Small Brown Eggs on Washing

Lizbetty

Lizbetty said:

Well they've hatched! 

Possibly moth larvae? I do think theres a strong possibility they were laid on the cloth while they were on the line. At least I'm hoping so 😄 I was waiting to see if they chewed at the flannel as I did have concerns they were laid on a food source. Will be washing the rest of the towels from the blanket box as a precaution I think! I'm tempted to take them outside as it seems mean to keep them there if they need to look for some other food, I just dont know.

There's a LOT of them! 😱 

I must admit I would love to see what they grow into though so am tempted to put them in a bigger jar. 

HampshireH

Lucky you found it when you did😳

Clean up operation would have been worse if they had escaped the box etc

Eldi_Dos

Maybe some Cedar wood rings or strips to put in blanket box and wardrobe might be good idea.

Lizbetty

HampshireH said:

Lucky you found it when you did😳

Clean up operation would have been worse if they had escaped the box etc

Oh my word, I hadn't actually thought about that you know! My eldest almost washed her face with that cloth too, imagine them hatching up her nose 😱😃 

Lizbetty

Eldi_Dos said:

Maybe some Cedar wood rings or strips to put in blanket box and wardrobe might be good idea.

Yes thank you, that sounds like a very good idea. ❤ 

twopenny

I don't know that moths lay that many eggs at once or in the same place.
Think of cabbage white, llays a cluster here or there.

But it has to be something that flies and small ie not a bat 

There are natural history forums/sites where they will identify from a photo.
I came across a white frog at night and thought it may be an escaped tropical beast. They assured me it wasn't - which was disappointing tbh.

Lizbetty

twopenny said:

I don't know that moths lay that many eggs at once or in the same place.
Think of cabbage white, llays a cluster here or there.

But it has to be something that flies and small ie not a bat 

There are natural history forums/sites where they will identify from a photo.
I came across a white frog at night and thought it may be an escaped tropical beast. They assured me it wasn't - which was disappointing tbh.

Crikey I'd love to find a white frog! Was it an albino one? 

The more I Google pics of similar eggs/hatchlings the more it does appear that they're some type of moth, the type is the only elusive thing really. Clothes moths lay between 300/600 eggs (!) but thankfully they're the wrong colour for those from what I can find.  I'd love to know what sort they are for peace of mind to be honest.

There was a small moth in my other daughter's room yesterday and it set me on red alert. Although she does have her window open/on vent so it's probably nothing to worry about. We do have a lot of insects and she likes to name them rather than chuck then back out, haha. I'll definitely be triple checking their wardrobes and getting some deterrents installed just in case 🙈 

twopenny

I'm totally with your daughter. I love having neutrally painted walls and the door to the garden open so i get  see moths.
I even painted them onto porcelain.
Tell her to go to the Amazon on a boat and hundreds land on the top deck. Each different.

Clothes moth eggs and larvae don't seem to look like yours so take a breath  
Curioser and curiouser said alice.

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I woke in the night thinking about this thread and the images ...... i think they're Silverfish.
Which i hate, and give me the ebee jeebies 😬

Apodemus

[Deleted User] said:

I woke in the night thinking about this thread and the images ...... i think they're Silverfish.
Which i hate, and give me the ebee jeebies 😬

Definitely not silverfish.  Like all primitive insects, silverfish go through a series of nymph stages, which resemble the adult form,  rather than going through the egg-larva-pupa-adult development that higher insects tend to go through.  Since these eggs have hatched into larvae, they are not silverfish or one of the "primitive" insect genera.