MOTHS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

We had carpet moths. So severely. I left a book on the carpet for a week. When I picked it up there was a bare rectangle and millions of moth larvae. 🤢

Did eventually get rid by using tons of zero in moth and carpet beetle spray.

Your ones look different though, I think they are clothes moths, or the ones you get outdoors?

That won't do you any good, it's a pheremone trap for webbing clothes moths (the most common kind of clothes moths), which is not what you have. It won't attract anything else. Yours aren't clothes moths so don't worry. They'll reduce as it gets colder.

Do not kill them, put them outside. Do you have any idea how much the moth and butterfly population is tanking in this country.
Also, close the windows of you have lights on.

Step one is to identify the species. There are thousands of kinds of moths. The UK has 4 species that eat animal-derived textiles (wool, fur, feathers, silk - not cotton or anything synthetic) and a few that will eat human foodstuffs.

It's actually the larvae of clothes moths that eat the textiles / food - the adults lay the eggs on an appropriate food source but they don't live anywhere in particular - they spend most of their lives in the larval stage and don't live long as adults at all. They turn into adults, find a mate, lay the eggs and die.

I think it’s sad that life has become so sanitised that we cannot even seem to cope with a few moths anymore. Moths are a wonderful part of nature and many pollinate plants at night time. Enjoy them

Your picture isn't clothes moths. The pictures are of outdoor moths. They navigate by the moon (according to radio 4) I hated moths until I heard that. Now I'm in awe. Clothes moths however I wage war on. Capture your moths, don't kill them.

I get them most days, and it's not just one variety! I get tiny ones and the big ones that like to come in and flap around noisily just before bedtime 😠

I mean, come on! I have fly screens and everything. We don't have streetlights around here, I avoid using lights where I can, and they still like to invade the bathroom and a couple of rooms downstairs. I just want to come home to peace, rather than finding that I have an extra new housemate (in addition to the spiders that like to mate and multiply in the night).

I had Jersey Tiger Moths earlier this year, they're rather beautiful

We have a lot too. However the cat does a great job of chasing them and eating them.

I had those really big moths this Summer

They look like Willow or Oak Beauty's to me - woodland moths, attracted in by folks leaving lights on and windows open, something we're more likely to do at this time of year, which is also when these things are starting to fly.

Shut ya windows.

Clothes/carpet moths that do damage are tiny nothingy goldenish fluttering little bastards (ruined 100s of quids worth of silk and natural fibres i had for weaving), when you smash one you don't get goo, just a smear of greyish goldish dust, thats how titchy they are.

mine weren't dusty wave moths... also, mine have disappeared. No longer in my house. Some other bug!

Google suggests they're dusty wave moths

Those are outdoor moths OP. Don't worry, or burn your house down. They have just been attracted to your lights. Try to catch them and pop them outside. If they really bother you, hoover them up, but don't chemical everywhere, it's not great.

We had a privet moth in the other day. Look it up! Freaked me out, but it was also a thing of wonder. DH ushered it out. It was f'king enormous

We have had loads more this year. Combination of spray from Lakeland on the carpets and cedar oil seems to have got rid of them pretty quickly.

How big are they?

I may have jumped to the conclusion that they are pantry moths from your earliest posts.

Also, if you put as many of your ingredients as possible into properly airtight, transparent containers, if there are eggs or larvae in any of the ingredients you will soon find out where, because the moths will hatch into the container and be trapped there. So then you can take the affected container and get rid of that particular source. If you have a garden then chuck the contents onto a BBQ or bonfire and incinerate the little fuckers. Otherwise I'd probably fill the container with boiling water to kill them before draining and disposing of the contents in your food waste.

Clothes moths fold their wings back when they land so they look like a line on the wall, not a butterfly shape.

If they're in the kitchen then they might be pantry moths. We had an infestation a few years ago.

Pantry moths live and reproduce in food packets, particularly dry ingredients which come in paper or cardboard packaging. Bags of flour, boxes of teabags, cereal boxes, stuff like that.

Unfortunately you need to get everything out and go through it with a fine tooth comb. Almost literally, it is quite like checking your children's hair for nits. The moths are easy to spot, but what you are looking for are the larvae, which are like small, transparent maggoty things. I found them mainly in the creases of paper packets, like where the glue is on a previously sealed packet of flour. They're not that easy to spot.

We ended up basically throwing away a lot of stuff that was open, and then getting some plastic boxes with properly tight kids to keep unopened packets in.

I then went to IKEA and bought a load of big mason jars, the ones with the proper seals and the lever mechanism to open them. We now fill those with dry ingredients like flour, sugar, rice, pasta, tea bags, cereal etc and throw the packaging away.

Once you've done your inspection and got rid of any food where you find larvae, or anything that looks a bit dodgy, give the whole area a proper clean and spray it with vinegar, and only put back sealed packets and things you've decanted into proper containers.

Last year we had loads of moths in one room. Turned out they were breeding in the soil of a house plant!

Don’t have windows and doors open after dark, moths are attracted to lights (I’m sure you know this). It’s been a really good year for moths and butterflies, which is very good news.

Those are harmless. Definitely not going to munch your carpets or clothes. Put them back outside if you can.

They're not clothes moths. Can't you just catch them and put them outside?