MOTHS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

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SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHY THERE’S MOTHS INVADING MY HOUSE????

No, but seriously, is anyone else getting these little bastards flying about? There’s been so many in the house over the last week. Is it me or just moth season?!?

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.

I had those really big moths this Summer

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

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

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).

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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?