Mole is an extremely unpleasant creature, especially when it appears in your home. There are many of its varieties, but most housewives know exactly what the food moth looks like, which begins to reign in the kitchen. To provoke its occurrence can be a huge number of factors, which can not be said about ways to get rid of unwanted neighborhood.
Where does the food moth take in food?
The moth hatchs from the larvae, which is understandable to any philistine. But where do these "incubators" come from in our packages, cans and other containers for cereals and other products? Even at the most clean and attentive mistress the chance to bring a moth to the house, along with the next batch of purchased groceries, is very high. A young moth hatched from the larva will very quickly cope with the gnawing of the packet and get out.
How to prevent the need to fight the larvae of food moths?
All that the landlady of the kitchen can do is to sort out and review the purchased cereals, sweets or flour before storing them for storage in a glass or metal container. And it should be done immediately after returning from the store, not postponing for an indefinite future. The use of such storage spaces will exclude the possibility of moths gnawing through the can walls, which will make it impossible to reproduce and damage the rest of the products afterwards. A container of glass will give the opportunity to notice in time "guest" and eliminate it.
How to get rid of food moth once and for all?
If you still had to establish the fact of the presence in your kitchen of moth, then you must immediately proceed to radical measures. First you need to see that the products have already been corrupted and ruthlessly get rid of them, how expensive they were not. Remaining untouched provisions should be poured into sealed containers of glass and iron.
Now you need to start washing. It is necessary to wash all the cabinets and shelves in them, utensils and other utensils, and this must be done qualitatively. It is best to do this with a solution of laundry soap. However, the epic does not end there. The next stage will be rubbing everything previously washed with vinegar, after which the kitchen or pantry should be well ventilated. After all these procedures, it is worthwhile to be on the alert for a few more days, during which time moths may appear from the larvae, which were missed for one reason or another.
Folk remedies for food moths
The national piggy bank is rich in ways and methods of getting rid of this insect, some of which are very useful and effective. For example:
- The original way of how to destroy the food moth is the use of peeled garlic cloves. They need to be put in the whole container, in which the products are stored and tightly closed. Interesting is the fact that the smell of garlic evaporates very quickly and is not completely absorbed into flour, cereals or sweets;
- the following method of fighting moths is sticking ventilation grilles, windowpanes and other possible ways to "fly" insects from neighbors, a fine grid;
- also save all that eats food moth, dry lavender will help, the bags with which you need to decompose
between containers with products or lavender oil ; - very effective are special traps for male moths, which are filled with pheromones that attract them into a trap. Buy them can be not everywhere, but online stores will definitely come to the rescue. These adaptations will exclude the possibility of depositing larvae, and the insect will become obsolete;
- You can also take advantage of the fact that the moth hates the cold and try to freeze it and the larvae of the products. However, the likelihood that you will want to use them in the future is clearly not high.