Over the last week or so we've had a mini plague of little tiny moths in the house….around 10 or 12 every day, some of which have been in the wardrobe!  (which has louvred doors so easy for them to get in).  Any ideas (preferably not involving chemical sprays or nasty smelling mothballs) for getting rid/preventing them?

At the other end of the scale, we've been watching a gorgeous and fascinating humming bird moth in the garden recently, husband has been desperately trying to get a photo but it's obviously camera-shy, flits off as soon as he gets near the window

Lavender, Rosemary and Lemon grass are all supposed to be moth repellents. (and smell much nicer than chemicals or camphor) try sticking a few drops of essential oils on cotton wool balls and sticking them in discrete places…makes the house smell nice too.

And cedar wood. You can sometimes buy small pieces of it that you can sand down to expose a fresh surface when they stop working, so they last for years and years.

There are hundreds if not thousands of species of moths in the UK, and only 6 of them eat clothes and carpets. We saw an elephant hawk moth recently. Link to ukmoths.org.uk  here. (P has a moth trap, which attracts them overnight and in the morning you spend hours identifying them and release them.)

I have scarlet tiger moths in my garden. They are really lovely, and the caterpillars are attractive. The caterpillars eat comfrey leaves, and then move on to other things, fortunately reaching strawberry leaves only after the berries have finished. I am happy to sacrifice a first cutting of comfrey to them, though this year there were far fewer than usual so they didn't do much damage.  See the ukmoths site, or here for even better pictures I found.