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clothes moth

DEFINITIONS OF: clothes moth

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n any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens

Types:
Tinea pellionella, casemaking clothes moth
the larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins
Tineola bisselliella, webbing clothes moth, webbing moth
moth that forms a web in which it lives
Type of:
tineid, tineid moth
small yellowish moths whose larvae feed on wool or fur
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