How to safely protect the mink coat from moths

Clothes and coat mole (although these are different types, but for a housewife they are all on the same face) - these are universal pests of natural textile products. Moth caterpillars feed on wool in any form, and for them there is no difference, beat an old worn sweater, a precious mink coat or someone's wig.

But it is the mole in the coat that usually causes the maximum irritation - after all, after the mink coat has eaten the mole, the thing becomes absolutely unpresentable. And therefore, to know how to protect the mink coat from moths, should every keeper of a good wardrobe.

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Fur coats and woolen things can be attractive not only for moths. They are also spoiled by kozheedy beetles, less common, but also significantly less noticeable indoors. The task of fighting for an expensive fur coat is made easier by the fact that products that are effective against moths also protect clothing well from leather.

 

How to protect a fur coat from moths

The best protection of the fur coat from moths is reliable prevention of the infection of the wardrobe by the pest. Moreover, in terms of labor-intensiveness, such prevention usually far exceeds the struggle with moths, but in most cases is a reliable guarantee that the moth in a fur coat will never start.

So, in order to protect your fur coat from moth, you should:

• Store fur coats and fur products in a separate wardrobe. In this case, the wool mole is less likely to move to a fur coat.
• To use a special cover for a moth fur coat - such thin cases are usually quite inexpensive, and are soaked from the inside with substances that frighten both moth butterflies and larvae. And hermetic closure of the cover will prevent insects from entering it, even after prolonged storage. The cover for moth fur coats Raptor is very well-known and has proven itself - it is made with all the achievements of this manufacturer in the fight against insects and effectively scares moth butterflies even with a large number of them indoors. However, it will be good to keep a mink coat from moth at least in the case in which it was sold.

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In no case should you keep a fur coat made of natural fur in a synthetic case! It is believed that an expensive product will simply suffocate in it.

• The next method of protection is to use an effective moth cleaner for the fur coat. Today there are a lot of such means, and some of them are designed specifically to protect fur products - Raptor Protection from Moth, Armol, Antimol, Mosquitall range of detergents. They either have no smell or smell of lavender, and in order to protect the fur coat from moths, the entire wardrobe should be handled with the cabinet’s walls from the inside at intervals specified by the manufacturer.

• The important point is to comply with quarantine measures. It is known that even expensive shops and boutiques can be infected by a pest, not to mention the Turkish sales and, especially, second-hand. Therefore, a purchased new fur coat or any clothes that will hang in a closet with a mink coat must be kept for several days in direct sun or hard frost. Such preventive measures will destroy moth larvae in case of their presence.

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The larvae of the fur coat moth are resistant to negative temperatures down to minus 10 ° С, therefore, it is advisable to freeze them only at very strong frost.

• Another way to protect against the fur moth is to use fumigators and scare agents. The first ones require connection to the outlet, but even in the case of an accidental moth hit, the fur coat will be safely protected - insects will die within a few days. Repellers such as dried lavender flowers, laundry soap and essential oils scare adult butterflies, but if they fall into the closet, the larvae will not be successful and will not help keep the fur coat from moths. In addition, it is better to use special moth sections, which are more convenient to use, instead of the indicated repellents.

It is most reliable to protect the mink coat from moths with the help of strong insecticidal preparations in the form of aerosols: The use of such tools usually gives an excellent result. It is also important that modern aerosol products do not affect the condition and appearance of the fur coat itself.

 

How to identify a pest: is it a mole?

In most cases, the mink coat and other fur products damage the mole. It can be either a wool moth or a fur coat moth. Photos of both species of butterflies are presented below:

And here is the larva of the fur coat moth:

Wool moth larva - in the photo below:

Moth larvae in a fur coat live very secretively and almost never get caught. They are rather inactive and are always at the base of the fur hair. Here they make of silk a small case that is replaced after each shed.

The moth eats almost exclusively the hairs of the fur, without touching the skin itself. This is very different from kozheedov - the larvae of the latter actively eat the very leather base of the fur.

Feedback

“I once ate a fur coat. It was terribly unpleasant, it was still in Soviet times, a fur coat - worth its weight in gold. The husband from the flight brought me a can after that, which I constantly squirted in the closet, and he helped. Today there are many such cans. I now use the Raptor and give my daughter, it helps a lot. But I regularly look at the fur coats for confidence. ”

Inna, Murmansk

A moth eats a fur coat fairly “neatly”, if I may say so, it moves around a little and creates small bald spots. The photo below shows a fur coat eaten by a mole:

Only separate spots without fur are visible - it is immediately clear that the mole has just begun to have a fur coat. In general, if a mole started up in a mink coat,it can be clearly seen almost immediately:

1. The fur becomes messy, with shreds and irregularities where the larva has just begun to feed.
2. In the case and under the very fur coat, fur hairs constantly accumulate - when the moth eats the fur coat, it loses a large number of nibbled hairs.
3. Obvious "folds" of fur, appearing where the larva crawls.

Very much the larva spoils the fur when it moves: it does not just crawl between the hairs, but cuts off the path itself. The photo shows how the fur deteriorates after the mole eats it:

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In nature, the mole eats hair and feathers in the nests of rodents and birds. There are species of moth, the larvae of which settle in the horns of antelope and gnaw them from the inside. It is not surprising that a mole eats wool in man’s homes - its digestive system is ideally suited to digest keratin-containing integuments of animals.

But the most obvious sign of the defeat of a fur coat with moths are the butterflies and caterpillars with fur, and in the wardrobe in general. If the pest and the fur coat were together in the same wardrobe, only a quick and decisive action can save the fur coat from moths.

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Unlike caterpillars, moths of Kozheedov do not build covers around their bodies, and they look somewhat different - these worm-like creatures are quite mobile, and their body is covered with bristles of hard hairs. In general, in cabinets and apartments, they are less likely to moth.

 

If the moth is wound up in a mink coat: quick destruction

If a mole is wound up in a fur coat, the best option for its destruction will be the use of powerful modern insecticides. Such preparations, if properly used, allow for a few hours to destroy all insects in the closet and in the fur coat itself, without damaging the fur product.

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Folk remedies and repellent section from the moth will not help bring the mole from fur coats, they are more suitable for the prevention of infection. If the pest is wound up in clothes - you need to take on more radical drugs.

The most effective for the destruction of the pest aerosol insecticides Armol, Antimol, Raptor Protection from Moths, Extramit and Clean house. With any of these moth remedies, it is sufficient to process the fur coat once in a spacious room, sprinkling it from all sides and on all folds.After that, the fur coat is placed in a case or for several days in a plastic bag, into which an additional spray is sprayed.

If these products cannot be found on the market, some aerosols and sprays against other insects can be used in the same way — many of them also effectively destroy moths. It is important only before use to check that the product is odorless and does not leave marks on the fabric, otherwise the treated fur coat will be unsuitable for wearing.

Fumigators for the quick destruction of moths should not be used - they are designed for the gradual destruction and long-term struggle with the pest.

It will be enough to pass the fur coat to the dry-cleaner effectively or to treat it with heat. With the latter can help in the sanitary epidemiological station. A fur coat on a hot summer day in the salon of a car left in the sun, or taking out clothes in the dead of frost outside, will also give the result. But such steps should be repeated several times - practice shows that some larvae and pupae of the moth can survive after such executions.

 

Is it possible to save a mole-beaten fur coat?

If the moth has eaten a fur coat, then the possibility of saving an expensive product primarily depends on the degree of damage.For example, in the photo below you can see how a fur coat eaten by moth looks like - if the mole eats the fur coat so hard, you have to either throw it away or give it to the homeless:

Feedback

“My mole ate a mink coat. So offensively - we went to Greece for the whole summer, returned, and in the wardrobe only some rags hang. Her husband's fur hat broke, gloves. What to do, I do not even know. There were always records in the closet, but there was no sense from them. She pulled out her fur coat, gave her hat to the watchman at work, and now I’m afraid to buy a new fur so that nothing like this happens. ”

Alena, Novosibirsk

If the moth has eaten a fur coat quite a bit, having managed to cut only a small area, then the place of damage can be painted over with a marker in the color of the fur. Sometimes it is effective to repaint the entire coat to the color of the skin itself. It is only important not to make "sharp movements" and not to try to radically change the color of the entire product.

If a small bald patch appears in one place, but the mole is safely destroyed, you can carefully cut the damaged area and stitch the skin from the inside. In case of a slight damage, there will be no trace of the operation on the surface of the fur coat At a more serious scale, the baldness will have to be stuck with a brooch or a picture.

Finally, in some cases, even with serious damage, the battered section can simply be cut out: make a sleeveless jacket from a fur coat, for example, or cut off long floors, simply by shortening the product. However, for this it is better to use the services of the studio.

Have you checked your mink coat in the closet for a long time?

 

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