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Food moth - what to do if you find it in your home: why is this pest dangerous
10.03.2023 12:00
Updated: 14.04.2023 14:24
The food moth and its offspring - caterpillars - are not as harmless as they seem, and the point here is not that the parasites will spoil food supplies.
With their appearance, residents may suddenly develop diseases such as rhinitis and conjunctivitis, allergies. This occurs when inhaling the waste products of insects.
Therefore, it is necessary to fight household pests in the most thorough manner.
Here are some helpful tips to help you avoid pests.
Prevention
Food supplies are always good, but only if there is a possibility to store them without consequences. It is known that parasites most often start in warehouses or stores. Once at home, they can expand their habitat, climbing from a bag of flour into cereals, sugar, pasta, dried fruits.
What to do
1. Having discovered food moths in the house, you should immediately start checking your grocery supplies. You should carefully review all products.
2. It will be easier to throw away products in which pest larvae have appeared. But this is not enough.
3. Shelves, drawers and cabinets where spoiled products were stored should be treated most thoroughly. In the kitchen, it is safer to use table vinegar or a solution of laundry soap.
After cleaning, you need to ventilate and dry the food storage areas.
It is better to put away any supplies that do not arouse suspicion in the refrigerator.
To prevent this situation from happening again in the future, it is recommended to store all groceries together with aromatic spices - hot peppers, bay leaves or garlic.
