All aboard my train, but depart at different stations
So the part of today where I discovered clothes moths in my beloved winter scarf right before I was supposed to leave the house to catch a bus was garbage and the part where I had to frantically bag and/or trash items of clothing and then rummage paranoiacally through other shelves and drawers instead of catching my bus was also garbage, but the part where I was only ten minutes late to William Wellman's Other Men's Women (1931) felt like a significant victory even if I couldn't sit with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rushthatspeaks because the ticket-taker planted me at the very outer edge of the row so as not to disturb any other patrons and the movie itself was extremely enjoyable (early James Cagney, early Joan Blondell, Mary Astor being cute, Grant Withers being cute, pre-Code knows that a husband who is first pathologically jealous and then suicidally self-sacrificial is behaving like an idiot both times and that the other two points of the triangle are going to need some recovery time before romance is back on the table, totally diegetic music, lots of well-photographed trains) and the part where we went for dinner afterward at Cilantro was great, although I might just being saying that because of the endorphin high of the cumin lamb. We walked home by way of Gracie's. I got to give Fox their new sweatshirt in person. (It has a fox on it.) I think that brings the day out to a cautious positive, but I am still going to feel twitchy until I have done a lot more laundry.
rushthatspeaks because the ticket-taker planted me at the very outer edge of the row so as not to disturb any other patrons and the movie itself was extremely enjoyable (early James Cagney, early Joan Blondell, Mary Astor being cute, Grant Withers being cute, pre-Code knows that a husband who is first pathologically jealous and then suicidally self-sacrificial is behaving like an idiot both times and that the other two points of the triangle are going to need some recovery time before romance is back on the table, totally diegetic music, lots of well-photographed trains) and the part where we went for dinner afterward at Cilantro was great, although I might just being saying that because of the endorphin high of the cumin lamb. We walked home by way of Gracie's. I got to give Fox their new sweatshirt in person. (It has a fox on it.) I think that brings the day out to a cautious positive, but I am still going to feel twitchy until I have done a lot more laundry.
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I have never had clothes moths before. I would love to accept your cedar closet and also possibly live inside it from now on.
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Ew and also ICK and many sympathies. We spent a couple weeks this fall dealing with grain moths in the kitchen.
I've taken to buying the (comparatively cheap) cedar balls that you can get by the bagfull and scatter in whatever closet or container holds your gear.
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I am trying to take cautious hope from the fact that we do not own many items of wool clothing, but first I have to survive what appears to be an unending cycle of laundry and loss.
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I hope they never come near your hexarcoat. I cannot recommend this experience.
If you want me to kick Kujen in the hopes that it will sympathetically magically help, I am happy to do so.
He probably has it coming anyway, so please.
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Thank you. I think that is going to be a lot of tomorrow.
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Looking forward to meeting Fox's sweatshirt.
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A black cashmere sweater was thrown out that nobody was wearing because it was more or less disintegrating in a welter of larvae, which was skin-crawlingly gross. Everything else so far will require cleaning, but should otherwise survive. It appears to be localized spots rather than a generalized infection, knock wood, thank God.
Looking forward to meeting Fox's sweatshirt.
It has a little blue fox with a silvery crown; it looked like an illustration from a book of folktales, maybe something like Cat Ivanovitch. The important thing is that it is fleecy and looks like I bought the right size!
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I recommend it if you get the chance! Just a solid pre-Code movie with the kind of plot that three years later, pffffft.
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Thank you. Today has been mostly de-mothing; I wish it had involved movies and spicy food.
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Thank you. I have never before had to deal with clothes moths. I am not enjoying this experience.
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A word of warning: laundering in a way that wont shrink wool items will not kill moth eggs. Also moths wont feed on synthetic fibers but its probably a good idea to launder all the synthetics in one go anyway in case they are harboring eggs or larvae.
There are a couple ways to get em:
Heat cycles. Get everything cold to put eggs in stasis by freezing for 24 hours. Warm them up for a few days to convince them to hatch. Heat them to kill the larva (dryer cycle on the hottest setting. I did mine twice out of an abundance of paranoia. )
Carbon dioxide. Store them in a airproof container that you have filled with dry ice. Let the dry ice fully sublimate then seal (both to drive out any oxygen and to make sure the tub doesn't explode if you used to much dry ice). Leave undisturbed for at least a month (the maximum incubation time for eggs).
Also wool moths will feed on animal fur so staying on top of vacuuming up after Hestia and Autolycus (especially in close dark spaces like closets and under furniture) will help with preventing a reoccurence.
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https://www.redhandledscissors.com/2014/11/clothes-moths-save-yarn-stash-fabric-wardrobe-sanity-infestation/
If you want help with de-mothing I'm free this weekend
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Thank you for all of the information. I think we are actually going to spend as much of today as possible de-mothing, because this appears to have started very recently and I would like to arrest it at once. The good news is that we can wash almost everything at home because I'm allergic to wool, so we own almost no items made with it.
Also wool moths will feed on animal fur so staying on top of vacuuming up after Hestia and Autolycus (especially in close dark spaces like closets and under furniture) will help with preventing a reoccurence.
We vacuum a lot anyway because I am also allergic to dust, but I didn't know that wool moths eat fur more generally, so this is still useful.
*hugs*
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Wool would have been enough!
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We are cleaning everything.