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Folk remedies for moths

Folk remedies for moths

Moth is one of the most common and well-known domestic pests. You can hardly find a house in which they have never flown pale-looking moth butterflies. There are many folk ways to deal with it, but getting rid of moths in an apartment that once started up in the kitchen or in a closet is not so easy as it seems. You will have to find out what the moth living in your house is afraid of and use these funds regularly.

What are the difficulties

The main problem is that a moth butterfly, which can be easily seen and even killed, does much less harm than moth larva, which is derived from the eggs laid by a butterfly. Therefore, to destroy a flying insect does not mean solving the problem to the end. This method only helps to slow down its reproduction, but new butterflies will soon emerge from the remaining larvae and the process will continue.

There are other problematic issues, taking into account which the fight against moths sometimes becomes really difficult, and sometimes even a long one:

1. Moth usually lives in hard-to-reach places: pantries, on shelves with groceries, in cabinets and suitcases. You will have to conduct a real audit throughout the apartment, and this process is quite time-consuming.
2. Moth is an almost omnivorous insect; its larvae are capable of damaging even clothes made from 100% synthetic materials. Therefore, a tool that a mole does not like must be decomposed in absolutely all places where it could inhabit.
3. It is not always possible to use chemicals from moths, especially from food, or when there are small children and animals in the house — the risk of food poisoning is too great.
4. One moth butterfly is able to lay up to 120 eggs, from which then voracious larvae are hatched. That is why the destruction of all adults is so important.
5. Moth larvae are quite mobile. Even if cocoons with eggs are fixed to the ceiling or the bottom of the cabinet, hungry larvae crawl onto clothes to satisfy their appetite.

In addition, there are many varieties of moths, clothes and food moth only the most famous and common of them. There is also carpet fur coat, cereal, flour, fruit and other types of butterflies, which are divided according to food priorities. But the most interesting thing is that it’s really hungry moth larva can eat anything - even plastic insulation from electrical wires.

Industrial facilities

Everyone knows that the mole is most afraid of the smell of naphthalene. A few decades ago, this was perhaps the only reliable way to protect your home and things from an annoying insect. Naphthalene powder was laid out in all cabinets and suitcases, and he quite adequately coped with the task of destroying the insect.

Interesting!

In the middle of the last century, almost all winter things had a characteristic smell of naphthalene. Wealthy ladies - lovers of expensive fur coats tried to break the smell with the aroma of strong spirits, which made it especially piquant. Almost all of Moscow and other large cities smelled strongly of mothballs from mid-October to mid-April.

But, as it turned out over time, not only the moth was poisoned with mothballs.When inhaled, this substance can accumulate in human adipose tissue and is practically not excreted from the body. With sharp weight loss or active sports, adipose tissue is destroyed, and naphthalene enters the bloodstream, causing severe poisoning and provoking the growth of cancer cells.

Today on the market there are many funds from moths in various forms. Aerosols are popular:

• Armol;
• Clean house;
• Mosquitall "Protection against moths";
• Raptor.

Effective Moth Remedies are fumigators:

• Raid
• Mosquitall.

Sections from moths, manufactured by most manufacturers of anti-grinding agents, are hung in cabinets.

Folk remedies

According to the results of numerous scientific studies, folk remedies for the fight against moths are almost completely safe, but not always as effective as chemistry. If there are too many insects in the house, then these methods may not help, since they are primarily aimed at scaring them off. Then it is better to first treat the apartment with strong chemicals, then do a spring cleaning and use folk methods to protect yourself from its reappearance.

The basis of folk remedies for moths formed centuries-old observations of this insect. Our ancestors, who did not have potent products of the chemical industry at their disposal, observed what smells the moth does not like and in what conditions it does not survive.

It turned out to be curious that at a temperature of 15-20 degrees below zero, not only the larvae of the moth, but also its eggs die. So it’s easiest to just take things out in the cold for several hours. What was easy to do in the northern regions of Russia with severe climatic conditions. Living in warmer regions have adapted scare away moths with the smells of various plants.

The most effective folk remedies for moths were:

1. Lavender flowers. Usually use dry, which literally pour all the things in the closet. Moreover, according to popular belief, lavender removes negative energy, and bed and underwear, saturated with its smell, soothes and improves sleep.

   

2. Garlic or onion. It helps perfectly from moths, but it has a brightly grown specific smell that will not be too pleasant on clothes and other things. This popular way of protection is good in kitchens and grocery pantries.
3. Vinegar. It will also help to protect kitchen cabinets from which moths are stored against moths - a real treat for moth larvae. If you wipe their shelves at least once a week with a cloth dipped in vinegar diluted in half with water, there will be no smell and a harmful insect will not start.
4. Orange peels. Another food moth is afraid of the smell of the essential oil of orange as a fire, which dry peels retain for a very long time. If you spread their pieces throughout the kitchen and cabinets, the butterfly will not have a single chance to lay eggs and hatch larvae.
5. Essential oils. The easiest and most enjoyable way to deal with moths, especially since the choice here is quite large. Oils are best used: tea tree, thyme, rosemary, patchouli, cloves, lemongrass. Choosing a smell to your own taste (or you can choose your own for each room), you need to oil a piece of felt or fleece and spread it in your favorite habitat of the insect.
6. Mint leaves. A great way to protect wardrobes. Subtle mint aroma, even mixing with the smell of perfume, will even more shade and open it. Mint leaves must be replaced every six months.

   

7. Powder from a moth of feverfew. It is prepared from chamomile and is effective in places of accumulation of insects.
8. Geranium. As it turned out, the geranium flowers in the house are not only beautiful, but also very useful. Its smell does not even carry the mole to the spirit. And if in each room to put only one pot with this useful plant - the moth will go to look for another abode.

The above methods are only the simplest and most effective. folk remedies for moths. In fact, there are much more of them and, having tested several means, it is easy to find your own. The main thing is to start a campaign to combat moths as soon as possible, as soon as the first butterfly appeared in the house.