Are your clothes safe this summer? When you packed away your favorite woolly sweaters and long johns last spring, you probably didn’t expect to give them a second thought till sometime in November.

A: Fabric pests feed on a variety of organic materials, including cotton products, wool products, animal fur, feathers, clothing, carpeting, draperies and other fabrics. Most fabric pests are either ...

Casemaking clothes moth caterpillars can digest human hair and will feed on corpses. But it’s not all bad news, scientists say. Hair bits nipped off of corpses by caterpillars of the casemaking ...