The warmth weather is bringing them out in droves from nooks and crannies in the house.

I spent Monday evening chasing the elusive little blighters round the living room with a rolled up paper, but as soon as I'm ready to swat the blighters turn into chameleons and vanish into the background.

I've already had one carpet eaten, now they have set to on a second and a third one upstairs -- despite a liberal sprinkling of mothballs in every corner.

The answer it seems is not to buy woollen carpets or replace them with noisy wooden floor coverings. If anyone has a solution let me know.