The jumper comes out of the box with a hole at the cuff. A sachet goes in the wardrobe because holes are treated as a smell the moths would hate. The larvae are already in the fold. The lavender sits on a shelf. The wool still feeds them.
Clothes moths eat the fibre. They do not leave because a drawer smells of a garden. I hung sachets in September when we pulled the winter pile down. By October the second cuff had a hole. I had not washed the jumpers that went back in. I had not looked in the cuff.
- The sachet is the first hang
- Larvae in the fold, clean wool, a moth that was never in the clothes
- Warm cupboards, cotton holes, a trap that stays empty
- September box
- A sachet that can sit there
- Look in the cuff before you buy another bag of flowers
The sachet is the first hang
The sachet is the object you can hang. A hole looks like a visit from the air. So the bag goes on a hook. That helps as a weak extra after wool is clean and the dark corner has been vacuumed. It hurts when last spring sweat is still in the cuff. Larvae follow that, not the empty air of the shelf.
Larvae in the fold, clean wool, a moth that was never in the clothes
Adult moths in a kitchen are often a different animal. They came from dry food. A wardrobe sachet will not touch a bag of grain. Do not treat every small wing as a wool eater.
Larvae live in the dark fold, under a collar, in a rug edge. They do not live in the sachet. Opening the wardrobe and seeing no flying moth does not mean the wool is safe. The hole is the older proof.
Wash or clean before the box. Heat or a proper clean kills what is on the garment. Lavender on a dirty jumper is a decoration on food.
Vacuum the wardrobe floor, the skirting, the dark edge under the rail. Eggs sit in dust and hair. A sachet above that dust is a smell over a nest.
Plastic bins beat an open box for the months the wool sleeps. A cardboard carton in a warm cupboard is a quiet room for larvae. The sachet in that carton does not seal it.
Cedar blocks fade the same way. They do not clean a cuff. Treat them as the same first hang.
Warm cupboards, cotton holes, a trap that stays empty
Cotton and synthetics are poor food. A hole in a cotton tee in the same box is more often wear or a beetle, not the moth that wants wool. Treating every hole as a moth is how the sachet multiplies and the cotton still frays.
Carpet beetles leave different grit. They also eat wool. A sachet will not move them either. The vacuum at the rug edge is the same missed job.
Central heat keeps the cupboard warm enough for larvae after the garden has gone cold. Closing the door on a heated landing is not winter for them. The sachet does not cool the rail.
A sticky trap on the rail catches flying adults. It does not feed on larvae in a cuff. An empty trap and a new hole can sit in the same week. Do not read the trap as a clean wardrobe.
Blankets and felted toys in the same box are the same food. The jumper was only the first thing you saw.
If you freeze a jumper, bag it first so the wool does not take water when it comes out. Unbagged frost is another way to wet a cuff and then store it.
September box
September I wanted the wardrobe to smell finished. The box of jumpers went in with two sachets. October the cuff hole was larger. I washed what could be washed, bagged the rest, vacuumed the rail. The sachets can stay. They are not the job that stopped the hole.
I still hang one bag because the drawer smells of last year. I do not hang it instead of a wash.
A sachet that can sit there
A sachet can hang when the wool went in clean, the rail is vacuumed, and you want the drawer not to smell of last year. Then flowers are a spare.
Skip another bag when the hole is already in the cuff, when the jumper went in worn, or when the kitchen moths are in the grain. That is how September dressed a nest.
A new wardrobe is not the first hole of autumn. A clean garment and a closed bin are.
Look in the cuff before you buy another bag of flowers
Take the jumper out. Look in the cuff and the fold. Clean what you will keep. Vacuum the dark edge. Then decide if the drawer even needs a smell.
The September sachets are still on the hook. The holes stopped after the wash, not after the second bag of flowers.
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