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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Clothes Moths (Tineidae) » Tineinae » Household Casebearer Moths (Phereoeca) » Household Casebearer - Hodges#0390 (Phereoeca uterella)
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Pod found on a floor at home. - Phereoeca uterella
Copyright © 2011 Eugene Ouellette

Pod found on a floor at home. - Phereoeca uterella
Coral Springs, FL, Broward County, Florida, USA
August 23, 2011
Size: 13mm x5mm
A pod found on the floor at home. Something has been eating holes into clothes. Could this be the eater? If left undisturbed, what looks like a worm comes out of one end, then retreats back into the pod. It is repeated out of the other end. However, looking at it with a glass, it is not a worm but a millipede. It seems to be able to move about without leaving the pod completely. It is easy for me to imagine it on a fabric in our closet, coming out and munching out holes. I want to know if this millipede is guilty and, if so, how to prevent and control other such pods from eating our clothes. Thank you.

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Contributed by Eugene Ouellette on 23 August, 2011 - 3:59pm
Last updated 17 September, 2011 - 10:55pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 September, 2011 - 10:55pm login or register to post comments

bagworm
moth (you can search it to read more)
… Edna Woodward, 23 August, 2011 - 5:26pm login or register to post comments

I don't know the species,
but this is typical of clothes moths.
The larvae (caterpillars) live in these
cases until they pupate and become moths.
… stan gilliam, 23 August, 2011 - 4:23pm login or register to post comments

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