How to deal with the moth? This question arises when a gray butterfly finds an unpleasant appearance in kitchen stocks or traces of its activity on clothing.
The greatest trouble is voraciouscaterpillars, which actively destroy home products and ruthlessly spoil things in cabinets. The whole day will be enough for such a larva to gnaw through a hole in a woolen sweater. In everyday life there are about 30 kinds of moths, and all of them lead wrecking activity in relation to a person. How to deal with the moth in the apartment?
A moth that lives in closets does not like fresh airand a bright light, so do not touch things that are worn often. But with respect to winter clothes, it is unreadable, feeds on felt, wool, natural velvet, fur. In an effort to get to the food, it easily gnaws on the plastic bags and synthetic fabrics found on the way. Caterpillars of "fur coat" moths can withstand the temperature drop to 0aboutC and can spend a whole month without food.
You can fight moth in many ways:effective as folk methods, time-tested, and modern drugs. The most famous anti-mole agent in its time was considered to be naphthalene. However, the large-scale use of such a tool has led to the development of the stability of some moth populations to it. In addition, it was found that the drug causes great harm to human health, because it is a carcinogen - a factor that causes the appearance of malignant tumors. How to deal with moths in other ways that do not endanger health in ways?
How to fight moths with folk remedies?Of the traditional drugs, tobacco is effective, the sharp odor of which is absolutely not tolerated by insects. In a living flowering form, this plant should be kept on the windowsill, periodically placing it in a moth box.
Growing indoors live geranium will also scare away its odor of unpleasant butterflies. It is recommended that the fresh leaves of the plant be laid out on the shelves of the lockers.
However, such natural remedies are onlyonly repellents - scaring substances. In the presence of moles, chemical preparations should be used, the assortment of which in the consumer market is represented by various forms.
How to deal with moth chemicals?Aerosols and sprays (Antimol, Clean House, Armol, Raptor, Extram) are solutions of powerful insecticides that are stored in a cylinder under high pressure. Sprayed in a room or wardrobe, they are poisonous for larvae and adult moths. Simple in use, such drugs are characterized by quickness of action and have a low cost. True, insecticides during and after treatment will have to inhale not only moths, but also to humans. It is especially difficult in this case have allergies.
The use of aerosols in comparison with the restantimolym means is, perhaps, the most laborious. When destroying moths, in addition to the surfaces of cabinets, it is required to handle all clothing, furniture upholstery, carpets. Often the volume of one cylinder with the drug is not enough. After a few hours in the room you need to clean up, and things to wash and air thoroughly. The treatment, carried out in full accordance with the instructions, will allow to get rid completely of the clothes, furniture and fur coats.
In the kitchen, the use of aerosolsare very limited. They can process cabinets and nightstands, previously exempt from products. The places of concentration of larvae in food stocks with such insecticides can not be processed.
Sufficiently simple to use fumigators (DiC-3,Raid, Mosquitall): you just need to plug in the product and forget about it. In the cabinet you can stretch the extension. The action is somewhat stretched in time: the effect occurs for a period of 3 days to 2 weeks. But the accumulation of insecticides in the air will be several times lower than when treated with aerosols. The principle of operation consists in heating the aromatic insecticide plate and evaporation of the poison agent when the fumigator is turned on. Sometimes the plates are replaced with special fluids that act similarly. Dimensions of fumigators are relatively small, approximately 95 * 60 * 50 mm; area up to 30 m2.
How to deal with the moth in the apartment?In addition to aerosols and fumigators, there are special sections from moths (Mosquitall, "Raptor"). Characterized by preventive action and are designed more to deter adult insects than the destruction of their larvae. Therefore, the use of such devices is recommended before the appearance of a winged pest in the house. Produced in the form of suspended and attached plates with various flavors that repel the insect: chamomile, tangerine, lavender. Anti-melt action of 2 sections extends to ½ m2 area of the cabinet. Replacement with new ones takes about 4 months. It is recommended that the chemical be stored out of the reach of children, away from food.
How to deal with a domestic moth to get rid offrom her forever? In combination with natural and chemical methods, you need to get rid of moles in a physical way. Traps for flies are used for catching butterflies. If the insects are wound in the croup, and their number is not horrible, then the grains can be sorted and heated in the oven at 60 degrees for 40 minutes. Detected in the cabinet nest should be eliminated, its location carefully vacuumed, shake all things from the cabinet and put it in a cold place for a day (for example, on a balcony).
The food (grain) moth settles in cereals, flour,dried fruits; its larvae in the caterpillar stage are able to spoil almost all the edible stocks. Adults have no mouth, so they do not eat at all. Despite the short life (not more than a week), butterflies have time to lay to 100-150 eggs. Under favorable conditions (high humidity, warm temperature and lack of ventilation), the insect reproduction proceeds in a continuous cycle. How to deal with food moths in the kitchen?
Get rid of food moth should be veryneatly, in several stages. It is necessary to check all the stocks of cereals, flour, sugar. If an insect is found with damaged products, it is necessary to say goodbye or to burn in a frying pan and sift.
In order to prevent the appearance of moths in the household, it is recommended:
Outdoors, in the suburban areascabbage moth. Inconspicuous externally, it causes significant damage to garden crops, in particular cabbage. After leaving the egg, the caterpillars feed only on cabbage heads and other cruciferous crops. By gnawing intricate tunnels, they hit the plant and are capable of completely destroying it.
How to deal with the cabbage moth?It is required to fight with it in a complex way, because the pest is characterized by the property of developing resistance to effective drugs in the previous season. It is necessary to process chemically. The best means are:
In parallel with the chemical treatment of caterpillarsyou need to collect manually. This method will protect against the mass appearance of adult eggs laying eggs. It is necessary to remove weeds and dig well in the place of cabbage growth. This is necessary in order to prevent the overwintered individuals from reaching the surface of the soil.
There is still such a kind of moth as a miner.The small insect received its name from the old word "mine", which implies the creation of hidden moves. It is in this way that the caterpillars of mining moths damage the leaves of plants from the inside. And it is very difficult to identify an external pest: only the death of a plant indicates its presence.
In the fight against "miners" effectively usechemical preparations, namely: Bi-58, Karate, Dimilin, Confidor maxi, Aktara, Aktofit. If there are several generations of mining moth, sprinkling should be carried out repeatedly.
How to deal with the moth during the flight?To do this, in greenhouses and open ground, it is required to hang glued plates, plates, pieces of yellow plastic, placing them at the level of the main leaf mass along the rows of plants. Before flying to the trunks of trees stick glue belts. It is also important to remove the affected parts of plants and then destroy them manually. In autumn it is necessary to clean up under the tree and compost the fallen leaves, and carefully trench the trunks.
