Clothes moths

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. When my father’s family sold the house my grandfather McNulty built in Columbia, the new people put a perfectly good wardrobe out on the curb. When my sister spotted it, she it borrowed a station wagon to get it, and traded it to me, since I had two closets in my whole house, for a silver serving dish. That wardrobe is designated for wool suits and coats; I try to get them cleaned every spring and store them there with moth balls in the pockets. Clothes moths are about a quarter inch long and don’t fly around lights, it’s easy to miss them, and even in relatively new houses, they can get them inside and before you know it, they’ve eaten holes in the part of your Persian rug that’s under the sofa.