Did they notice that little ordinary butterflies are flying around the apartment? Prepare for unpleasant surprises. In your home a "wonderful" neighbor settled. Moth always evoked disgust and indignation, because we all understand that the apartment has a poorly ventilated and dark place, and hence there is a nest with moth larvae. Running after a butterfly and trying to kill her with a sneaker will not bring any level of results. The male flies across the apartment and while you run after him, the female calmly lays eggs, from which very hungry caterpillars soon hatch. They also eat your things, carpets, cereals and everything else keratinous. It is much easier to prevent the appearance of moles than to fight it. Moth can be of several types: clothing, fur coat, furniture, moth, eating cereals or flour. There is even a mole-lover of synthetics!
How to prevent the appearance of moths in the apartment?
Take yourself for a rule every six months to thoroughly inspect the apartment for the presence of all kinds of insects. Walk around all corners and cracks, air and wash all cabinets and especially those that you rarely look at. To begin with, we will learn to avoid the appearance of moths:
- Very damaging to the eggs of caterpillars is bright light, fresh air and high temperature. Use a hot iron before storing winter things for the summer period;
- If the apartment has a "strategic stock" of pillows and blankets, in the frosty winter, be sure to send them to the balcony for another day.
- At least once every six months, open all cabinets and drawers and arrange airing. Carefully inspect the sofas and secluded places.
- When folding winter jackets and autumn coats, put a special moth pill on the pill.
How to take out a moth in an apartment?
If you still did not keep track, and the moth managed to settle in your closets - we start urgently choosing a way to fight it. Combat moth can be done both folk methods, and with the help of ready-made drugs. All means of fighting moths are divided into two types:
- Fumigation. These are in the form of tablets, aerosols or blocks. It is very convenient to use these means for storing things in cabinets. Just put on each shelf and in each box one or two tablets. The contents of the tablet begin to evaporate and the mole simply dies of the poison.
- Contact. This is an effective remedy against moths who do not like to lay eggs and hide in closets, but prefer to do it in dark and secluded places. Spray the product is necessary on carpets, upholstered furniture (especially under the sofas in the corners). But the action of such drugs is only enough for a few months. There are special liquid preparations, it is quite possible to apply them to a fur coat or other things that for a long time will lie in a dark and closed cupboard.
Fighting moths with folk remedies
If you do not want to apply chemistry, you can use folk remedies against moles. Here are the most effective methods of combating moths with folk remedies:
- when you hide the woolen clothes for the summer period, put dried orange peels, tobacco or walnut leaves into pockets;
- collect autumn chestnuts in the shell and put them before the summer in the wardrobes with clothes;
- start growing on the windowsill geranium: this plant repels the moth well;
- A good tool for combating moths can be ordinary soap: just lay it between clothes in cabinets;
- Grains try to pour into glass jars, tightly closing the lid;
- Lavender will help to fight the moth, both in the form of a plant and in the form of an essential oil;
- dilute laundry soap in hot water and properly dip in this solution a canvas bag. After the bag has dried, you can put things in it.