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.

Big and dark brown doesn't sound like a clothes moth. They are pretty small and light cream coloured (in my unfortunately extensive experience).

Yeah I’m thankful I don’t have that!

Clothes moths are apparently on increase due to rising heat temperatures here. Get rid of any wool carpets. I don’t know what else to suggest. They’re sneaky critters.

I would genuinely rather the cat bring in mice or rats than moths.

My first experience of a moth was in a caravan, when I was around 4 years old, and my aunt, who was around 10 at the time, woke me screaming, jumped from the top bunk, grabbed my hand, and told me to run before it got me. She then dragged me outside, where we both stood sobbing and screaming until my grandad rescued us. I didn't know why we were sobbing and screaming; I only knew something was going to get us.

I eventually learned a moth landed on her sleeping bag. When I asked her what a moth was, she told me they were evil butterflies that got in your ears and ate your brains. I'm sure my grandparents corrected her, but clearly my aunt's description of moths was more convincing, as I don't remember anyone correcting her.

It was my mum who told her baby sister that moths are evil, brain-eating butterflies, so maybe they didn't correct her, maybe they saw passing the fear that she incited onto her own child as karma. I do remember genuinely believing it for years.

Obviously, as an adult, I understand this is unlikely to be true, but whenever I talk about my fear, someone always tells me about the time a moth got stuck in their/their friends ear.

Nope. Nope, nope, nope.

Mice and rats cannot fit in your ear.

Yesterday's moth was humanely caught in a plastic cup and released back into the wild by a brave volunteer (my mum), but if I see any more of them in my bedroom, then burning the house down is a perfectly reasonable response, imho.

Can definitely confirm this . In fact, unless the flies are wearing name badges you are allowed to count the same fly twice as long as it is seen 4 hours apart .

I have never seen moths in my wardrobe, I did have eggs in my kitchen a few years ago. They were laying them at the corner/edge where the wall and ceiling meet. And unfortunately, on some beautiful chopping boards I had.

It took 2 months before the eggs stopped being laid. I never saw or caught the moths doing the laying though.

So yeah I’d say burn the house.

Wasn’t the Great Fire of London just a local moth extermination that got a little out of hand? 🤔😉

🤣. I’ve heard about those moth bombs, never dared to try them.

@Quicknamechangex2x2 thanks very much for your clarification of these rules. What I might sneakily do is somehow collect a bunch,.say five, live flies, get out my tweezers, and attach little name tags around each of the buggers' necks..Then release them in the kitchen, splat them, take to show husband and there you have it ! Just get onto the Wren website and get ordering a beautiful kitchen and one of them fancy island things. Sounds like a plan, I'm sure you'd agree 😁

I've just got over an infestation of clothing moths. Regular vaccuming and wash any affected clothes in the hottest cycle they can take.