Random Thoughts on Moth Balls

I was just checking out my closet. Wanted to clean off my glasses so I went in there to get this cloth I use to clean them, it's some special micro fiber thing. Anyway. I got a whiff of mustiness. Didn't really smell bad and I thought about how I don't really clean the closet, at most I just throw shit out of it. Then I remembered moth balls. I remember running into them sometimes poking around when I was real young, but I never used them as an adult. Never occurred to me. I wonder if this is because I live in Colorado and not Massachusetts. Maybe moths aren't so much of a problem here, because of the climate perhaps. Maybe they aren't so much of a problem now. Have they eradicated this nuisance with pesticides? (I do remember seeing a lot of them on occasion, not that they bothered me. I recall being in New Haven and they would kind of hover around. They might have come out at twilight. Recall going through one neighborhood and people had posted some sort of anti-moth trap on trees. I think it might have had pheromones or something to attract them and kill them.) Maybe moths have been proven not to eat people's clothes. Maybe mothballs have been proven not to work. Maybe they do and everyone still uses them but me. If that's the case I can't say I've been bothered by the lack of them. Of course I don't use irons either, maybe I'm just slovenly.