I've had none so far, but one of the little sods just came fluttering out the place where I keep a fair amount of wool and cashmere sweaters etc. Has anyone had bitter experience and can suggest remedies?
Garment bags.
Short of dry cleaning, you might try freezing the garment(s) for a couple of days.
Cedar blocks as always.
Cedar blocks. I'll look into that. Thanks, Mark.
I lost a bunch of good items about ten years ago. The cloth garment bags have been the best investment. Copious amounts of cedar couldn't hurt. Best yet, how about a a whole clothes closet lined with cedar?
Moth paper seems to work quite well and is dead cheap. Odourless too. I always keep plenty folded up sheets in the jacket pockets of stored suits.
But my, they are cunning bastards. And in my experience once you've got them you will never completely eradicate them.
Thank you. That would be kind. And I'll send you GM.
If you ever go to one of those warehouses that specialize in expensive orient carpets, look behind the desks and you will see many large spray bottles of moth poison.
I wonder what kind of moths JS has... Hmmm
Fuckin' Ivy ones, Pablo, in jackets with lapped seams.
I often thought that many of the posters on Modculture found their way there, simply because they were attracted by the flickery light from the computer screen.
So I take it moths aren't Ivy?
Moths have been known to fly out of my wallet, on the rare occasions I decide to give it an airing.... (wink)
Cedar balls or blocks certainly but also, and a cheaper option, is sprigs of rosemary, assuming you`ve got access to a plant.
A bump for this one as it's the time of year when moths are active, May to October for the UK.
Clean your wardrobe out, check your wool garments, consider using anti moth products.
Moffs like dark and quiet and no movement and food/organic stuff to feed on.
Open cupboards, let light and breeze /air in and move stuff frequently.
Hang clothes out in sunshine and breeze for a few hours.
Vintage clothes people I've known dry clean everything once a year and move it around if possible..
I read somewhere that moths don't gnaw through linen, so I ebayed a couple of cheapo linen pillow covers in which I now store most of my knitwear... along with generous amounts of anti-moth satchets and the like. You never know.
Its mostly food / organic matter spilt/stained on wool etc that they munch on - get rid of that and they don't munch on wool itself - so I'm told.
Move stuff around and let light in and they wont even begin to stay.
I'd promised a friend of mine two Smedley jumpers that had become too small for me. After pulling them from the back of wardrobe I noticed that both of them had been attacked. As they were on top of each other the holes were in excaty the same place on each of them.
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Any good recommendations? There are all sorts of cedar products on Amazon - do any really work?
Jumpers - they're attracted to them as an easy target. They'll go for a jumper over a tweed jacket everytime.
I just found one on my favourite winter overcoat, which is now hanging on my clothes line, enjoying the sun. (Later I'm going to try to fit it into my freezer compartment.)