Pheromone trap for clothes moths "Magnet garderobe"

Pheromone trap for clothes moths "Magnet garderobe".
Effective against the worst enemy of clothing - clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella). The trap powerfully attracts butterflies. Once they land on the surface, they stick and die, which helps prevent the appearance of caterpillars that feed on clothing fabric.
Application: remove the protective sheet, fold the house along the indicated fold lines and place the trap where clothes moths are most likely to appear: cabinets, wardrobes, mezzanines, etc.
Place traps when you notice the first flying butterflies. Recommended number of traps: 1-2 pcs. for one room. To achieve maximum effect, it is recommended to change them every 2 months. Traps should be changed more often if they become heavily clogged with captured moths or dust.
Store in a dry and cool place, out of the reach of children.
Empty packaging and remaining product can be disposed of as household waste.
Ingredients: cardboard, sticky substance.
Shelf-life Unlimited.
Packing: 1 pc.


Tineola bisselliella.

Tineola bisselliella.

* Clothes and furniture moths have long been “popular” for their vital activity: they spoil clothes, fur and wool products, furniture upholstery and carpets...
At the same time, the furniture moth prefers fur, furs and wool, and the clothes moth prefers mainly cotton products.
In nature, both species are pronounced keratophages, that is, they feed on the hair and feathers of animals, and in an apartment, they can easily switch from one diet to another.
In the past, both of these types of indoor moths were called collectively - “clothes moths”, and even today this habit has been preserved among ordinary consumers, although the butterflies themselves are quite easily distinguished from each other. Therefore, in the future in text, when describing the general features of biology, both species will be called clothes moths, and if clarification is required, this will be discussed separately.
Both types of moths are quite similar to each other. Adult butterflies are small - they reach 5-9 mm in length with folded wings and have an inconspicuous straw-yellow colour.
Clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) - almost always light yellow. It is difficult to discern the differences between these species with the naked eye.
The furniture moth (Tineola furciferella) can be somewhat darker and has slight darkening at the base of the wings.
Furniture moths are not easy to distinguish from clothes moths. In the air, the furniture moth looks like a small moth that is not the most skilled in flight, and only males fly in both furniture and clothes moths. Females have wings, but they do not use them.
But the most important pest is not the moth. The immediate destroyer of clothing and furniture upholstery are clothes moth larvae - inconspicuous small caterpillars that carefully and quite quickly gnaw holes in sweaters, paths on fur coats and bald patches on carpets. 
Moth larva and eggs: how and where to find them.
So, it is the moth larva that feeds on our clothes. From wool and cotton, the caterpillar is able to extract the minimum nutrients that are there, and for this it has all the necessary devices: fairly strong and long mandibles - two large projections that act as scissors for cutting fabric fibres and fur hairs. Each of them has several teeth that increase the gnawing capabilities of the caterpillar. Powerful jaw muscles (almost the entire head), thanks to which the caterpillar can develop sufficient pressure to gnaw on matter. Thanks to their well-developed oral apparatus, the larvae of furniture and clothes moths actively eat fabric fibres. Huge, compared to the size of the body, stomach and intestines, in which large amounts of food can accumulate. At the same time, the larvae of furniture moths are clearly distinguished from the larvae of clothes moths. The larva of a clothes moth can build a simple small case from its own secretions and food debris, while the caterpillar of a furniture moth builds a clearly visible and durable corridor along its entire route of movement, visible to the naked eye.
It retains this whitish-yellow colour throughout its entire development: The clothes moth larva weaves a cocoon from its own secretions and fibres of damaged tissue.
House moth caterpillars are quite inactive. Only after hatching from the eggs, they spread to short distances from each other, but after they begin to feed fully, they move very little.
If the food is quite suitable for the larvae of house moths (contains little or no synthetics), then they grow quickly, and in 18-20 days they manage to molt 12-13 times, after which they pupate. If the caterpillars have to eat low-nutrient food (for example, with a high content of indigestible synthetic fibres), then in most cases development is delayed up to 1-2, and sometimes up to 6 months.

* Furniture moths are distinguished by their striking golden colour. The head is yellow. The bases of the upper wings are dark red. The species was formed not only due to the way of life, but also due to the special structure of the body: the head is equipped with peculiar labial tentacles.
Furniture moths eat furniture, starting with the fluffy stuffing. And only when approaching pupation, the larvae climb to the surface of the furniture, where they continue to destroy the material. Interestingly, at the same time they move according to the pattern on the fabric.
Pupation occurs, as a rule, on the lower surface of armchairs, sofas or chairs. If you look there some time after the home has been infested, you can stumble upon large nests filled with light-coloured pupae.
In the cold season, the larval stage lasts up to six months, but in the summer this process takes only a couple of months. Pupation begins at the end of winter. Departure occurs during all three spring months. Repeated flight occurs in the second and third months of summer.

Tineola furciferella.

Tineola bisselliella eggs.

Note: the development of house moth larvae slows down even if the air temperature in the place where they are present decreases. At the same time, the caterpillars themselves become smaller, and when certain temperatures are reached, they hide in cocoons and stop feeding. The eggs of indoor moth species are white or whitish-yellow, small and do not exceed 0.5 mm in length. The female lays them in small groups of 50-80 pieces directly on clothing or other fabric, which the larvae will subsequently feed on.