Insect Quiz November, 2005

November Quiz 2005

You are changing out your summer clothes for your winter ones, when you open a cardboard box that contains some wool sweaters.  A few small moths (1/2 inch wide wingspan) fly out.  You examine one that lands near you.  It is a golden brown with narrow, yellowish brown wings that lack any markings on it.  It also has a furry, reddish brown head.  As you pull your sweaters out and look at them, you see some of them have white worms with holes and webbing on them.

1.  What is this insect?

2. What do they eat?

3.  Where else can I find these insect in my home?

4.  What is the best control of these moths.