carpet/clothes moths!do they really eat our clothes?-how to ID them

Subject: carpet/clothes moths!do they really eat our clothes?-how to ID them

Date: Thu Feb 26 00:07:23 2004
Posted by denis
Grade level: grad (science) School: Newcastle university
City: Newcastle on Tyne State/Province: Northumberland Country: UK
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 1077775643.Zo

Message:


Is it an " old wives tale" ? When I found holes in my cotton clothes after 
leaving them in a cupboard,in a hot climate, i was told it was 
a) Moths  
b) Silver fish  ( which are also a mystery but i have seen the little things 
wriggling around under the newspaper in the bottom of a drawer..)

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