The Truth About Clothes Moths
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The common “clothes moth”, “clothing moth” or to give its street name, Tineola bisselliella, doesn’t actually eat clothes. In fact, clothing moths don’t even possess the ability to eat- they don’t have a mouth. Once they become a moth, rather than waste their time eating, they simply mate, the female lays her eggs, and then they die at some point. Meaning the most damage to your clothes you could realistically expect from an adult clothing moth is a stain if you go postal on one with a newspaper.
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Thanks m8,now I hate em even more
"forced suicide by soul crushing inadequacy"
I literally laughed out loud. Yes, a true LOL.
It's like he knows me!
Ironically enough, that joke was written by a guy with the surname Smallwood... ;-)
Find one with a hair noose around it's head hanging off a jacket or something. LOL
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Litchreally bro
I have like hundreds of these in my room, and I see the larvae from time to time, usually on the floor (because my floor is carpeted) around the edges near the walls and under my drawers, and I only discovered these when I was tidying my room and there were also dozens of these things on my wooden drawers when I'd moved all the stuff out of the way! I just hoovered them up because I was afraid they were maggots but now when I researched it they are definitely clothes moth larvae, I even see them dragging themselves along inside these cases.
Bruh
@@5weating_8ulletsbruh bruh
It's been 5 years. Have they consumed you yet?
@@Ab0x Probably
No reply so I'm guessing he's eaten.
I have a pretty persistent infestation of clothes moths in my home because I'm a fiber artist and work a lot in raw wool. I have tried freezing them, burning them, boiling them in water, fumigating them in dry ice, using mothballs on them, washing the fleeces with water and cedar oil, completely dehydrating everything they could possibly eat, and even irradiating them with gamma radiation. These things do not die.
Edit: Follow up on a very old comment. I tried a couple things in the comments and I thought I exterminated them a couple times but they keep coming back. Sealing them in airtight containers in my cedar chest keeps them safe. But things outside of that are likely to be eaten. Also to those who are calling me a sadist and a murderer: I am become death. I am without remorse. War is Hell. Other similar quotes saying I don't care, I hate them, I want them dead.
What'd you use as a source of gamma radiation and how'd you protect yourself?
"and even irradiating them with gamma radiation."
Just don't make them angry. You wouldn't like them when they are angry...
This makes me scared because I work with fiber too and I have yet to see any moths but I would be so sad if they tore apart my fiber and my yarns 😭
Alexander Abrams-Flohr you've got me scared now as the doctor told me to eat lots of fibre
Firaro There are companies who irradiate things for you.
Remember, radiation is an energy wave (like light). Once the radioactive material is removed, the radiation is gone.
NASA actually irradiates the food the send to space. This removes all bacteria and viruses.
(Side note, I have actually considered irradiating my prepper food storage. Mainly, to help preserve everything longer. Sadly, very few companies in the US offer this service because of the misconceptions of how radiation works.
It's not clothes moths it's their children.
What are their children?
Clothes Moths.
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Actually they're larva not moths yet. They only become moths when they finish pupating. They literally transform into different creatures, it is quite fascinating.
clothes larvae
but wont that make them the clothes babies ?
Youre a fucking idiot
clothes larvae wearing clothes , but that would make them cannibals.
Another interesting fact about clothes moths; they are the same species as the larvae that get into stored food, AKA pantry moths. They can get into dried food like potato flakes, pasta, rice, flour, oats, etc. and make a mess of your stored food items. And they can eat through cardboard and paper to get to it, too. Bay leaves are used to prevent infestations of pantry moths because oils in bay leaves work the same as the oils in cedar wood.
Currently have one in my room. Camping outside with my broom and dustpan like a sword and shield waiting for a dragon
Now I have one less. But if there's one... there must be more!
This means war!
"Which is also typically true of humans..."...
I had a lot of indian gray moths coming in with BULK granola. Freezing stops any eggs from developing, then a pheromone glue trap for near 3 months got rid of the moths in the house.
i really enjoy when you sneak in some quality comedy here and there
Mankini😊
I remember being a kid with a house full of clothes moths unlike other people I was fascinated by these creatures and would sit hours on end watching them and observing there behavior. I still don't know why this happens but a reoccurring observation of mine is when a injury occurs the moth proceeds to lose its color perhaps it's a camouflage mechanism to give it extra protection from predators.
I notice that moths lose their scales when touches or rubbed, these are no different.
Observe them all you like but please let me know how to tell them that they are not welcome
i would like simon to narrate my life.
it would be quite a sad episode then
Cue: sad trombone
Tell Me This Yeah, he can make MOTHS interesting..
Is it really that depressing?
Me too
Yall ever find a small straight moth, then you slap it or something, then it fucking turns into sparkly dust
I always get a chuckle listening to Simon. Either he or the writers have a great sense of humour. Yes humour with a U.
"Rather not kill a moth, but force it to commit suicide through soul-crushing inadequacy!"
Man, Simon has the perfect voice for a channel like this.
"Moths don't eat clothes. Moths don't eat clothes. Moths don't eat clothes. OK their babies do. A lot. Like exclusively." Kinda splitting hairs here eh?
Only clothes moths, not the rest
@@monarchatto6095 You mean like the ones in the title of this video? The Truth About CLOTHES MOTHS
promontorium Ok
@R R the enemy has arrived. Now I need to know how to fight back!
Why cant he just tell us how to banish them to the depths of hell?
I mean, they aren't invited in so how did they get here?
Its not like I invited them over for a dinner party...
I hate these little bastards, they seem to know when you're looking at them and then they vanish behind something, I'm constantly crushing them with a hand clap when I get the chance. Why because Moths left our cat bald.
WHAAAT?
I can assure you moths didn't make your cat bald. If your cat lost all his hair, something more serious and absolutely unrelated with moths happened to him.
I literally found one in my house and now there is three
Help my moth is climbing on my phone while I was watching you😂
Simon, this is the funniest episode of TIFO yet. Nice work!
A random question for anyone: what is the point of having colored irises? The job of an iris is to manipulate pupil size in order to control how much light enters the eye. What determines the color is genetic and depends on how much melanin a person has. But why even have melanin in the eye? What is the evolutionary benefit? Does it benefit our sight or protect our eyes from the sun in anyway? And it's not just in humans, obviously, many other animals have colored irises as well. Just a random thought I had today, but if anyone can shed some light on this, that'd be awesome!
If I absolutely had to guess... I'd say probably has something to do with attraction and sex more than any survivable trait or effect. Since most colors of iris don't really seem to affect much of anything else, and nature just doesn't tend to waste much of anything, that's about the only explanation left to fit.
There might be some correlations to be spoken of between eye-color and other aspects, health, alcohol tolerance, etc..., BUT I'd point out the most common denominator about eyes in human society is the great length (ad nauseum) of poets and romanticists narrating about "staring into a lover's eyes". It's known around the world, and in practically every language.
Can't exactly say for other animals, but attraction probably has some to do with it there as well. probably... :o)
Lizzeeyful it's a mutation. It happened purely by accident. Same reason why we have different colored hair.
I understand it's a mutation, but even hair color (or fur color in animals) seems to have an evolutionary reason, usually for camouflage into the environment or for mating purposes. Our hair color seems to correlate with the evolution of our ancestors and where they're from (skin color as an adaption to the amount of sun a group of people get depending on where they are located on the earth...closer to the equator, the darker the skin, further away the lighter the skin. Light skin produces less melanin, therefore, more chances for lighter colored hair.) It's just odd that so many animals have color in their eyes, but it serves no reason? Nature doesn't like to waste anything, if it has no use, it should eventually fade away....in humans, in dogs, in horses. And I don't really think it's a sexual attraction element because how many other animals look deeply into their lover's eyes as they "mate"....seems to me that is more of a human mating thing.
yes it does, because if a person lacks melanin in the eye it can mean the light passes through their eye easier making them sensitive to light and harder to see, just look up albinism, because albinos lack pigment including the eye it gives them eye problems and some are blind because of the lack of pigment, I have a friend who's albino and he told me this, I'm not very good at explaining things though.
Damn I want an episode on this. Hope Simon sees this post of yours ☺
Thumbs up for celsius and Fahrenheit. Thank you.
I had a moth on my screen, so I figured it needed to watch this
TheBlackSheep same I’m scared as Fuck under my blanket
Finally; a moth ally.
It's so much better when there's a touch of humour.
...Dat last line....
*Earns a thumbs-up.
"...soul crushing inadequacy." Too funny!
Oh no, not my favorite mankini! :') Love your sense of humor
As a natural fabric addict, I loved this video. It means I have less to worry about in my sewing stash and more for the wool long handled underwear of my grandfather!
But how to we fight this wretched enemy?
They will wreck havoc on my woolens!
Soul crushing inadequacy. This was so unique I had to listen to that part two or three times. Who wrote that bit?
Ironically enough written by a guy with the surname Smallwood... ;-)
did you just copy and paste that reply from the other comment? >.>
Today I Found Out 😂
Thank you.
That nonchalant joke about kids being the reason for Destruction was beautiful. Thank you
Thanks for the Celsius degrees!
It's very appreciated
Moths are precious babies and I love them.
finally someone who says both c and f
I'm a clean and hygienic person but over the last year I have noticed small circular or even almost heart-shaped small holes in some cotton leggings and also tonight in my fairly new Harry Potter pyjamas (purchased from a well-known superstore).. This also happened to a fluffy jumper which had not come into any harm and was also only worn about three times before a hole appeared even though it had been laundered so gently. I had always imagined it was a 'general' moth and had never seen one in the master bedroom - I had never heard of this type of moth at all. Thanks for the information and Merry Christmas :)
I died laughing at the line about the pheromone trap making male moths commit suicide out of feeling inadequate.
Similar to Sprunt. It doesn't kill a cockroach...it mearly fills the cockroach with self doubt as to whether or not it's in the right house.
This video was amazing, I love the blunt use of murder etc XD
We used to have a cedar trunk, but it left a pretty strong odor on our clothes, and in our room, however the mothballs were much, much worse.
I hate them so much. Lavender does nothing. Cedar balls do nothing. The pheromone packets do nothing. I've simply taken to spraying them with raid and sucking them up with the vacuum cleaner.
Their larvae make my house feel so unclean, the way they stick their heads out of their little paper cocoons and wiggle... disgusting.
That was a GREAT presentations!!!
This video was surprisingly funny. Loved the humour! Cheers!
Soul-crushing inadequacy...typically true for humans, as well...I lol'ed. Well played, Whistler. Well, played.
Might just call the more sophisticated method, the Internet method, where the moths die of soul crushing inadequacies.
I had this tin of feathers from like all my old pet birds and I found out they've all been eaten by Clothes moths :'( I don't even know how they managed to get into there. :'(
I had the exact same thing when I was a child! A collection of budgie and wild bird feathers of different colours. And when I opened the tin they were all in bits and fucking moth larvae!
I do not know how I ended up here, but you are funny! Loved learning about moths today. XX. Marion
That was fun as well as informative! Who would have thought that learning about those lil stinkers who chew up fabric would include chuckles?? 😁😁❤️👍🎄🎄🎄
"Murder Moth Babies" Funniest line ever!!
One hit me in the face while I was trying to go to sleep tonight. So I relentlessly murdered every single one I could find in the next 45 minutes. I have declared this house a moth free zone now. All moths will be killed on sight until this rage fades.
A video in under 4 minutes? What is this? The vlogbrothers? I will savor our moment together this Saturday.
I have moths that seem to only eat my acrylic curtains. They've made the curtains noticeably more transparent.
soul crushing inadequacy lol! xD
Dry cleaning will kill any infestation in your garments as it always reaches the critical killing temperature during the dry cycle. At least for perc machines. I can't speak to the others. Your dry cleaner will always recommend cleaning your garments prior to storing them for a season in order to avoid insect damage.
Yes, I work at a dry cleaner. The NCA or the IFI (can't recall which... both?) provided information about insect damage that has proven true to my work experience and customer interactions.
A life of soul-crushing inadequacy, I do not need any commercial products for that.
This video was so full of snide sarcasm, I love it.
I love the hints of like sarcasm in these videos like you speak very technically and sometimes use big word but then you say really funny things with jt making it more entertaining (though I would like the channel either way)
Soul crushing inadequacy😂😂😂😂😂😂
Why do dead batteries work after turning them in the back of the remote?
What about naphthalene? Does the stuff work?
I subscribed immediately after "Murder moth babies".
found a larvae on a bath towel. do I need to get moth repellents now? does the larvae harm humans?
This is one if the funnier TIFO scripts ever written lol
We have a lot of moths yet our clothes never have holes?
Simon looks like off brand British vsauce
You are awesome!! I really enjoyed watching this!!
Simon is a total savage in this video
"Hey Vsauce Michael here"
thats a butterfly.. 0:30
oh simon whistler, what a classic
Thanks. I legit thought someone was cutting/burning holes in my shiet
"murder moth babies" Simon Whistler, 2017
Ive research and im over them It happened to me 4 yrs ago and now again Im not afraid of moths its the larvae.I always thought it was the moth as a child Iknow now its the larvae And Orkin doesnt even treat them u need a specialist.And same with carpet beatles
I can literally see moths eating this guys clothes wtf?!?!??!
What 's with the band aid on your arm?
He was fighting some terrorists on his way to the doctor.
RogueBot he has AIDS
Casual heroin user
RogueBot He got itchy but forgot to trim his nails and outright tore the skin off.
Simon Harris between the toes and nobody knows
I typically feed mine to my betta fish
Why didn't you talk about moth balls? And how those work?
Naphthalene or synthetic naphthalene is what's in mothballs. It is produced by termites to ward off enemy insects. To be effective in your closet it would probably give you naphthalene poisoning. Right Simon?
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I love them
Do they also get into rice and flour?
Oil from a tree kills caterpillars?
And here I thought you bugs resisted grass, har har.
2:40 got me cracking up.
So moths do eat clothing, but only at the larval stage. Larva a moths.
That was so scarry
Frank Costanza's cabana shirts.
Harry the moth would approve of this video.
I searched this because I found a moth in my room and I was freaking out and I woke up my dad and he just didn’t care and I have hundreds of stuff toys in my room
I was watching a lil BBC tonight on youtube and I got to wondering about the money. I know a pound. But how much is a *quid* or a *pence* and how about shilling? How does all this compare to the dollar? I know I can look on google but it is so much fun listening to you all explain stuff.
We don't have this problem in Hawaii.
Thank you my good sir, my quest to find out how to murder moth babies has finally come to an end.
So that's why every time I down my underwear to pee, a moth comes flying out of it.
Great. But how much do they eat?
Those moth babies are always eating my mankinis - I really should wash them.
Quote soul-crushing inadequacy unquote.
A-arent blankets made of......fabric and cotton to L-lay b-BABYS?!
So if we make a larva farm in a, lets say "landfill". It'll slowly eat the waste over time?
I've been thinking of this theory since a kid.
I love moths
Soul Crushing Inadequacy FTW
Man clearly has moths in his closet, snakes too, I bet. Hasn't looked in his closet in years.
🤣🤣thanks
It's the children!