Today I want to give you science popularization of this kind of bug it will eat clothes. Yes, I guess everyone guessed it, it is a clothing moth. As the name suggests, cloth moths eat clothes; but their real goal is not the clothes themselves, but the materials that make up certain pieces of clothing — wool, silk, feathers, cotton, etc. Museum specimens and dried food scraps such as biscuits are also on the moth's menu. They mainly eat animal and plant remains, but we humans happen to use some of the remains to make clothes. Cloth moths are timid and afraid of light, and the dark wardrobe unexpectedly provides them with an ideal place to live. However, for clothes made of synthetic materials such as nylon, the moth does not care to touch it - unless it is mixed with natural materials such as wool, dirty clothes, fabrics stained by human skin grease, carpets, etc., which are the favorite shelters of the moth.
Therefore, if you want to prevent clothing moths, it is a good way to keep your clothes clean, and encapsulating your clothes can also prevent the invasion of clothing moths. Mothballs can play a role in repelling, but generally do not kill moths that are already living in the closet. Clothing that has been infected with clothing moths can be killed by heating drying, freezing, carbon dioxide fumigation, etc. Although it is easy to handle a single piece of clothing, if there are many clothes or even carpets in the house, it is difficult to catch the existing clothes moths and insects... How can we fundamentally avoid the harassment of the cloth moth? Wear chemical fiber.
The larvae are small brown caterpillars, usually hidden in silky bags or meshes (called tube nests), and a spindle-shaped silk bag with a cement sticky to the wall contains a dark brown head larvae. Adults are pale yellow moths that are afraid of light. If you press it to death, it will emit an unpleasant odor. The larvae spit silk into a cocoon and store wool, upholstered furniture, fur, carpets, blankets, fishmeal, chemical wool, cotton-blended fabrics for the larvae to feed on. The larvae are mostly found in clothing storage rooms and in the seams of upholstered furniture. The clothing moth is very weak and flies not far, limiting its range of motion. He is particularly fond of textiles, which are stained with food or other contamination, and can also be seen in the collar or folding of clothes. (Cotton clothing is less susceptible)
When the wardrobe is empty, spray the wardrobe with Taosson and the like. After treatment, put the clothes back, the wardrobe should be closed tightly, put some mothballs (naphthalene pills) on the upper layer (put in the required amount according to the instructions), remember not to put in the clothes that are stained with mud, because the smell of sweat is more likely to attract clothing moths. Because the larvae are small and do not bite humans, the clothing moth is not easy to detect in the early stages, and the male adult moth will be affected by female moth sex pheromones and tend to mate with the female moth. Using this method, female moth sex pheromones can be artificially synthesized, and the male moth can be captured with sticky moth paper to achieve the purpose of timely discovery of the harm of the clothing moth, and the probability of fertilization of the female moth can also be reduced to reduce the overall density of the clothing moth.
The museum's (classic) collection should be inspected first when entering the collection, and when there is insect pest, it should be treated first, and the fumigation treatment should be checked regularly; and the facilities with environmental control should be kept low, low humidity and clean. Clothing fish and clothing moths do not bite humans or infectious pathogens, easy to be ignored, after the occurrence of treatment is difficult to remove completely, in the usual can clean the environment, newspapers are regularly collected and sorted out without accumulation, sent to the resource recovery office for centralized processing. When changing seasons, clothes must be washed and dried before being put in a clean wardrobe to reduce the occurrence of pests.