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.

Have you considered getting a bat? They eat moths. This seems to be the best solution.

Brilliant comment 😂

It depends what type of moth it is. Most moths don’t eat fibres of clothes.

This thread is hilarious.

But on a serious note, for anyone who does have clothes moths, get the wasps mentioned further up the thread. I mean, they send you a paper envelope and tell you that the wasps are microscopic and can't be seen with the naked eye - maybe I was just conned into buying an empty packet! But I released them last year and haven't seen a moth since.

My teddy bear however is still in the freezer.

Bastard things ate holes in him 😥

Well this is horrific

That is all 105% correct..Plus, if you don't find a serious big furry spider and yet you do see two flies inside the kitchen on any given day, then a brand new kitchen is needed..I've explained this really basic situation to my husband but he still needs to hear it from someone else. Could you please oblige ?

Le those elephants hawk head moths or similar. Not mothy in that they're daytime but mahooosive like teeny helicopters.
OP just console yourself it's not bedbugs

Tried the wasps - didn’t work! Well they worked initially but when I bought more wasps they became immune to their death stares.

They don't eat anything, mainly just wool. To prevent it wash cashmere and wool on cold hand wash, dry and vacuum pack with one of those moth pod things. I stick moth pods in wool coat pockets.

Bonus, they also work against carpet beetles. Those buggers are far hungrier than it says on the tin.

I think they only eat brains made of cotton wool.

It was, but as if the whole thing wasn't weird enough, I then found out the same thing had happened to someone else that l know. Now wondering how common this is 😱

I once had an earwig crawl in my ear. I woke Mum to tell her and she didn’t believe me. I made such a fuss that she took me into the bathroom to look. She went very quiet, and then said, ‘Get me a teaspoon Roger’ to my dad.

It was evicted after some kerfuffle, but I ended up with an ear infection from all the prodding with the teaspoon handle.

That should sort it nicely

Omg an earwig is even worse than my moth! 😱 I tried all sorts of things to get mine out, including pouring olive oil and saline into my ear (thanks but no thanks Google). Nothing, nada. The fluids did at least kill it so it stopped flapping.

I went to seek medical help the next morning after a very sleepless night. The doctor, after initial disbelief, could see it with his instruments but apparently after a serious ear infection years ago my ear canal is a bit mutated and nothing would flush it out, so I was sent away with some kind of dissolving drops to wait it out. Fortunately as I said, it dislodged a little while I was eating a corn on the cob and I managed to finally fish it out. It was very greasy from the olive oil 🤢

I often wondered why it didn't just crawl back out (i even turned off the lights and shone a torch in my ear) but the conclusion among friends and family was that moths can't reverse 😂

Rigsbyscat like donkeys, apparently. Imagine getting a donkey stuck in your ear…!

We have rats, moths and, for one deliriously disgusting fortnight, maggots falling from the kitchen ceiling. I was wondering whether to leave and let nature take over. But instead I pay for a series of middle aged men to tramp through the house at intervals, stand hand on hips to declare “they be the size of small cats now and BOLD” (possibly moths as well as rats) and lay poison. I make the mistake of following said men around the house as they shake their heads at my parlous living conditions (we also have dogs and I am trying - somewhat hypocritically - to ensure their continued survival) and, therefore, have to listen to all their dramatic tales of how their prey die. Slowly in case anyone was wondering. I wish for simply moths. You are living my dream.

Oooooohhhh, new clothes! <Rubbing hands together with glee as I plan to explain to husband what is required>

Yeah you need to burn your house down sorry

I had mice all over the house at one point (bastard cats kept bringing them in and naturally the mice set up home). Took ages to get rid of them. Rats would finish me off.

I never thought about their eggs. Whenever I get a random moth flying in at night. I let him live until the morning, I’ll be swatting them from now on.

I almost fainted when I read this. I’m terrified of parasites. I’m fairly sure moths prefer chewing clothes to brains though - don’t they?

In which case the only solutions you need are a needle and thread for your clothes and a pair of little rubbery ear plugs.

My house has ladybirds which I adore but dh read an article about billions of them “nesting” in someone’s attic and then invading the house like some kind of end-of-the-world plague of insects. Unclear what damage the invasion caused other than things being a little crunchy underfoot!

but dh is now literally terrified of ladybird invasions and the whole household has to go hunting if we even find one, and I have to clean all the windows and doors because “they can smell each other’s scent trails, and then more will come…”

I won’t even start to tell you what happened the time he found a cute little mouse in the attic …

Oh no! Please don’t. They are cute fuzzy little things and they don’t generally cause harm.

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain maggots falling from the ceiling?
Christ almighty!
I feel nauseous.

I remember a story once about a lady who got a blackberry seed stuck in a cavity and it grew into her jaw … danger is around every corner.