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Textile Pests

Common Clothes Moths (Tineola Bisselliella)

 

 

Features

 

 

  • 6-8mm long

  • Shiny golden buff wings

  • Runs rather than flies

  • Avoids the light and will prefer undisturbed areas

  • Larvae is 10mm long, cream-white in colour with a golden-brown head.

  • Larvae feeds on wool, furs and feathers etc

 

 

Case-bearing Clothes Moths (Tinea Pellionella)

 

 

Features

 

 

  • 6mm long

  • Brown buff wings with three dark faint spots  

  • Runs rather than flies

  • Avoids the light and will prefer undisturbed areas

  • Larvae is 10mm long and lives in a portable silken case made of fibres

  • Larvae feeds on wool, furs and feathers

 

Fur Beetle (Attagenus Pellio)

 

 

Feature

 

  • 4-6mm in long

  • Dark reddish-brown to black in colour with two hairy white spots on its back

  • Adults feed on spiraea flowers

  • Larvae are 6mm long, orange-brown in colour, hairy all over with tuft long hairs coming from rear

  • Larvae feed on carpets, wool and furs etc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus Verbasci)

 

 

Feature

 

  • 3mm long

  • Oval shape with conspicuous pattern of white, black and yellow (looks similar to a small ladybird)

  • Adults feed outside on the flowers of Hogweed and Spiraea

  • Larvae (woolly bears) are 4-5mm long with lots of brown-golden hairs which can cause irritation to human skin

  • Larvae mainly feed on carpets but will also feed on other natural material

 

 

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