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https://youtube.com/watch?v=DSuMzxm3suA

Watching this video where this knitter finds a wool moth in her yarn stash.

Tbh my first reaction would be to take a baseball bat and beat the yarn basket until the bat breaks. (I don't own a cricket bat, my part of the family isn't THAT British.)

Idk why my first reaction is "SMASH TO KILL!!" or "BURN IT WITH ALL OF THE FIRE!!"

Idk how else in that moment to kill tiny winged demons that eat yarn.

(I've done the moth kill saga before though.)

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I think many folks who knit with wool fiber and most folks who work with fleeces have had the Moth Ordeal.

I mean... I have learned the power of quarantining fleeces before they come into the house. I opened up a bag of raw alpaca that was next to the fireplace years ago. Crawling with moths and larvae.

I froze for a split second and tied the bag back up.
Put it in the garage (winter). Brought it out, etc. Moths dead but I was joyous and scarred at the same time.

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It's pretty (relatively) expensive for anything cedar to ward off Wool moths.

I did an experiment. I put drops of clove oil directly into a clean fleece that was infected with Wool moths.
... the Wool moths and their larvae died. In the fleece. The infection of that bit of fleece ended.

Wool moth males smell pheromones given off by females (pheromone traps). Adults don't eat. Only the larvae do.

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