Mole can appear in any house. It can cause a lot of trouble: spoil the cereals or other products (nuts, dried fruits and so on), spoil the woolen things and the like. Today you can get rid of this scourge very easily. What ways to do this better, we'll tell you in this article.
There are different types of moths: furniture, cabbage, grain, wax, rye, carpet, food moth and so on. Therefore, in order to choose an effective remedy for the disposal of moths, it is first necessary to determine the type of moth. It is also necessary to understand that the moth is not just a moth with wings, it is a caterpillar that lays eggs. Males are absolutely harmless, but females lay eggs everywhere. The mole grows very quickly, so in just a couple of weeks it can become several times larger than it was originally.
Kitchen Mole
With a kitchen moth faced, probably, every housewife. Even with absolute cleanliness in cabinets with cereal grains, moth can still appear. Also, the moth often appears in nuts. The most dangerous for the kitchen is a grain moth. Victims of its larvae are usually flour, cereals and dried fruits. The most comfortable conditions for the reproduction of kitchen moths are the lack of ventilation against the background of high humidity.
How can we get rid of the grain moth? To begin with, it is necessary to store the products properly. All cereals and dried fruits should be placed in tightly closed containers. In extreme cases, tightly bound polyethylene bags. If the product has a mole, then they must immediately be thrown out, because they can not be used for food. If the insects are quite a bit, then the products can be tried to save. To begin with, they must be unnecessarily touched and dried in the oven with the door ajar for 20 minutes at a temperature of 65 degrees. You can use for these purposes an microwave oven.
After you have moved the food, you need to clean all the cabinets and shelves in which they were stored with a warm soap solution. Each slot and each groove of the cabinet needs to be wiped with table vinegar. Then all the cabinets need to be ventilated until they are completely dry.
Room moth
Kitchen moth, as a rule, appears only in the warm season of the year. A room moth can appear anytime. Woolen moth (fur coat, felt, felt) breeds and reproduces all year round. It can cause a lot of harm to your things, which are made of fur, felt, natural velvet, feathers, wool. In addition to clothing, this kind of moth can damage waxes, which are made of wax, as well as book bindings. Sometimes the moth, to get to the "food", damages even plastic bags and synthetic fabrics. The room moth curlers are very tenacious and can spend a month dealing with bezidae. They also calmly experience a decrease in temperature to 0 degrees. Each representative of moths lives on average about two years. During this time, the moth has time to spoil a lot of things.
Get rid of wax and woolen moths is not so simple. Affected things will have to be treated with a special drug based on dichlorfos. For the time being, there is no more effective remedy against the mammoth.
If the moth was in the apartment, then undoubtedly she managed to put off the larvae. As a prophylaxis against moth larvae, you can use bright sunlight with fresh air. Neither for anyone, it's a secret that those things that a person often spills, the mole does not touch. Therefore, it is necessary first of all to take care of technical issues that are rarely used (for example, winter coats and the like). Before you hang a thing in the closet, it must be thoroughly washed and cleaned. Caterpillars moth first of all start their meal with dirty stained spots, eating the cloth cleanly together with the mud. Purified things must be packed in plastic bags, and fur coats should be stored in special coats, made of thick paper, impregnated with an antifouling preparation. Before packing, shake them well - the moth fixes its eggs to the fibers of the fabric is not very tight, so they can easily fly off .
Preparations against moths
In the shops you can find a lot of anti-mollusc products. They are available in the form of tablets, plates and sprays. The most economical option is tablets and briquettes. They are made on the basis of naphthalene and i-amphora. Place the tablets at the top of the cabinet, since the pairs of naphthalene and camphor are heavy, they gradually go down and do not allow moths to lay the larvae on clothes in the closet. However, such drugs can be dangerous to human health.
Modern antimolievye plates are produced with a more pleasant smell or even without it. But these tools will not last more than six months.
Atimolia sections are very popular today. Such products have a pleasant scent of lavender, mandarin or chamomile. To activate this drug, you just need to remove the protective film and place the section on the top of the cabinet. In six months, the drug should be replaced. However, and such a tool has some contraindications to use. Do not place more than two plates in a room measuring 15 square meters. Such means should be kept as far as possible from products and from children. They can also be dangerous to health.
An alternative to chemical drugs can become natural remedies that have been used for many generations and have produced a good result.
Folk remedies against moths
Previously, our grandmothers used naphthalene to fight smol. However, this substance is very dangerous for health, since it is considered a strong carcinogen, which can trigger the development of cancer. Therefore, such a tool can not be used in any case.
To get rid of moths without harm to your health, the best way is to give preference to natural ingredients. For example, lavender and fir essential oils excellently repel the mole. You can use flowers and lavender. To do this, dry them a little, put them into gauze bags and place them on the shelves of the cabinet. You can do otherwise - soak a cotton swab in the oil and put it on the shelves. The moth does not like these smells, so it will leave your home.
Butterflies moths do not tolerate other smells: pepper, strawberry soap, tobacco, garlic and dry orange peels. Garlic helps to get rid quickly of cereal moth. It is enough to put them in a jar of garlic cloves. In such banks the moth will never start again.
Moth does not like the smells of some domestic plants: geraniums and cola. Such plants are unpretentious in the care and many people raise them specifically so that the house does not start insects. Leaves of fresh geranium can be placed in a closet with things. From time to time they need to be replaced. Then it will never appear there.
However, before resorting to popular methods of emancipation from moths, it is necessary to know that all these tools will help only if the moth does not postpone the larvae. All these tools are used for scaring away, so no bouquet of lavender will help, if the moth has already been occupied by your wardrobe. To get rid of caterpillars and larvae, you will have to use chemical agents.
The best way to avoid the appearance of moths in the house is to conduct timely preventive measures: to ventilate the premises, not to allow high humidity in the cabinets with groceries and groats, to ensure direct sunlight access to the cabinets, to monitor the cleanliness of clothing and so on. It is easier to prevent the appearance of moths, than to get rid of it later.