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Clothes moths offer forensic clues by building fuzzy, hair-flecked cases; larvae pick up tresses from corpses to make their homes.(Life)
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December 20, 2008|
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RENO, Nev. -- Clothes moths will eat more than our wardrobe. Given a chance, they'll eat us too.
Casemaking clothes moth caterpillars can digest human hair and will feed on corpses. But it's not all bad news, scientists say. Hair bits nipped off of corpses by Tinea pellionella can yield enough DNA to identify the deceased, according to Sibyl Bucheli of Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
"It's important to think outside the box," says Jeff Tomberlin of Texas A&M University in College Station. He ranks Bucheli's idea as unusual but credible.
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