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Clothes moths: Why I admire these persistent, destructive, difficult-to-eradicate and dull-looking pests

  • Written by Isabel Novick, Doctoral Candidate in Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Boston University
Clothes moths: Why I admire these persistent, destructive, difficult-to-eradicate and dull-looking pests*Tineola bisselliella* can survive on as little as a hairball and some vitamin B.Olaf Leillinger/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Every day, I come into the lab to check the moth jar. The jar, which previously housed a liter of honey, now contains a multitude of small golden moths and their wriggly caterpillar offspring.

smiling woman holds a liter-size jar with scrunched up knitting in itThe author in the lab with her...

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