Ecology of life. Lifehak: mole in the kitchen is not only flying moths, but also their dolls, larvae and eggs. So, in order to bring the pest forever, it is necessary to fight with them comprehensively - to find and eliminate the hearth, clean the furniture / ceiling, throw away everything that has been infected and process potentially infected products.

Mole in the kitchen is not only flying moths, but also their dolls, larvae and eggs.

So, in order to bring the pest forever, it is necessary to fight with them comprehensively - to find and eliminate the hearth, clean the furniture / ceiling, throw away everything that has been infected and process potentially infected products.

Food moles are of different species.Most often in the kitchen in the urban apartment you can meet: a flour fire, a little less often - a cocoa fire (very similar to a wrapal mole) and a southern barn fire (the fight against it is harder than with others). How do they take even in the cleanest kitchen cabinets?

Tiny, almost invisible eggs fall into the kitchen in the packs of croup, cereals, gallets, dried fruits, flour, spices and other groceries. Then during the week, the larvae of food moths are hatched, which are subsequently pounded and turn into moths.

In this material you will find step-by-step instructions on how to get rid of food moths, what prevention measures to accept to avoid its re-appearance and how to save products, if they are sorry to throw out.

Step 1. We are looking for foci and infected products

Moli's eggs look like small white swelling grains, similar to the semolina. The larvae first have the kind of small whitish worms, and then they grow up to 1.27 cm and have black or brown heads. Another obvious sign of contamination of food - Cellites as in the photo below.

Oatmeal infected with mole

To get rid of food moths first need to be held:

1. Inspection of kitchen cabinets and products. Inspect all the supplies that are stored in the kitchen cabinets - you need to find not only the source, but also already infected with larvae and eggs.

Do not forget to check and non-unpacked grocery, because mole easily eats cardboard, foil and polyethylene.

Special attention is paid to the edges of the cans of cans - there may be a web moth.

Remember that not only grocery can be infected, but also animal feed, seeds for birds, bait for fishing, that is, almost everything is stored in the refrigerator.

2. Inspection of the ceiling. Ceiling, ceiling plinths, edges of wallpaper and the base of the chandelier. Mol loves to hide in dark clips and corners.

3. Inspection of the top of the cabinets. Here you can also see cocoons moths.

By the way, if you doubt whether there is a mole or, say, it turned out whether it turned out after stripping, then inspect the room at night - adult individuals will gather around a burning chandelier.

Step 2. We carry out a total sweep

1. Eliminate the source and products with explicit signs of infection. As soon as you find, what product has become a source of insect distribution, tightly wrap it into a plastic bag and immediately throw away, and bless it is better.

2. Spend thorough cleaning. Empty kitchen cabinets and remove the shelves, and then spending them and the inner walls of the cabinet, paying special attention to the corners and slots.

The vacuum cleaner (without the nozzle or with a small nozzle) will drag out the dying mole and will not give to poor eggs to stay in the closet. This method is very effective, so if you do not have a vacuum cleaner, it should be asked for friends. The main thing after the procedure throw out the bag or freeze it in the freezer for 3-4 days.

3. Wash all containers and banks. It can be done with acetic solution or economic soap. Tara in which infected products were located, it is necessary to freeze for 3-4 days or warm in the microwave for 5 minutes.

4. Let the ceiling. If you discovered moth settlements on the ceiling, ceiling plinths, the tops of the cabinets, near the chandelier, as well as under the edges of the woven wallpaper, then let's spend these places.

Step 3. Kill adult individuals and open traps

How to catch adult individuals who have already scattered in the corners of cabinets and kitchens? Male (by the way, innocuous, but fertilizing females) can be caught using a glue trap (photo below). The principle of its action is simple - a trap attracts males and "catches" the trap and "catches", and without male individuals, the moles multiply multiply, of course, will not be able. Thus, pheromon traps will help prevent the insect reap.

Adhesive trap

The females will have to kill traditional methods - a fly swatter or a rolled newspaper, as they fly badly and slowly, then it is not so difficult to do it.

Step 4. Processing potentially infected products

So, you have thrown a source product and products with explicit signs of infection, and what to do with the rest of the supplies that seem clean or were infected with little?

It is easier to throw them in the same way, but if you wish, potentially infected foods you can save the following two ways:

Previously asking and passing the corpse, flour or other product, hold it in the freezer or on the balcony (in winter) at least 3-4 days.

Holding out the product on the baking sheet, warm it in the oven at a temperature of 60 degrees for at least 40 minutes. Before heating it, of course, you need to be cleared.

Keep in mind that the first method of processing, albeit longer, but retains all vitamins and nutritional food properties.

Step 5. We carry out prevention and protect products

1. New or treated with cold / warm products (including animal feed) need to be suspended in glass, thick plastic or metal containers / cans with tightly closing covers. This will protect the supplies from the penetration of moth and prevents its escape outside the container. Recall that cardboard, paper, foil and cellophage packets are easily eaten by it.

How to store grocery products

2. In the fight against the mole in the kitchen, the people's recipe is useful - storage of products with natural repellents:

With a pair of layers of laurel sheet;

With husk peeled, but not cut garlic (there will be enough pairs of heads);

With orange crusts.

Bay leaf to protect flour from moth

3. On the shelves, you can also decompose something from the listed, or: Lavender twigs, birch leaves, geranium, wormwood, rosemary, economic soap or strong essential oils. For example, fir oil is suitable, which can be mixed with a cotton disk and leave it in the closet.

Remember that these folk remedies will scare adult mole, without giving her to postpone eggs in the products and on the shelves, but they do not work on the larvae. Moreover, if you suddenly put the packaging of infected cereals, then the larvae moths will not die in it, and butterfly, which will appear later, will no longer be afraid of the smell of lavender. That is why it is necessary to struggle with home pests.

And a little more about the prevention

The following tips will help you avoid re-appearing moth:

Try so that the products are not fired more than 2-4 months and, of course, do not store the supplies whose shelf life has come out.

Products that you rarely use, store in the refrigerator.

Buy dry foods in small quantities in order to have time to eat them during a couple of months.

Buy Groceries only from well-known manufacturers and, if possible, check the quality of goods in the store. For loyalty, freshly cereals, cereals, flour, nuts, dried fruits and other products freeze for 3-4 days (in dry).

Animal feed, for example, seeds for birds or, let's say, bait for fishing, keep not in the kitchen. Published

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