It's hard to describe my problem because it's kind of mysterious, but I hope with my description, I would be able to find some advice and answers here.

I have a open wardrobe, which means well, it's open, bought it from IKEA, so I hang my clothes on a hanger and just leave it there, and over the months I've noticed some kind of very small tiny yellow dots on my clothing, apparently it'll appear on some clothing not all, and on very small part of the clothing.

It's made up of a few yellow small dots, and when you wipe it off with hands and/or a damp cloth, it'll turn into stains, but it can be wipe out very easily without much effort. So, I'm wondering what could this be ? Please refer to picture below

Insect eggs.

Clothes Moth lays egg on clothes. The adults do not feed, but they lay their eggs on clothing or other fabric to provide food for the hatching larvae. The larvae may create holes in clothing or simply feed along the cloth's surface.

Is there a way to prevent it from laying eggs or happening again ?

Moth eggs. If you have clothes that has wool content, its going to be the ones to have holes first.

Strange, I don't have any clothes that have wool content, it's all either polyester or cotton, my hanger is the wood type hanger from IKEA. I don't see how moth eggs would appear, any way to prevent it tho ?

Moth ball

You hang your clothes in the open right? If its inside a wardrobe, there is less likely would get moth attacks. The old way is to use mothballs. But that is only effective in enclosed storage like wardrobes/ cabinets.

There are several insect that live in closets. Just google for it.

Insect does not know wool polyester whatever

Yup, i did some googling, and found out that alternative for mothballs would be putting lavender sachet, as the lavender scent would keep them away, would this work for open wardrobe ?

Yes and no. If you room is fairly sealed, can use the lavender method. But if its open air from open windows and such, no way to go about it but store inside wardrobe.

Wahh jialat like that. My windows is closed 24/7 though, only my door is open in the day time, my mum suggested that I use something else, similar to the lavender sachet, let's see if that'll works. if not have to figure out a way to add a "door" for my open wardrobe.

Btw bro, how can i be sure 100% that this is indeed moth eggs or anything related to moth insects ? Because I was googling and the first sign is damaged clothes, having a hole etc, but none of my mine have any signs of those.

It is moth eggs. Moth are strange animals. It will lay eggs on any surface. Not necessarily cloths. But it will mainly be on cloths first. Sometimes the moth may not be mature enough to survive for some reason or another.

Ever seen this before? Its moth larvae. If you seen it in your house, then there is moth in your house. Like it or not.



This post has been edited by netmatrix: Aug 18 2020, 06:13 PM

I see, ok then will proceed to get lavender sachets and see if it'll works. If I do get lavender sachets, would my clothing all smell like lavender as well ?

Any idea how many sachets would u say in general for it to be effective ? To ur question, I don't think i've seen such thing before in my room, or house, but I do see some kind of err..like those cocoons ? Very small size sticking on the walls.

This post has been edited by Sotsotzaii: Aug 18 2020, 06:19 PM

Cedar wood blocks are also what some people use. Again it probably works best in an enclosed space like a wardrobe

This post has been edited by knives.: Aug 19 2020, 01:11 AM

I'm thinking of DIY a "door" for my open wardrobe, but have no ideas how to go about it

Yes the cocoons that stick to walls is the moth larvae in that picture. If you have seen it, that means there is moth in your room.

Yep! But the thing is I can't stand the smell.
Smells like my grandmas wardrobe. Lol!

Good smell will attract more moth

confirm spider eggs