I mean seriously no cotton, no leather, just wool .. and why does moth balls and cedar keep them away?
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Moths don’t eat wool, moth worms do. They eat the proteins in the fabric, like a caterpillar would a leaf. The worms eat the keratin found in feathers, wool and felt side of the leather. Cotton is a plant product and doesn’t have keratin. And they can eat leather but leather is treated with a lot of chemicals to cure making it harder to eat. People don’t usually notice the moth worms but they do see the moths fly out after metamorphosis so they assume it’s the moths.
Most moths actually eat nectar from flowers.
Moth balls work cause they just solid version of an insecticide. As it slowly evaporates it release an gas that kills the moth worms.
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