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"Roy Millar" wrote in message
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Don't know what I could have done to encourage them, but I'm suffering
a plague of small (clothes?) moths.

Anyone know of reasonably safe ways of eliminating them?

There are loads of moths around at present but I doubt they are clothes
moths.
I don't think they do very well on modern artificial fabrics.

Funnily enough in the past fortnight we too have a plague of moths in
the house which look exactly like clothes moths; something I've hardly
seen for years even though most of our clothes and domestic fabrics are
natural fibres. I've been squashing them.

Janet (Isle of Arran)

Clothes moths officially died out according to a website I came across.
Forget the year and the website, but trust me all moths around today are
friends.

This isn't true. Don't believe everything you read on the net.
These moths have a natural habitat where ever furm wool or similar
substanes can occur in sufficient quantities.The moths are very small.
A typical wild location would be a birds nest. However there are a lot
of small moths, most are harmless.

--
Neil Jones- http://www.butterflyguy.com/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn
Bog National Nature Reserve