{"id":22487,"date":"2026-06-02T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22487"},"modified":"2026-06-07T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:35:03","slug":"daily_4108_-_i_have_moths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/06\/02\/daily_4108_-_i_have_moths\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4108 – I have moths"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have clothes moths. I’ve seen one flying around on a few occasions, and I’ve discovered holes in some of my woollen clothes.<\/p>\n

Bought a moth trap. It turned out to have the most infuriating design ever.<\/p>\n

There’s a cardboard outer box with a hook for hanging it somewhere, and a glue-covered pheromone-laced inner piece, also cardboard, that’s supposed to be replaced every eight weeks. The inner piece is supposed to be attached to the outer shell using a sticky patch in the center of it. The active front of the inner card is covered with a protective piece of peel-off plastic.<\/p>\n

How the heck is this supposed to be assembled? If you put the card in the box first, so that you can press them together, then you can’t peel the plastic off. If you peel the plastic off first, then you can’t touch the front of the card any more, so you can’t press it to the box, so it just rattles around, and ends up gluing itself to the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have clothes moths. I’ve seen one flying around on a few occasions, and I’ve discovered holes in some of my woollen clothes. Bought a moth trap. It turned out to have the most infuriating design ever. There’s a cardboard outer box with a hook for hanging it somewhere, and a glue-covered pheromone-laced inner piece, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22489,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22487\/revisions\/22489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}