To think I need to burn all of my clothes?

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I found a moth in my wardrobe. Luckily, I managed to lock it in before it crawled into my ear and ate my brain and messaged my mum for help evicting it before it eats my clothes or worse... escapes.

She's just replied that we will need to look for eggs.

Moth Eggs.

Obviously, the entire wardrobe and everything in it now needs to be burned. In fact, the whole house might need cleansing with fire.

I am not being unreasonable.

I think there are things that you can try first

Honestly? I know you are being funny but if we all had to burn our clothes whenever we found a moth, everyone in north London would be naked. Or wearing athleisure.

I'm not naked, fwiw. I had some clothes in the tumble dryer that can be spared the flames for now.

If you google this one of the top tips is bagging your clothes up and putting them in the freezer for a week. That sounds a bit less expensive than burning all your clothes.

Totally reasonable. I dont have my own moth but am looking for an excuse to change my entire wardrobe. Can I borrow your moth when you have finished with it .
Burning down the entire house sounds a little excessive. This is only necessary when you have lost visual on a large furry spider .

Excellent.

They eat your carpets too. I think you need to burn the entire house down, just to be safe. I’m sure your insurance company will understand.

These work within 24 hours. Just put them amongst your clothes.

Cheaper than slash and burn.

Just change everything for polyester, they'll starve to death.

Are you saying you've managed to make it to adulthood without a moth flying into your wardrobe?

That's really odd.

Seconding this.

Have you never seen a moth before?
Hopefully it isn’t a natural fibre eating moth if you’ve locked it in your wardrobe.

As far as I am aware, I have. I'm worried now.

We have no carpets because I am allergic to them, but the home insurance people do not know this...

I love how many people think you are being serious…I found it fun. I would also HATE to find a moth in my wardrobe and would feel like I had things crawling all over me. Not at all irrational or unreasonable

Flea treatments such as Indorex which you spray on carpets if you get a flea infestation from your pets kill moths and moth eggs too

Have you established whether it is a random moth or a clothes moth?

It's either a poor traumatised moth now trapped in darkness unable to fulfill its natural instinct of flying repeatedly into a light bulb, or it's an ecstatic moth that has been shut in an exclusive all moth can eat buffet...

It's brown.

I didn't pause long enough to look closer than that because I like my brain being uneaten.

brain eating mots is all part of the natural cycle of things. their eradication is probably responsible for the increase in brain fog. YABU

brain eating MOTHS on the other hand... get rid!!

ps: sorry for the brain fog

Every April I spend a small fortune on the sticky pads to catch the male moths, hanging moth killer doobries, the tablet doobries to put in drawers, and a spray moth killer.

Over the years I have gradually brought the moth population down from terrifying to half a dozen dead ones per annum. I chose not to dwell on how the moths died with their little feet stuck to the sticky pads.

You actually need to burn the house down...sorry no other option here

I hang these in my wardrobes and use the sticky trap pads https://amzn.eu/d/00jDvHhM

The horrifying thing will be if you burn the wardrobe and all contents and find a massive spider nest behind them (although hopefully they'll also have burned)

Buy moth pherome trap from screwfix about seven pounds.hang it in the wardrbe. Plus clean the wardrbe with white vinegar abd water 50/50

There is no other option than burning the whole house down. Save yourself. Ruuuuuun.