Tineola bisselliella
Webbing Clothes Moth at Flynn, ACT
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| Tineola bisselliella | GlennCocking | 17 Feb 2020 | |
| Tineola bisselliella | GlennCocking | 17 Feb 2020 | |
| Edosa ochracea | donhe | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| Edosa ochracea | ibaird | 20 Dec 2019 | |
| Unverified | Christine | 20 Dec 2019 |
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Small moths, seem to be everywhere in and around the house this summer.
6 comments
25 Oct 2022
Adding this comment for information. These moths invaded the wool carpet in every room in my house. The information says if wool carpet has been wet, but I do not think it is restricted to this, from my experience. I have had to pull up all of the carpet in my house. From speaking to a number of other people, everyone of them who has wool carpet has had the same experience, and has had to remove all of their carpet. Others who did not have wool carpet have usually reported damaged woollen clothing. So far this spring I have not seen any of these moths, as not much wool anything left in my house. I wonder if they are still around elsewhere. I think we had forgotten the habits of our parents and grandparents to use mothballs and other deterrents, and the past few years has seen a "plague" of these destructive moths.
25 Oct 2022
I certainly have destructive moths in old stored woollen pullovers, jumpers etc. unknown soecies. But no known problems in my carpet yet.
26 Oct 2022
The holes in our wool clothing seems to be caused by larvae of the beetle Anthrenus verbasci.
26 Oct 2022
Cath, that is very interesting, I wonder if my friends with holes in their wool jumpers (and Ian) have the beetle rather than the moth. Certainly the people whose carpets have been eaten have seen the moths, and now Ian is the first person I know of (granted that is not a huge number) who has wool carpet which has not been affected by the moths.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.041257-35.209713
- Places Flynn, ACT
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 19 Dec 2019 09:13 PM Recorded on
- Christine Recorded by
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
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- Christine Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Tineola bisselliella Other moths Moths (Lepidoptera) Insects
Species information
- Tineola bisselliella Scientific name
- Webbing Clothes Moth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 703m Recorded at altitude
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