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Two species of parasitoid wasps, Apanteles carpatus (Hymenoptera Braconidae) and Baryscapus tineivorus (Hymenoptera Eulophidae), are known to successfully parasitize larvae of tineid moths. We have evaluated each species potential impact on suppressing the pest Tineola bisselliella (Lepidoptera Tine...

Inside a two year old family house, clothes moth adults appeared in all rooms in 2012. Inspection of clothes did not find any moths. The moth population was heavy, with at least 10 moths caught daily. Thermal fogging inside the house with deltamethrin reduced flying moths for no more than 14 days. T...

The webbing clothes moth Tineola bisselliella is economically the most import pest on wool, fur, and feathers. The larvae cause damage in stores, museums and households. Infestation can be through import of infested material or by new infestations out of natural reservoirs. Natural reservoirs are be...

Keratophagous moths don’t have the medical or epidemiological significance, but in the urban environment they occupy specific niche as synanthropic arthropod pests. Nearly 30 species of keratophagous moths can be found out on the territory of Russian Federation. Our most common pest species is the w...

The xylophagous insects attack all kind of cellulosic materials such as wood, furniture, books, papers and clothes. There are several xylophogous insect species, but termites (Isoptera) and beetles (Coleoptera) are the most important economically. The objective of this study was to survey the specie...

In the past years test systems for the evaluation of repellents, attractants and insecticides/acaricides have been developed and further refined in our laboratory. A standardized laboratory test system for the evaluation of tick repellents (Moving-Object (MO) Bioassay) has been extensively used with...

Webbing clothes moth, Tineola bisselliella, is a world-wide pest of clothing and textiles in domestic environments and also causes serious damage to textiles and ethnographic material in museum collections. Monitoring traps are an important component of pest control programmes but sticky traps witho...

A commercial controlled atmosphere treatment of wool/silk curtains infested with textile pests was carried out as part of a National Trust conservation project. The curtains, together with small cages containing 20 late instar larvae of the textile pests Tineola bisselliella (common clothes moth), T...