Wax moth eat clothes

[CleaTheChameleon]

Hey everbody does anyone know if wax moths eat clothes? One flew in my room and I can't find it can it eat clothes

 

[kinyonga]

Waxworms can definitely eat holes in clothes.

 

[Jonas]

I did not knoe the larvae could attack cloth.
However, you dont need to worry about the actual moth that escaped, just dont let loose any larvae. In my experience they tend to start covering themselves in "silk" (dont know the materiial name) as soon as they are out of their sweet wax combs.

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

I did not knoe the larvae could attack cloth.
However, you dont need to worry about the actual moth that escaped, just dont let loose any larvae. In my experience they tend to start covering themselves in "silk" (dont know the materiial name) as soon as they are out of their sweet wax combs.

Thank you

 

[kinyonga]

I was going to raise them until I found out how hard it is to keep the larvae contained. They are so small when they are hatched that they can go through the holes in screen. (They usually stay right where the food is but not always.) Since screen obviously wasn't going to work, I tried putting t-shirt material over the opening to the container...but they ate right through it and I had little worms all over the place. The only "good" thing about it is that the worms would dry out and die...it was no fun cleaning up the dead bodies that were stuck to "everything".

 

[Jonas]

I have just kept them in plastic containers with some pin holes in the lid, never had any problems with escapees.

 

[xanthoman]

the larva are capable of chewing through wood and have a fondness for wood and silk and probably cotton or any cellulose/fiberous type material and probably would damage clothes in the right enviroment , but they dry up and die quickly if not kept fairly humid, the adults (moths) do not eat

 

[CleaTheChameleon]

Thank you