Getting rid of moths

Mole in the house

From time to time in our homes suddenly start to flit butterflies tiny lovely: creamy, with wings, covered with golden scales and soft trimmed with fringe.:. Hostess with the active clap their hands and somehow very upset: mole started up!

Upset I had before, when the larvae of these lovely butterflies ate your wool and fur items. Now prihlopyvanie hatched butterflies gives little. After flitting mostly males, who do not eat nothing, and females, hiding in a quiet, secluded places, lay new eggs in the meantime - to three hundred pieces each. For the year to play four generations of the moth, and if all the eggs will be postponed and successful of them are displayed larvae, they can eat up to 30 kg of wool and other organic material: felt, leather, feathers, velvet bindings of books. The last time they tasted and synthetic fibers.

So, flying around our closets butterflies - this is not the enemy. This is a useful signal that should shake up, inspect and clean clothes, and along with shoes - felt, leather, fur-lined. If you encounter a dark gray butterfly - a sign that their larvae ate in your closet for something dark. Perhaps they settled down to your black astrakhan fur coat? Come on, take a look ..

Fortunately, the female wardrobe moth eggs scattered randomly, where necessary, and not all the larvae find food and grow. However, other types of moths lay their eggs prudently, where the offspring will be able to feed themselves. First of all they are attracted to the smell of stale clothes, sweat, food contaminants. Their meal moth larvae begin with smudges and arrange them to "dry cleaning" clean eating away the dirt with a cloth.

How to keep clothes from moths

Rule number 1: to remove the deposit of only thoroughly cleaned, broken free from dust, preferably proglazhennuyu iron, or better yet visited the factory, dry cleaning clothes.

Rule number 2: keep on the shelves of sweaters, jackets, pullovers and other knitwear, putting them in plastic or a paper bag. Moth larvae in search of food and gnaw the paper, and polyethylene, and cotton fabrics, but for butterflies moth is an insuperable barrier: it means that they can not put these things on the testicles. Even better things clean for long term storage in off-season time in a tightly sealable bags and boxes.

As for fur, there is usually not appropriate.
For it - rule number 3. Fur garments should hang freely, and in any case not in plastic covers: no air fur loses its quality, may begin to fall pile. Small things add up fur in paper bags and seal with tape or hold down clips. By the way, these packages can be sewn on the sewing machine out of several layers of newspapers. And pay attention to the newspapers were quite fresh: from ancient times noticed that butterflies moths are afraid of the smell of ink.

Fur and felt shoes to remove the storage, stuffed into newspapers and wrapping papers "

So here is rule number 4: do not keep the house extra wool and fur clothing. Maybe she needs someone else. Coat, which you treasure and wear often (and when to wear it in the current warm slushy winter), be sure to wear and walk down the street at least several times a season. Of principle. Put the spring in the sun and warm up thoroughly, turning from time to time. They say that it kills the eggs and larvae of moths. Although there is another view that the sun's heat has beneficial effects on the larvae hatch from eggs. So just in case, good clean fur brush and shake it: maybe the larvae fall off. After that, you can remove a sense of accomplishment of its deposit.

Storage of fur

To store the coats of the best cover of heavy paper, sometimes these are available in hardware stores. In the end, you can sew a cover of the same newspapers, Sew them on the machine to be enough to cover the entire length of the coat. Inside the package and put the covers of any medication or antimolny deterrent tool, which call ahead.

The fur is deposited before the harvest carefully comb with a stiff brush and inspect if there are any of cloth of silver-white silky cocoons the size of a match head, and a damn twisty tracks.
Getting rid of moths

Before we talk about chemical means to control moth,mention of the cleaner. It's sunlight, exercise, fresh air - they can not stand the moth larvae. That's why your favorite things that you often wear, mole is not dangerous. And unloved ... So that, if a little mole spoil them, you still do not wear them.

Other environmentally friendly means - a substance with a pungent odor that repels insects and butterflies of help to get rid of moths. Our grandmothers were put into chests camphor, pieces of cedar wood, tobacco, tobacco, leaf hops, walnut. Not bad act fresh orange and tangerine peel, dried already useless. Moths can not stand the smell of geranium, and leaves koleus - house plant, which is better known to us as a decorative nettle. Keep these undemanding plants on the window, and leaves freshly from time to time enclose in cupboards and drawers, removing old dried up.

Good means to get rid of moles - dried lavender, marjoram, mint, cloves. Caring lady specially sew cute bags "filled with these fragrant plants and placed on a hanger for clothes, under blankets. In addition to protection from moths, clothing becomes a pleasant fragrance.

On river banks and moist places low in the middle zone grows abundantly avens - like geraniums, with patterned leaves and inconspicuous flowers drooping burgundy plant. Its dried roots smell of cloves (no wonder it is also called clove root). This is also a good moth repellent and perfuming clothes.

Strong and persistent smell of moth repellent have lavender, fir needle, clove oil. Pieces of cotton wool soaked them laid out in the cabinet, as well as bags and covers, which houses the clothes. If you do not have these exotic oils, good cologne, "Lavender," "Pink" and the like.

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