A small nondescript moth fluttering around the house is a bad sign. Very soon, your dwelling will be replenished with her heirs in the form of larvae capable of gnawing holes in sweaters, spoiling a fur coat, or spoiling croup in the kitchen. Waving off moths is unreasonable, products and expensive new things cost a lot, and only one yellow butterfly is able to leave in a secluded place in the form of an unpleasant gift from 60 to 300 eggs.
What kind of moth was in your apartment?
- The grain moth is usually silver-white or light-brown in color. She likes flakes, cereals, flour.
- Dressing varieties of insects are more likely to try and tear things from natural wool. Save them from moths in the closet is extremely difficult. The clothing, furniture or fur coat moth has wings of a yellow hue. The caterpillars of these butterflies are gluttonous and vermicular. They are usually built in the laying of cloth, in furs.
- The furniture version spoils the upholstery of sofas and chairs, eats out the tracks in the wood. Alas, but the conditions of the apartment perfectly suited the insect, the yellow butterflies multiply in our houses year-round.
How to fight moths with folk remedies?
The destruction of the grain variety of moth is not an easy task. Products can be frozen out, low temperatures are capable of killing it at any stage of development. Also in the question of how to deal with food moths in the city kitchen, boiling and disinfection with steam helps. It is believed that the quartz lamps and direct sunlight, which violate the protein metabolism in her, therefore, in such conditions, the moth does not live. Help to drive out the aliens some plants. Leaves of tobacco are laid out in a closet or placed in small bags of cloth. A flowering plant can be kept directly on the windowsills. From garlic make broths, which spray the headset, close it for ten hours, and then air. Of other plants that the moth avoids, you can call citrus, geranium and lavender .
Finished products from moths
To combat moth in the home, manufacturers joined. The most effective ready-made products are sticky tapes, sprays, hanging sections, tablets, various plates, liquids. If you do not venture to poison her with chemistry, then buy a flower powder - feverfew. This harmless product is prepared from different varieties of chamomile. The universal thing is fumigators, they poison not only the mosquito, but also the moth.