- Kinds of food moths
- Food moth traps
- Useful advices
Food moth trap is a tool for getting rid of unwanted pests that are planted even in the cleanest apartment. Even if you carefully pack all the food, regularly look through the lockers, be sure that you will not have to face such a misfortune. What are the means for catching flying parasites, how to apply them and whether you really need to do this, you will learn from this article.
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There are such types of food moths as:
- Flour saucepan. It is the most common in homes and apartments.
- Miller's fire. She does not live in living quarters, but in barns she can be met quite often.
- South barn fire. A kind of moth that is very hard to pull out.
- Cocoa fire. It often occurs in banks with cereals.
Important! The food moth feeds on such kinds of products as cereals, flour, dry food, nuts, dried fruits, tea, chocolate, spices, legumes, and even in forage for various animals. The life span of such a pest is only a few weeks, but its offspring in the form of larvae live much longer - somewhere up to 2 months. And all this time and adults and "young" damage your stocks.
An adult food moth lays up to 400 eggs and in hard-to-reach places and spoils the appearance of products. Very few people like it, therefore, and ask the people who are facing the problem what traps for food moths are most effective.
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Food moth traps have a pleasant smell on which insects fly. Immediately they stick and after a while die. Such adaptations can be found in large supermarkets and even in small shops of household chemicals. The most popular is the trap for food moth "Raptor".
Purpose
This type is designed to protect food from food moths indoors.
Description
Raptor from food moth has such advantages:
- It does not contain toxic substances.
- No tangible to humans.
- Easy to use.
- Complete with 1 plate, the effect of which extends to 10-15 m2.
Manufacturer
Latvia
Instruction for use:
- Take the raptor.
- Open the packaging.
- Remove the plate.
- Open the protective film on the back.
- Glue in the right place.
- Remove the protective paper layer from the outside - it contains an adhesive working layer with a pattern.
Important! The applied perforation allows you to suspend it. It is permissible to outweigh or re-glue the product to another location if the mole has decided to migrate from danger.
Duration of the device
Trap from food moths "Raptor" retains its useful properties for up to 90 days, not from the date of manufacture, but from the moment the protective layer has been peeled off.
Safety Precautions
After you have placed the muco-destroying remedy in a tactically advantageous place, you should wash your hands well with any detergent.
Important! Keep it out of the reach of children and animals. Although it is not toxic, it is not worthwhile to expose sensitive organisms to chemical substances.
Alternative tools
In addition to the above described means, other traps are also available in the current market, such as:
- "Globol";
- "Aeroxon".
Important! As an active ingredient they use the attractant - the sex pheromone of insects, therefore they are also safe for you personally. But from advertised aerosols and preventive strips should be discarded, if you are worried about your health.
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In order not to use various means for the destruction of insects, you must adhere to some rules:
- Check food before buying.
- Avoid low-quality products and at a price that is reasonably low.
- Make a supply of products so that they do not lie down.
- Use repellent means:
- Herbs that smell strongly - wormwood, lavender, rosemary. Put sometimes in rooms bunches of them or put a few dried branches on the windowsill.
- Essential oil - periodically wipe them with wooden surfaces or lay out in the kitchen and in the rooms a fleece soaked in a product with a pleasant aroma for you.
- Citrus crust only fresh - do not throw it away, but leave it overnight in the kitchen table.
- Soap - the best is economic or strawberry, or vinegar. Prepare the solution with warm water and wipe the kitchen set.
Use the proposed traps if it has wound up, and at the end of hostilities simply take preventive measures. With this approach, there is a high probability that the knowledge obtained from this article will never be useful to you.
