Pest control of insects collections

Interesting. We must try it!

It's not leatherworms that bother me, but ants (Monomorium pharaonum). I stopped them from trying to eat the insects by tracing out the compartments in the cabinet where the boxes are located with Masha-type crayons. Plus, the junction of the lid and bottom of the box. Chalk, until it has expired, works very well - the ant dies in a matter of minutes, and only after running along the line, immediately forgets where and why it ran.

Ahhh... Once upon a time, my collections at home in the apartment were attacked by small tetramoriums. Already, bitches, the path was trampled in several rows. I did something radical - I wiped the entire path with vinegar and filled in the nesting sites (there were holes in the concrete on the balcony where they crawled).

Please tell me who has experience. There is a thermal cabinet, if you try to fry the boxes in which the leatherworm started up in it. What is the optimal temperature and how long should the cabinet be kept at this temperature?

With valuable material, it is better not to get carried away with roasting. Deformity of the elytra, protrusion of fat, darkening, etc. - the most harmless thing that can happen. If you suddenly really want to, then I fried mass material (mattresses with quantitative records, banal types, etc.) at 110 degrees Celsius in several sets: 3-6 hours and three days. In general, it is recommended to freeze and fry in several stages - so it is more reliable for skin eaters. Still, it's better to freeze.

This post was edited by scarabee - 03/14/2007 15: 51

IMHO, it is better to freeze than fry or pickle. Those materials that I store at home, I periodically pass through a regular freezer (~ 1 day). If the enemy is detected, I also freeze the mattress or box. So do the imperialists, only they have better freezers.

Is kozheed so tenacious? 3-6 hours at 110 degrees. and within three days.

I put the mattresses in the oven for a couple of minutes and then everything is dead lying around. The boxes are more complicated - there is foam and it would have fused. To do this, I simply put the infected copy. and I warm it up separately. This is, in my opinion, the fastest, most convenient and reliable method.

I rarely encounter kozheeds in the collection. More often than not, I'm bothered by all sorts of small nonsense. There is a small change of 1 mm, sometimes you open the box and there are 1-3 pieces ran (who managed to crush), so if it's rough, they look like small termites. No one knows what kind of view, it's just interesting? They work slowly but efficiently.
So I looked at them under a microscope, and they have terrible jaws!!And there is also a super small thing somewhere 0.2 mm. They ate up my moth on the rasprovilka, I look in a month and the moth's wings only remained under the tracing paper, and in the basal part only the veins remained. Looked through a microscope, generally a trifle, but the collection eats. The first sign that these little things are eating (especially butterflies they love), so it's black small leftovers after meals, I can easily detect them because the boxes from under A4 are pasted with white paper and stand in an upright position, so everything falls down, and then I just sweep everything out with a brush for drawing and make a conclusion to fill more a box or not. Here I put ethane dichloride in small glass cones (5 mm in diameter and somewhere 4-5 cm in length). I put an elastic band in the form of a ringlet on the cone, (I cut out old cameras from under the balls, so you can cut threads and impose a bunch of rings)and I stick the pin through. The convenience of these cones: 1.) take up little space 2.) where I wanted to go there and put it in a free corner, but it is better to put it on top, dichloroethane vapors settle down. The effect of dichloroethane is clear, once I noticed serious damage in a box (40 by 50), put a flask of pills there and swelled 3 ml. After a couple of days, the skin-eating larva that was inside the insect was lying dead, i.e. the vapors even penetrated the insect at the site of damage, and the creation of evil writhing in pain and looking for a way out the torment came out, but even here the furry victim also did not find happiness. I've heard about the fact that dichloroethane is harmful to health, it evaporates very quickly. Therefore, I try to fill the boxes on the balcony, and the boxes themselves are stored in the cabinet and in the shelves, I have mostly A4, I fill 1-2 ml in the cones.

small creatures-hay eaters.
The easiest way to kill is by heat treatment. More precisely, a few minutes for a mattress with insects in a hot oven (but not too hot) is enough. If there are signs of eating a particular individual, then it can be placed separately on a piece of wood in the oven. In general, it works - then the corpses of hay eaters are lying around.

Trofim, dichloroethane is not just harmful, it is toxic. I would recommend something less vigorous, at least the same ethyl acetate.