Moths Have Been Partying in Your Dark Closet. What Now?

Advice from an army of very busy exterminators.

“I’m not gentle with them anymore,” said Laura Love. “I see one and I’m like, ‘I’m coming for you.’” Ms. Love, 29, a model in Los Angeles, has waged war against the webbing clothes moths that she recently discovered during a quarantine closet clean, finding the pests running rampant in her knitwear. “I wore sweatpants and leggings for a year, and my clothes didn’t get touched,” she said. She had to throw away everything from wool ski leggings to a 50-year-old Lucien Pellat Finet cashmere cardigan. “These are some bougie moths, they loved that one.”