Subject: Casemaking clothes moth infestation
The library at the Medical University of South Carolina presently has an infestation of casemaking clothes moths. They are bunkered down under the journal stacks merrily eating old wool carpet, laying their eggs on the shelving and books, and flying around disturbing patrons. Although an exterminator sprayed repeatedly, it was only last week that we discovered their hiding places. We have consulted with the Clemson University Extension Service and would like to follow their advice of removing the old carpet and spraying after an initial mass fogging. University housekeeping holds that merely removing the carpet and spraying should be sufficient to kill the eggs, larvae and adults. Does anyone have experience with such a pest infestation? We have about 60 stack ranges infested over a large area. Is a piecemeal approach of cleaning and spraying one range a day a satisfactory method, or is a mass chemical attack by fogging advisable by the conservation community? *** Conservation DistList Instance 4:46 Distributed: Saturday, March 2, 1991 Message Id: cdl-4-46-005 ***Received on Wednesday, 27 February, 1991