house moth

British

noun

either of two species of micro moth, esp the brown house moth ( Hofmannophila pseudospretella ) which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs

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The brown house moth, once the most common clothes-eating moth, would have been very familiar to Victorians.

From BBC • May 20, 2018

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