—webbing clothes moths—are simply too well adapted to modern human life; as a species, “they don’t really live ...

Some destructive moths are the Case Making Clothes moth and the Webbing Clothes moth which can eat clothes or fabric. It is actually the larvae of these two moths, the Tinea pellionella and the ...

On average, only about five webbing clothes moths are found each month in the museum, she said. And typically in Annenberg Court, and the building’s lower levels, rather than the galleries.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Isabel Novick, Boston University (THE CONVERSATION) Every day, I come into the lab ...