clothes moths, their present infrequency

[eub]

Clothes moths seem to be far more of a concern in the past, or in literature, or both, than they are now, to me. They are no concern of mine at all, and I have done all right. I think. Why?

Do we not wear enough edible clothes nowadays? I have a notion that moths like wool. Or are our clothes all mothproofed nowadays through some genius now overlooked in ubiquity?

Maybe they've emigrated to the pantry.

Comments

[katharos.livejournal.com]

Wool clothes, yah, I've worried about moths before. Where the sneaky little bastards got me was a framed embroidered picture by my grandmother... Yep, needlepoint is/was often done in dyed wool.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Ow. Clever of them, to think beyond the closet.