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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 think with moths, they do congregate and hatch all at once, and you know if opening a closet door or drawer, suddenly you see them.  One or two in an open room over the course of weeks, I'd believe they're coming from outside.  Carpet beetles are much worse because they really do dissipate into the woodwork and you never see them all at once.  In nature they both turn up in animal nests eating fur, feathers, insect casings, so you want to be sure there isn't any other infestation.[/quote]

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