Historic mansion fights moths with tiny wasps

[Still Waters]

The historic Blickling Hall in Norfolk, England, is employing a crack team of microscopic wasps to defeat a moth infestation.

As pandemic-related restrictions have kept visitors largely away from the National Trust of the United Kingdom’s historic properties, the houses have seen a three percent rise in common clothes moths and an 11 percent rise in insect pests overall. Clothes moths threaten to damage the elaborate wool and silk décor, much of it centuries-old. Since noticing damage to a wool carpet in Blickling Hall’s State Bedroom, the National Trust has partnered with the company Historyonics to use a unique combination of pest control measures against the moths.

Blickling Hall is listed in Britain’s earliest public record, the Domesday Book, which was written in the 11th century, Rob Picheta reports for CNN. The house was at one point the home of Geoffrey Boleyn, grandfather of Anne Boleyn, who may have been born there around 1507.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/historic-british-mansion-fights-moths-tiny-parasitic-wasps-180977061/

[rashore]

Very smart of them.