Winter. Outside, the thermometer dropped below −25 ° C. No flies, mosquitoes and other annoying insects. And then the question arises, where in the apartment uninvited guests appear in the form of small, annoying midges?
And these are the very insects that appear in the kitchen, in flower pots, trash cans. If they could not fly from the street under such weather conditions, what caused their appearance in the apartment?
How do midges appear in the house
Small midges - this is a large family of flies, including several species and subspecies. These include fruit, earthen, domestic, onion, forest midges. These creatures are not the same, so do not identify them. Different species differ in their habitats, feeding habits, and reproduction rates.
Midges in the apartments are of 2 types:
- fruit flies - fruit;
- sciarides - soil.
Both are small. Life expectancy is 24 hours, but during this time they have time to multiply instantly. In such a short period, the midge goes through 3 stages of development: an egg, a small, voracious larva, and an adult.
But for this, the insects need a suitable nutrient medium: rotten fruit, wet soil, garbage.
In the apartment, annoying insects can appear at any time of the year. The favorite place of insects is fruits and berries. When buying a tasty exotic fruit or juicy berries in the store, we automatically bring in the midges.
If it gets into favorable conditions (high humidity, debris, fruits not hidden in the refrigerator), the midges will successfully go through 3 stages of development, and they will have to fight with them.
The blackflies can accidentally enter the house through the vents from their neighbors, through the open window, if fruit trees grow nearby. Once in the house, they find a habitat and breeding for themselves: clogged sewers, food debris from pets, trash can, berries, kefir, and overmoistened soil in pots with indoor plants.
Insects can appear in the bathroom if wet towels are not removed in time and water pipes are not blocked. Wet rags for washing the floor - the source of their development.
How to get rid of midges
Each mistress knows from her own experience that if you do not fight with the first midges that appear, you can wait for their numbers to grow to a local epidemic. But to prevent their reproduction is very simple: the main thing is to find out what is their source.
In the apartment
Using effective methods to control the midges, it is possible to significantly reduce the population of adults and not allow them to multiply. Consider the most popular methods.
- Carnation with orange. In an orange peel should wrap a couple of sticks of carnations and put a delicious "gift" in the place where there is a large accumulation of midges.
- Duct tape. The method is effective, especially if there are so many black flies that you do not know how to deal with them.
- Garlic with tobacco. The method is applied if the midges have settled in flower pots. First, on the surface of the soil need to decompose the cloves of garlic, cut along. After 2 hours, remove the garlic and put the tobacco, lightly sprinkle with earth.
- Vinegar with liquid soap. The smell attracts blackflies, and if they fall into a vessel with a solution, they are no longer able to get back.
Dealing with uninvited guests in the apartment is not so difficult, you will need to comply with a number of hygiene measures. It is necessary to monitor the cleanliness of the apartment, control the shelf life of food and avoid high humidity.
On the kitchen
Many are trying to wage a physical fight with small insects. However, this will not bring proper results, if you do not remove the nutrient medium. Do not rush to extremes and resort to the help of pesticides, you can find completely harmless ways to fight.
If you were absent for a couple of days in the house, and when you returned, you saw a whole swarm of flies, you will immediately need to arrange through-ventilation. This will get rid of most of the insects. The adhesive tape helps. By reducing the number of adults, it is possible to prevent their reproduction: there will be no laying of eggs - there will be no new colonies of flies.
If there are many black flies, you can turn on the vacuum cleaner and walk around them in the crowded places. After half of the midges get inside, you need to take out the bag to the street, so that the midges cannot enter the room again.
For the fight, you can use the same food. In the sink, you need to put a piece of the "podgulyavshego" fruit or berry, wait for insects to stick around him, turn on the water and wash them. In this way, you can get rid of a large number of annoying "neighbors."
If fruit trees grow under the windows, the midges will be 100% inside the house. It is necessary to seal the window seam, and install a fine mesh on the window.
The trap helps: you will need to put a “podgulyavshuyu” berry or fruit, pour water, cover the neck with plastic wrap and make a small hole so that the midges can penetrate into the jar. After some time, the sour smell will attract the black flies, and they will flock to the smell.
Now you can take the trap to the street or drain into the toilet. The trap does not work if you leave the neck open in the jar, so the midges can fly away freely.
Often, little hooligans get into our house with fruits that are bought on the market. Purchased goods need to be washed, dried and sent to the refrigerator for storage. At cold temperatures, the midges lose their ability to reproduce. Even if insects get into the house in a package with grapes, cold storage will not allow them to increase the number of individuals before a local epidemic.
In winter
Strangely enough, but in the winter, black flies often get into the apartment from their neighbors through air vents. To prevent the need to cover the ventilation fine mesh. Replace the fine mesh can kapron, but not with gauze.
The material must be securely fixed around the perimeter with a stapler, adhesive tape or glue, so that the midge cannot penetrate inside the room.
Midges are afraid of low temperatures, under their influence they become sterile. Therefore, in winter it is recommended to open the windows and arrange a good airing. The temperature in the apartment will then quickly return to normal, but the midges will no longer be able to reproduce the offspring.
How to eliminate blackflies in flower pots
In the flower pots, sciarides are planted - flower midges. To combat them, there are lots of ways, consider some of them.
- The first method is the most economical. You will need to take 4 matches per average flower pot. Each match needs to be stuck in the ground with the head and every day to remove them from the ground. When sulfur disappears on the matches, you will need to replace them with new ones. Matches cope with the midge in 4 shifts.
- The soil in each pot is recommended to shed a weak solution of potassium permanganate. In order not to burn the roots, the solution should not be very concentrated.
- For 1 liter of boiling water, 3 heads of crushed garlic are required. After infusing for 4 hours, you will need to spray the plant with the prepared solution and shed the soil for it. After the procedure, there will be a strong smell of garlic in the room.
- From garlic, you can not prepare the solution, just peel it, cut it lengthwise and put it on the surface of the soil with a cut down.
- It can be shed with water with household soap dissolved in it.
- The pencil "Masha", the insect repellent "Raptor" helps to fight the midges.
- In the flower pot, you can stick the peel of oranges.
If folk remedies did not help, you can use the purchase of funds "Basudin", "Thunder-2", "Fly-eater", breeding strictly in accordance with the instructions.
In orchids
To begin, you will need to figure out what still the midges settled in a pot with an orchid: fruit flies or sciarides - and only then pick up the means of struggle.
- Measures to deal with fruit flies. It is possible to cope with midges by national methods, without the use of toxic chemicals. You will need to remove the top layer of soil and replace it with a new one. Ensure that the land has time to dry between waterings. Now you need to take care of the cleanliness of the house: remove all rotted fruit or vegetables, food residues. To get rid of fruit flies, you need to deprive them of food, and they will disappear by themselves. You can hang sticky tape.
- Measures to combat stsiarida. As a preventive measure, it is recommended to use ready-made soils when planting orchids. Independently prepared soil is first watered and let it flow, and then sent to the freezer so that the soil is well frozen. Flower growers, mostly amateurs, use tea tea leaves as an additional dressing, an infusion of banana peel and water them with plants. This can not be done, because, decomposing in the ground, they become a breeding ground for the development of the larvae of the fungus mosquito. For the control of sciarides, the anti-insect drugs Raptor and Neodichlorvos are used.
Spray process the shelves, frames, window sills. To get rid of midges in the soil, you will need to use insecticides "Basudin", "Thunder-2".
For preventive and repellent purposes, it is recommended to put garlic cloves, dill sprigs, orange and lemon peels, lavender leaves in pots with flowers in advance.
All described methods of dealing with midges give a positive result. To get rid of annoying insects, you should not use chemical means, you can fight them with popular methods. It is worth knowing if you deprive the midges of the nutrient medium, they themselves will disappear.
