Identify white body, black head which pops out both ends of pinl hard tube

[londonclanger]

Originally Posted by jeremiah

Do you have a wool or wool-mix carpet? If you have, it's been eating it.

There are more of them, lots more.
Round the edges of the room, next to the wall; round the legs of your furniture, under anything that sits flat on the floor, however heavy...

Case Bearing Clothes Moth

Originally Posted by londonclanger

I DO... a wool-mix... So it's a moth...blighter. Lots more you say...that's not good news. I don't mind sharing, just be nice if they helped with the rent...

Am off to Carpet Right for a nylon carpet.

Cheers folks

Does the hard tube reflect the colour of the carpet...???

[Vincent86]

Trichoptera (Greek: trich, "hair" + ptera, "wings") is an order of insects. Member species, known as caddisflies, sedge-flies or rail flies, are small moth-like insects having two pairs of hairy membranous wings. They are closely related to Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) which have scales on their wings, and the two orders together form the superorder Amphiesmenoptera. Caddisflies have aquatic larvae and are found in a wide variety of habitats such as streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, spring seeps, and temporary waters (vernal pools). The larvae of many species make protective cases of silk decorated with gravel, sand, twigs or other debris.

[jeremiah]

It's when you hoover next to the wall and find the carpet has disappeared up the nozzle leaving the backing hessian and a faint shadow of the pattern...

I asked what to do about them in a National Trust property, as they have wool and silk carpets and tapestries; apparently there isn't much since the EU banned the insecticides, just pheromone traps and freezing if the article is small enough.