Sunday, November 27, 2011

Who wants to play "What's that bug?"

This morning I was looking at a football-shaped white spot of paint on the gray tile floor when it stuck it's head out and started inching along. A quick check of the great and powerful Google revealed it is a casebearer moth. They form a larvae made of silk that looks like a flat diamond/football and carry it around with them. They're not particularly harmful unless they get into the closet and start feasting on natural fabrics and of course the little buggers have a preference for the good stuff - silk, wool and cotton. I'm not pleased but we only saw two of them and the good news in they're not termites. One recommended method of getting rid of them is to make the house inhospitable by reducing the humidity. (Apparently in addition to their discriminating taste in fine fabrics, they love a relatively humid environment.) I keep telling these cats to make themselves useful - and here's a chance to have some fun with little inchworm creatures while simultaneously earning their keep by getting rid of them - but do they listen? That would be a big HECK NO.

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