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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've checked our wool clothes. I found two sweaters with holes last year, I threw them away, but haven't found any damaged clothes since then. The pheromone traps inside the closets don't catch anything, only the traps out in the open are catching stuff. [/quote]

What makes you think you have an infestation?  These are insects that live outside your house and may get in at the rate you're finding them.  You clean, and make sure stored items don't go undisturbed for too long, it's not a problem.  Or they're breeding in an eighty-year-old rat's nest behind your wall.[/quote]

How would I differentiate between them coning from outside vs an infestation? I've only lived in this area a few years, I've never lived in any other geographic area where clothes moths fly in from outside.[/quote]

I saw a few and thought they had just come in from outdoors. Then things got crazy and I was seeing them more often. About a year ago one was flying around with larvae dropping from it and went crazy. By far one of the nastiest things I have ever seen.  Fast forward to this year and we have seen two on warmer days. (I’m not in DC) I don’t know what to do but I am starting to get stressed all over again Op. I will be following this thread and am hoping for better solutions than traps.[/quote]

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