21 OCTOBER 2006, Page 95

Q. Moths have attacked my wardrobe and every cashmere jumper

I own seems to have only the one hole — at navel level. Are moths malicious? If they are going to eat only one bite out of a jumper, why can’t it be in the armpit or somewhere it won’t be noticed? I have had to throw everything away.

T.B., Wiltshire A. A number of men have recently had their wardrobes decimated. The moth is not particularly malicious. It is simply that it goes for the minuscule traces of food that men tend to spill on their fronts and which are invisible to the naked eye.