Murray Pest Control

About fabric pests The insects most commonly associated with damage to fabric and paper products include clothes moths, carpet beetles, silverfish and psocids Carpet beetles and clothes moth can be serious pests damaging a variety of materials, mainly of animal origin including wool in carpets, clothing and furnishing, silk, fur under-felt and sometimes food products of animal origin such as fishmeal Silverfish have a preference for starchy materials and in dwellings they cause damage to cotton, linen, books, paper wallpaper and other material incorporating starch, sizing or natural glue Psocids are usally more of a nuisance pest than cause serious or costly damage