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Tineola bisselliella adult on an infested garmentTwo bisselliella adults
Clothes moth or clothing moth is the common name for several species of moth considered to be pests, whose larvae eat animal fibres (hairs), including clothing and other fabrics.
These include:
Tineola bisselliella, the common clothes moth or webbing clothes moth
Trichophaga tapetzella, the carpet moth or tapestry moth
Monopis crocicapitella, pale-backed clothes moth.[1] Particularly destructive of textiles, and found to have increased dramatically in south-west England in 2018.[2]
Niditinea fuscella, the brown-dotted clothes moth
^"Monopis crocicapitella (Pale-backed Clothes Moth) - Norfolk Micro Moths - The micro moths of Norfolk". Norfolk Moths. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
^Maev Kennedy (22 April 2018). "How to avoid clothes moths: live in the east Midlands". The Observer. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
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