After finding the holes, I doubled down on keeping nature where I thought it belonged — outside my apartment. When I turned to Reddit and Wirecutter for help, I found that I wasn’t alone. Other people were warring against the invisible enemy, too, resorting to toxic mothballs that seem as likely to exterminate humans as insects. Some people even gave up and left their homes! I researched “screen repair,” put hormone traps in the backs of closets, sweaters in plastic tubs. One night I read an article about British ancestral homes whose priceless tapestries were being munched to bits. Their guardians had turned to tiny parasitic wasps called Trichogramma, which lay their eggs inside moth eggs, destroying the larvae. Wasps were arguably grosser than moths, but at least they didn’t eat my clothes. Were more bugs the answer?