What to do if moths have appeared in your apartment: the most effective methods of control

Moths in an apartment can appear not only in a wardrobe, but also in a bag of dried fruit, boxes of cereals, in a word – in the kitchen.

Here you need to take the most decisive measures, especially if you have expensive wardrobe items made from natural materials - wool, fur coat, cotton.

We will tell you how to get rid of the pest and take measures for the future.

Method one

The best option, if it is winter, is to open the windows and leave the house for a long time. The frost will physically destroy the pest. As for expensive clothes, you can shake them out on the balcony and hang them there on hangers, opening the windows wide.

If a moth or its offspring lives in a fur coat, then at 5 degrees below zero they will cease to exist.

Method two

You can freeze individual things, but in general it will be difficult to bring the temperature in the house to -5. Therefore, the remaining areas need to be treated, and the best assistant in this case is a steamer or a building hair dryer. Moths do not tolerate frost and temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. Steam treatment puts an end to the future of adult individuals and all offspring.

The advantage of heat treatment is that it can be carried out in the kitchen, where chemicals cannot be used.

Remedies for moths

It is worth understanding that the proposed means act as repellents. For a merciless fight against the pest, it is necessary to use chemicals that destroy everything that is born to fly and crawl. This is the usual dichlorvos.

After such treatment, it makes sense to use plates and other repellents with traps.

At this stage, you can use folk remedies such as lavender, cloves or tansy, citrus fruits or bay leaves, vinegar and ammonia.

Of the technical compounds, moths do not like naphthalene and kerosene.

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• 5 January 2023

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