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How do you get rid of moths?

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Sibbytwo · 30/01/2022 22:24

They're back.
I thought we'd got rid of them but suddenly they're back in our clothes and a favorite jumper has a big hole.
I've put things in the freezer, sprayed, used sticky moth killers...

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runningoutofnewnames · 30/01/2022 22:33

You don't, they're with you forever IMO!

Seriously, you need to go to war with them. Their tiny eggs will be everywhere. There will be fewer if them in winter (unless your house is kept very warm) so now is time to start the war.

Think about where doesn't get disturbed very often. Clothes you don't wear often? (Especially wool). Carpets that go under bits of furniture?

Put any clothes or other textiles you don't wear often in some kind of air tight plastic storage. Hoover under everything. Turn out drawers where you found then and clean them.

And put those sticky things everywhere.

We found moth eggs / larvae:

  • in the carpet, under the sofa
  • in a manky pile of dirty clothes teenage DS had left down the side of a chair in his room. The moths seemed to love dirty clothes, they were all over them
  • in "back of the cupboard" clothes we'd not worn in ages
  • in a lovely woollen bag that had been out away at the bottom of a wardrobe
rosydreams · 31/01/2022 10:02

this brings back memories of finding moths in my fathers house.I picked up his cashmere sweater only for it to disintegrate in my hands,shudders

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