Last week I reached into my jacket pockets to take out my gloves for I guess the first time this year, and pulled out one glove and a handful of dust. Apparently the one-or-two-a-week bugs I've been seeing weren't fruit flies.
The gloves were a gift from my ex, I think for our last xmas. They were handmade, and quite pretty: forest green wool yarn, with some interesting cabling. But they didn't keep my hands very warm, they didn't stay on as well as I would have liked, and the conductive thread woven into the fingertips didn't work. Looked good, but not terribly functional. I tossed them with no regrets.
My nice wool coat has some tightly-rolled cobwebs on the closet-side as well. No signs of damage, though. And I'm not seeing moth-sign on anything else, not that I have many other things they might go for (a down jacket with a polyester shell, a nice wool scarf from my aunt that I can't wear because I can't bear things around my neck). Guess I'm hunting up a dry-cleaner today. I've already vacuumed the closet well. I'll keep an eye on things and if there's a recurrence I'll take more drastic steps.
The gloves were a gift from my ex, I think for our last xmas. They were handmade, and quite pretty: forest green wool yarn, with some interesting cabling. But they didn't keep my hands very warm, they didn't stay on as well as I would have liked, and the conductive thread woven into the fingertips didn't work. Looked good, but not terribly functional. I tossed them with no regrets.
My nice wool coat has some tightly-rolled cobwebs on the closet-side as well. No signs of damage, though. And I'm not seeing moth-sign on anything else, not that I have many other things they might go for (a down jacket with a polyester shell, a nice wool scarf from my aunt that I can't wear because I can't bear things around my neck). Guess I'm hunting up a dry-cleaner today. I've already vacuumed the closet well. I'll keep an eye on things and if there's a recurrence I'll take more drastic steps.