The fight against moths has been waged by people for a very long time, but neither high-tech tools nor the achievements of the chemical industry do not completely help to get rid of it. The reason for this vitality lies in the diversity of types of moths and the need to take into account when fighting the characteristics of each of them.
In other words, depending on the habitat and the food consumed, methods of dealing with moths differ.
Fight against indoor types of moths - clothes, fur coats, furniture
The greatest financial loss and psychological discomfort is delivered by the room moth, which must be dealt with comprehensively and especially thoroughly. Under this common name refers to several different types of insects: clothes, fur coat, furniture. These butterflies come in different shades of yellow, live in the folds of clothes and furniture joints.
Clothes moth it is omnivorous - it feeds on wool, silk and plant foods.In other words, the clothes moth can be fed with carpets, rugs, upholstery, grain, groats, flour, and bread.
Fur coat mole prefers fur, wool, felt, felt, and can also feed on feathers and down.
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The fur coat of the mole, settled in the fur, not so much eats it, how many it gnaws at the roots when it is moved (this is done moth caterpillars). That is why the fur coat of the mole can be recognized by the numerous hairs of fur, dotting the space under the fur coat.
A furniture moth is very similar to a clothes room, but it is more dangerous, it multiplies faster and damages a larger circle of materials. She lives in the upholstery of upholstered furniture, on the wrong side of sofas and chairs, in closets and on the bookshelves. The furniture moth is unpretentious and can parasitize also on semi-synthetic products.
On a note
Almost all the moths that can be seen flying around the apartment are completely harmless males. They have no oral apparatus, that is, they do not eat and cannot cause harm. The main danger is moth larvaewho eat away clothes and pieces of furniture, as well as females laying eggs.
You can fight moths with preventive and liquidation measures.Preventive measures to control moths in an apartment are aimed at preventing the very possibility of the appearance of moths, and liquidation measures are designed to get rid of already existing insects.
The liquidation measures to combat room moth include the following:
- shaking out clothes and the subsequent mechanical destruction of falling larvae
- warming clothes in the sun on hot days
- washing at temperature more than 40-45 ° С
- treatment of clothes with aerosol insecticides.
Preventive control of moths in the house includes airing in the open air and drying things in the sun, storing clothes only in a clean state, periodic cleaning and washing of furniture, including disinfectants.
On a note
One of the oldest funds from moths and dealing with it is naphthalene, but its effectiveness is somewhat exaggerated. Naphthalene balls actually scare away adult moths, but they are completely useless against the larvae. At the same time, it is considered a carcinogen and can be more dangerous to human health than a mole to an apartment’s sanitation.
It is always better to prevent the appearance of a moth in an apartment than to fight it.
It is possible to fight the already existing moth in the house not only by mechanical cleaning and washing, but also using chemical preparations. Conventionally, they can be divided into contact and fumigation.
Contact agents are insecticidal solutions or aerosols that must be applied to the affected surface. Caterpillars moth, eating and even just crawling on the things treated in this way, will soon die.
Mole control fumigation agents are tablets and plates that are placed in places where moths can live. Slowly evaporating, they also kill pests.
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“I never thought that a mole is such a living insect and it is so difficult to fight against it! It seems that everything was revised, washed and aired - all the same from somewhere periodically appear. I bought special records, but they don't seem to work. Now I was advised to have a can of Armole, but I am afraid that it should not be poisonous. ”
Christina, Nikolaev
Currently, there are many drugs from moths and to combat it. Aerosols Raptor "Protection from moths", Mosquitall (Moskitol) and "Armol Expert" are effective against both butterflies and moth larvae.
"Morimol", "Mittoks", "Supromit", "Foksid" - solutions for the protection of upholstered furniture and carpets. "Antimol" and "Dezmol" - plates against moth butterflies.
Kitchen moth and ways to get rid of it
Many believe that the mole is found only in living rooms, but to fight with moths in the kitchen is no less exhausting. Grain (food, kitchen) mole has a silvery-white color and lives in grains - wheat, rye, barley, etc. In addition, it can also spoil dried fruits and berries, nuts and seeds.
Unlike the room moth, it is impossible to fight with the food moth simply by spraying food with chemicals (because then the poison gets into the food, which is unacceptable). That is why the fight with moths in products is often protracted and requires the complete elimination of stocks of contaminated food.
Starting to deal with cereal moth should be with the inventory of products. Lumpy grains, gray bloom and cobwebs indicate that the mole has already been here. You can get rid of the larvae by thoroughly heating the cereal in the oven or leaving it for a few days in the freezer, but it is still better to discard the spoiled product.
Fight with moths in the kitchen is better for the plan. Kitchen furniture should be washed with soapy water, wiped with vinegar and well ventilated. All contaminated products are easy to throw away. And in the future, pay attention to the quality and volume of food purchased, do not give products to "stagnate"
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"In the month before the house stood empty, a mole appeared in the kitchen. And how to deal with this infection? Caterpillars crawl in the corners, butterflies fly under the ceiling, and love is there. Without thinking twice, I spent the general cleaning, threw away everything that was left of the products. Furniture, just in case, wiped it with vinegar. And suddenly it worked! I didn’t think that folk recipes help so much. ”
Oksana, Murom
Methods of dealing with potato moths
One of the most dangerous pests of potatoes is the potato moth, the control measures against which must be carried out both during the cultivation of potatoes and during storage. The potato moth is a small gray-brown insect, the larvae of which gnaws twisting backdoors inside the tubers.
It is necessary to fight with potato moth in a complex and planned way:
- plant only the healthy tubers to the maximum allowed depth, preheating them;
- periodically spud and warm the landing;
- beforehand to mow and destroy the tops;
- process the harvested potatoes by special means (Dendrobatsillin, Entobakterin, Lepidotsid) and stored at a temperature of 3-5 ° C.
As you can see, methods of dealing with potato moths include both agrotechnical and chemical measures.
How to get rid of tomato moth
Tomato moth, affecting the culture of tomato, eggplant, potato, pepper, looks like a potato moth. It is an exceptionally prolific insect with high adaptability.
Measures to combat tomato moth:
- greenhouse insulation and disinfection
- regular weed control in the open field;
- the use of special traps as indicators of the appearance of the tomato moth;
- burning tops;
- the use of biologics (Bowerin, Batsiturin), and, if necessary, chemical agents, for example, Aktara, Aktellik, Fufanon.
Chestnut Mining Moth
Chestnut miner mole is a horse chestnut and sometimes maple parasite. Having a very small number of natural enemies, is extremely dangerous for all types of these trees.
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The chestnut moth caterpillar gnaws winding passages - mines in the leaves of a tree. As it develops, it molts, leaving a rounded dark spot in place of the molt.Before becoming an adult insect, it can destroy up to 90% of the leaves of a tree!
Measures to combat chestnut mining moths include the use of a rider-trichogram, parasitic on the larvae of moths, feeding trees and improving the soil, as well as introducing Imidacloprid-based preparations into tree vessels - with it the leaves of the tree become poisonous to the moth.
Apple Mole
Apple moth is an extremely dangerous pest of fruit trees, and not only apple trees. Apricots, plums, pears, cherries and other trees also suffer from it.
The apple moth butterfly is light gray, almost white, with numerous white spots on its wings, the caterpillar is greenish with two rows of black dots. It is the caterpillars that twist the web with the leaves of the trees and clean the foliage on separate branches cleanly. In the event of a serious injury, a small tree can remain completely without vegetative parts.
To combat this fruit moth should begin ahead of time:
- Before the flowering period, spray the trees with insecticide.
- Hang up pheromone traps in the garden - to control the presence and amount of apple moth.
- In time to collect and destroy the infected leaves.
- Attract the apple moth, os-braconid, to the gardens of natural enemies.
- If necessary, apply additional chemicals.
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“Last year we were late with the processing of trees in the garden. It seemed they knew about the apple mole and how to deal with it, but missed the moment, and the harvest turned out to be small and beaten. But in this the fungicide was used and the traps were hung, so here and there were local cobwebs, but they could easily be collected by hand or equipment! ”
Stepan Nikolaevich, Kherson
Each type of moth has its own specific qualities and leads a unique way of life for it. Not surprisingly, measures that are effective, for example, in the fight against the fur moth, will not give the expected result against the furniture moth. Therefore, each type requires its own approach and a competent combination of methods and preparations.
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