An insect you may not want to be kind to | Brief letters

Clothes moths | Salvator Mundi | The Four Counties Ring | Liam Rosenior | Roman AbramovichOh no: an article about how we can be kind to insects (G2, 21 May). Does this go for clothes moths too? They have just eaten through my only ever cashmere sweater. When he sees them, my husband says: "It's no use killing them - I should torture them and ask where they are coming from." The Indian tapestry, I suspect. What do they eat in the wild? Is our house "the wild" for them? Do I have to be kind to them?Margaret SquiresSt Andrews, Fifeo If Noah Charney wishes to include the recently sold Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo, in his forthcoming book (Raiders of the lost art, G2, 21 May), he should first look at the many representations of the same subject by Bernardino Luini, in all of which the same error in the depiction of the sphere is made. Luini was a painter from Leonardo's circle and worked in a similar idiom.Deirdre ToomeyLondon Continue reading...