RENO, Nev. — Clothes moths will eat more than our wardrobe. Given a chance, they’ll eat us too.
CASE CRACKER A caterpillar of the casemaking clothes moth crawls around partly surrounded by its long, lumpy case. Now entomologists have found a caterpillar case (not this one) that incorporated hair from an abandoned human body, a new kind of clue for forensics.
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