your shirt, your coat, your smart frock? All were ruined? And now it's happening again.

你的襯衫，你的大衣，你的漂亮衣服？都被毀了？現在它又發生了。

The spring's over, and the season's here. The big sport begins: the moths are back and

春天結束了，季節到了。盛大的運動開始了：飛蛾回來了，而且

here they come, bunched up, neck and neck, wingtip to wingtip, every one a moth and every

它們來了，成群結隊，齊頭並進，翼尖對翼尖，每一隻都是飛蛾，每一隻都是。

moth with an evil design...

飛蛾撲火

Hello! My name is David Pinniger, and I'm an entomologist, which means I study insects.

你好！ 我叫大衛-平尼格，我是昆蟲學家，也就是說我研究昆蟲。我叫大衛-平尼格，我是昆蟲學家，也就是說，我研究昆蟲。

And my job is to help people with pests in

而我的工作是幫助人們解決害蟲問題，在

historic houses and museums.

歷史悠久的房屋和博物館；

And I'm Dee Lauder, and I'm English Heritage's Collections Pest Control Manager.

我是Dee Lauder，我是英國遺產的收藏害蟲控制經理。

And we're here today to help you learn how to deal with clothes moths.

而我們今天就來幫助大家學習如何對付衣服蛀蟲。

Clothes moths are small and silvery-gold,

衣蛾體型小，呈銀金色。

and you'll see them flying around the house. And they don't do any damage at all - but

你會看到它們在屋子裡飛來飛去。它們根本不會造成任何傷害 - 但是

they lay eggs which hatch into tiny grubs, or larvae, and they are the things that cause

它們產下的卵會孵化成小蟲子，或幼蟲，它們是造成

the damage.

的損害。

Clothes moth larvae will eat a lot of different

衣蛾幼蟲會吃很多不同的東西。

fabrics, but only those which have materials of animal origin. So we're talking about wool,

織物，但只有那些有動物來源的材料。所以我們說的是羊毛。

fur, feathers and silk. The larvae have jaws at the front which work sideways like bolt

毛皮、羽毛和絲綢。幼蟲的前部有顎，像螺栓一樣側向工作。

cutters, and they'll cut through fibres of carpet or your best woollen jumper.

剪刀，它們可以剪斷地毯的纖維或你最好的羊毛衫。

Clothes moth larvae will eat clean clothes, but they much prefer it when they're stained and dirty.

衣蛾幼蟲會吃乾淨的衣服，但它們更喜歡吃有汙漬和髒的衣服。

They will also eat other materials which are stained such as this dining room carpet, where

他們也會吃其他材料，這些材料是染色的，如這個餐廳的地毯，其中

food has been spilled on the carpet, and the larvae have completely eaten away all of the

食物已經灑在地毯上，幼蟲已經完全吃掉了所有的

fabric in that area.

該地區的織物。

You need to look for signs of the larvae, like in this carpet, where the larvae have

你需要尋找幼蟲的蹤跡，就像這塊地毯上的幼蟲，幼蟲已經

been walking across and spinning silk, which

走過和紡絲，這

they leave behind. They also leave behind small gritty pellets known as frass, which

它們留下了。它們也會留下被稱為 "frass "的小沙粒，這些小沙粒被稱為 "frass"。

is insect poo!

是昆蟲糞便！

Clothes moth larvae can wreak real havoc onto

衣蛾的幼蟲會給我們帶來真正的災難。

items, so for example this piece of fur here, this has been stored away for quite a considerable

比如說這塊毛皮，它已經存放了相當長的時間了

amount of time. At English Heritage we would regularly check items like this to ensure

的時間量。在英國文物局，我們會定期檢查這樣的項目，以確保

that this kind of damage does not happen.

這種損害不會發生。

The other thing that we've always done is

我們一直在做的另一件事是

to use very, very good house cleaning methods. Instead of just running a vacuum across the

要使用非常非常好的家庭清潔方法。而不是隻用真空吸塵器掃過

floor we actually go a little bit deeper with our cleaning. So this will involve moving

地板，我們實際上會更深一點的進行清潔。所以這將涉及到移動

heavy items of furniture sitting on top of carpets and cleaning underneath them regularly,

重的傢俱放在地毯上面，定期清理地毯下面。

especially during the spring and summer months.

特別是在春夏兩季。

You can basically carry out the same sort of measures that we're carrying out at English

你基本上可以進行與我們在英語所進行的同類措施。

Heritage. You could also carry out your own treatment at home - so for example, if you

遺產。您也可以在家中進行自己的治療--例如，如果您

find that a favourite jumper of yours has got clothes moth larvae in it, just simply

發現你最喜歡的跳線上有衣服蛾的幼蟲，只要簡單的

bag it up, place it in your freezer for two weeks at -18C and that should kill off all

把它裝起來，放在零下18度的冷凍室裡兩個星期，就可以把所有的東西都殺死了。

the moth larvae.

蛾的幼蟲。

There's no such thing as a silver bullet for

有沒有這樣的事情，作為一個銀子彈，對

clothes moths - we've been battling them for centuries.

衣服上的蛾子--我們已經和它們鬥爭了幾個世紀了。

Yes, in fact during the 16th century, Elizabeth I employed eight men to beat her furs for

是的，事實上在16世紀的時候，伊麗莎白一世僱傭了8個男人為她打毛皮。

the duration of a whole day! So good luck beating those clothes moths in your homes!

整整一天的時間!所以，祝你在家中打敗那些衣蛾子!

You can still win! Get busy at once. Leave not a moth, not an egg in a basket-full. Beat

你還能贏!馬上忙起來。不留一隻飛蛾，不留一個雞蛋，滿滿一籃子。打

the field, and keep your shirt for next season!

場，併為下賽季保留你的球衣!