There are many methods of getting rid of moths.
Moreover, when inconspicuous gray butterflies accidentally find themselves in a wardrobe or in a kitchen cabinet, and woolen clothes begin to gap with noticeable bald spots, the inhabitants of the grandmother's ways remember much more often than about some kind of chemical preparations.
And it can be explained. After all, traditional tools are more affordable and cheaper and can always be in the apartment at hand.
The topic of today's article is how to get rid of the moth: folk remedies. Tell us what plants scare the mole with its smell, do essential oils help moths?
Features of the use of folk remedies for moth in the apartment
All known methods of disposal of pests differ among themselves depending on what type of moth you have to deal with: a wardrobe or a kitchen one.
But they all have the same quality: just scare away insects without destroying them. The only drawback of all these methods is their slow action.
Next, we will tell you more about how to get rid of the moth in the apartment of folk remedies?
Orange peels
Orange peels, as well as lemon and mandarin peels are an old folk way of getting rid of moths. Their strong smell scares adult butterflies.
Rules of application:
- Spread fresh citrus crusts around food.
- Drying and scent-losing crusts need to be replaced on time.
Laundry soap
Another folk, but the main thing - universal method, the main disadvantage of which is the unpleasant smell characteristic of soap.
Few people wear expensive and beautiful clothes if they smell like laundry soap.
But laundry soap discourages adults and very noticeably limits the movement of caterpillars. This product available at cost any buyer. It is especially convenient to use it to get rid of insects that have settled in storerooms and closets.
For high-quality use, place the pieces of fresh laundry soap inside kitchen furniture or place them in the pockets of the clothes you want to protect.
Lavender from moth
The most popular folk remedy is considered lavender. This plant has a strong and very pleasant smell. It does not expire for a long time. Lavender qualitatively scares away both caterpillars and adult butterflies.
At the same time dry flowers and plant essential oil are effective, which is a component of many industrial products used to get rid of insect pests.
Lay the leaves of the plant in porous packets around the apartment, place them in the wardrobe between the folded items. If we talk about the essential oil, it is placed on the shelves of cabinets directly in open vessels.
Clothes can be protected sprinkling it with lavender decoction. Only have to do it often.
Important! Do not sprinkle lavender and any other essential fluid on your clothes. The quality of this product is different. If there is at least a little palm or sunflower oil in the composition of the oil, then things will remain on the things that are difficult or impossible to remove.
Mint
Like lavender, this plant has a strong smell.
It is used in a similar way: dried leaves are laid out in small sachets and placed in a place where a large accumulation of pests should be observed.
From time to time it is recommended to check if the bag is not exhausted. If this happens, replace it with another, with more fresh dried leaves. To enhance efficiency, You can place them in wardrobe in the pockets of jackets, coats, fur coats and jackets.
Caucasian daisy
Another effective pest-repelling method is Caucasian chamomile powder. Him scatter on the floor of the apartment every one and a half meters.
Geranium
The struggle with the small gray butterflies that have settled in the house is not always active and involves the use of specially prepared means for this. There are passive ways. Often Enough to put on the window sill room flower like the usual geranium.
The smell of this plant can not tolerate many insects. If the apartment is large, get a few bushes. Put one pot in each of the rooms. Geranium acts equally effectively against both the kitchen and the clothes moth.
Horse chestnut
It turns out that insect pests are well protected chestnut. Its seeds should be collected in late autumn.
After drying in the oven (raw chestnuts grow moldy quickly), place them on the shelves in the cabinets. Sachets are not needed here.
Chestnut has several advantages:
- Fruits gather easily and just as easily laid out;
- Effectively and do not have a strong flavor;
- The fruits are quite large in size, therefore they are not capable of littering the apartment.
Vinegar and garlic
Vinegar and garlic have a not very pleasant smell. Although it is thanks to him that they are considered a good means of fighting insects. Garlic is best kept in the kitchen, inside the cabinets or in the pantry. next to other foods as well vinegar is recommended to be added to the water when washing the floor in the apartment.
The butterfly does not tolerate spicy plants, among them - thyme, rosemary and cloves. They can be bagged, combined with each other, or used each separately. Such kits are distributed in the apartment and for a long period scare away the pests from the premises.
Sweet Tobacco
Tobacco is another effective folk method against gray butterflies. Scented tobacco is usually used as a houseplant, and as for smoking, it is better to use it in the form of small dry leaves, as in our usual cigarettes.
Put the usual tobacco into the bags and place inside the pieces of furniture. Do not forget to periodically air the wardrobe.
Odorous herbs
Insects scare away bunches of wild-growing or cultivated fragrant herbs. Among them the most effective means are the following:
- Sagebrush;
- Tansy;
- Chamomile;
- Valerian;
- Marigold;
- Carnation
Other popular methods and means to scare off annoying pests:
- Camphor. Dampen her with tampons and place them in places where butterflies flock.
- The combination of lemon and cloves. The buds of the spicy plant are stuck in half a lemon and hung on a strong thread above the shelves with things.
- Slices of twigs and cedar wood also not tolerated by insects. Spread them in wardrobe, where the fur coats hang. It is possible to use for this purpose and oil from cedar needles.
- Use the same method black pepper (peas).
- The townsfolk claim that gray butterflies are sometimes frightening the smell of fresh newspapers. But experts consider this method rather doubtful.
Do not forget regularly ventilate the apartment, carry out a constant cleaning in it with the use of disinfectants. The moth is afraid of low and high temperatures. So washing in hot water, roasting clothes in the open sun or airing in the frosty air make it possible to get rid of females, eggs of pests or their larvae.
By the way, the larvae and eggs on the clothes are attached very weakly, because they fall to the floor from the least shaking. For this reason, constantly worn items are rarely spoiled. Those who hang in wardrobe for a long time and are waiting in the wings suffer more.
Essential oils
Essential liquids are an excellent and very effective folk remedy for repelling pests.
In addition to the lavender composition is actively used. fir, eucalyptus, rosemary oil, and also patchouli, lemongrass and citronella oil.
Mode of application:
- Rinse the floor with water, after adding a few drops of ethereal liquid to it;
- Oil wipe the shelves and surfaces where moth clumps may be located;
- Spread swabs moistened with liquid;
- Sprinkle closets and rooms;
- Put in open wardrobes, cupboards and nightstands open bottles with oils against pests.
Naphthalene
Perhaps the most famous and most effective folk remedy for moth is naphthalene.
IMPORTANT! But for residential buildings today it is not recommended because its use is unsafe for human health.
But naphthalene is still popular and helps to get rid of butterflies and insect larvae, which does not tolerate its pungent smell. Bags with naphthalene balls are usually laid out between the piles of clothes along the shelves of wardrobe.
Naphthalene is not able to deal with the food moth (more about the fight against the kitchen moth), only with the wardrobe, because food actively absorbs odors. Therefore, it would be unwise to expose food to spoilage. But naphthalene, there are many modern substitutes against pests that are equally effective.
To help folk remedies for moth in the house are always ready to come modern chemical compounds, which are freely sold in specialized stores.
But the old grandmother's ways should not be neglected, which, as practice shows, over the years do not lose their effectiveness and can be fully used when it is really necessary.
So, we told how to fight moths with folk remedies, described flowers and plants that repel pests, and also gave tips on how to bring moths into the kitchen with folk remedies?
