Cedar Creek
Natural History Area


Insects of Cedar Creek

Order LEPIDOPTERA

Family TINEIDAE

(Clothes Moths)

(Table of Species)

Most members of this family (175 NA spp) are casebearers that feed on fungi or fabrics. The most notorious members of this family are the clothes and carpet moths (Tineola bisselliella, Tinea pellionella, Trichophaga tapetzella). Members of the genus Acrolophus (burrowing webworms) construct tubular webs in the ground where they feed on the roots of grasses.


jhaar@lter.umn.edu Last updated May, 2000