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ОльгаК, 21.11.2013 22:16

Help please mol.gifGive advice on what to do with the collection of insects!
My son from Thailand brought collections of insects framed under glass, very beautiful beetles, spiders, butterflies. The fact is that they smell very strong, literally all over the room, my mother says that this is the smell of formalin, and asks you to immediately throw out the entire collection.
Please tell me what insects are treated with? Should they have a smell? Can it be dangerous for the child?
Please do not delete my postmol.gif mol.gif mol.gif, because I have been looking all evening for a place to address this question and all hope for this forum.

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21.11.2013 22:25, Bad Den

Rather, not formalin, but naphthalene (from various pests that hunt to dry insects-naphthalene masks the smell of dry insects).
You can try to smear the seams of the crust with a sealant to seal (sorry for the tautology) the cracks, or somehow ventilate the box (put it in a room communicating with the street?)

21.11.2013 22:35, ОльгаК

Bed Den Thank you!!))) Precisely! It's the smell of mothballs!! Unfortunately, there is no glazed balcony, I will try to cover it with a colorless sealant. And in the corner of each collection there is a small box 1. 5x1. 5cm with a hole, maybe they put mothballs in it? Don't you know what they do? Should I open the boxes and take this box out?

21.11.2013 23:19, СергейС.С

Bed Den Thank you!!))) Precisely! It's the smell of mothballs!! Unfortunately, there is no glazed balcony, I will try to cover it with a colorless sealant. And in the corner of each collection there is a small box 1. 5x1. 5cm with a hole, maybe they put mothballs in it? Don't you know what they do? Should I open the boxes and take this box out?

Sometimes, when opening a box of material at customs, everything was covered with mothballs so that the insects themselves could not be seen.Just everything is removed and a tube with cotton wool inside(cotton wool is soaked in essential oil-thuja, pine or eucalyptus)is placed in this placeglued instead.Naphthali is a concerogen.

21.11.2013 23:56, Bad Den

And in the corner of each collection there is a small box 1. 5x1. 5cm with a hole, maybe they put mothballs in it?

Most likely yes, it is exactly there.

22.11.2013 9:27, Zunimassa

throw out the naphthalene from the box and ventilate the frames longer
, preferably in a warm place, the naphthalene will evaporate more actively.
instead of naphthalene, as already said, lavender oil or a moth plate.

This post was edited by Zunimassa - 22.11.2013 09: 28

22.11.2013 12:20, ОльгаК

Bed Den, Zunimassa, Sergey S. S smile.gifThank you very much for your help!!!)))

This post was edited by Olgak - 22.11.2013 12: 22

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