One of the top pests in London dwellings is the small but deadly clothes moth, whose larvae are at this very moment chomping happily through your or a near neighbour’s cashmere jumper. All wool garments spell ‘feast’, the banqueting parlour being your wardrobe or wherever you may leave your jumper – hanging on the back of a door, over the back of a chair – nowhere is safe!
The moths are very good at evading capture – and there are no foolproof methods of eradicating them 100%. At the moment I am trying pheromones – male moths being attracted to sticky sheets of cardboard, which mimic the smell of female moths. Quite effective … if somewhat gruesome. Reminiscent of ‘pinned’ butterflies …
I have a friend called Isobel, who is very creative and makes clothes. When she found her husband’s cardigan languishing in the cupboard full of moth holes, she turned it into what could pass muster for a ‘designer’ garment. How clever was that??!!
Boho, ‘distressed’, shabby-chic – she should patent it!
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