A clothes moth infestation spells real trouble for your closet. Before you know it, all your favorite sweaters and expensive silk shirts will have holes in them. Even your nice wool rugs are at risk.

Use natural repellents like rosemary, thyme, cedar, lavender, or peppermint oil applied to sachets or wood blocks to deter ...

Are your clothes safe this summer? When you packed away your favorite woolly sweaters and long johns last spring, you probably didn’t expect to give them a second thought till sometime in November.

New biological insecticides have emerged in recent years which make use of so-called "entomopathogenic" viruses that are harmful to insects, in particular the baculovirus. To identify the virus in ...

Sexually confusing moths has emerged as a way to force the pests out of the wardrobe. In a new pest control treatment, experts lured male moths and covered them in a “perfume” of artificial pheromones ...

(CN) – Researchers at Cornell University hope to tackle a small pest and a big problem that has plagued agriculture since the 1800s: controlling the destructive diamondback moth through genetic ...