eli5 Why do moths eat wool clothing?

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I mean seriously no cotton, no leather, just wool .. and why does moth balls and cedar keep them away?

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Wool is made from keratin, which is made of proteins. its a full meal if you have the enzymes to digest it. leather is bound together and highly processed while cotton is just cellulose which is very hard to digest.

Most plants are poisonous especially to bugs so the scent of them keeps the bugs away. Moth balls slowly sublimate so they fill closed spaces with poison that kills bugs but its too weak to harm larger things

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