Small beetles in the apartment

Small beetles - causes and preventive measures against it

If you are small Beetle in the home that keep recurring, you should first look out for the causes in order to avoid a plague. Measures that prevent animals from entering can also be very effective.

• Around bees, wasps, Mosquitoes, but also to make it more difficult for other insects such as small bugs in the apartment to penetrate the premises You can use insect screens at these prominent points on the windows or, for example, doors to the balcony or terrace attach. You can get these in drugstores, hardware stores and you can purchase different protective grids on the Internet. Only tiny animals make it through the tight mesh, so that a large proportion of beetles are already prevented from entering.
• They should, as many small insects are attracted by open foods and improperly sealed supplies use Tupperware jars, jars with screw caps and the like to keep these foods airtight are.
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• This also applies to cereal products such as bread, rolls, cornflakes, etc., because the bread beetle, which is often found in apartments, becomes open through these It is attracted to food sources and also leaves eggs in the canned food, so that the subsequent brood can feed themselves directly and even more small beetles develop. You can recognize the beetles by their brown appearance at a size of about 3 mm and that they have wings and that the animals stay near the supplies and crawl around. You should quickly dispose of all affected supplies, they are inedible. Always examine opened and opened packaging. In this way you can also find other small beetles, namely the flour beetle as a common representative in the kitchen and in pantries, avoid.

Free the apartment from the insects

Provided that you have identified the causes of the spread of small bugs in your home and your supplies controlled, you should take effective action against the animals that are already in the premises stop.

• You should rid all affected areas of small bugs, this can sometimes be done by vacuuming all carpets necessary, because the carpet beetle, for example, likes to leave its eggs in textiles, so that these Hatch. You should also vacuum and clean cleared pantries and chambers in order to collect all eggs and dead beetles.
• You can use adhesive strips and pheromone traps from specialist retailers or the Internet, these give off typical Smellsthat attract the sometimes flying beetles so that they stick to the adhesive surface and thus die.
• In addition to the pheromone traps, you can also vaporize essential oils in the affected premises. Eucalyptus oil, tea tree oil, lavender oil, and peppermint oil can mask other natural kitchen odors so that the beetles can no longer locate food sources. With an aroma lamp you can evaporate a few drops and keep all kinds of insects out of the apartment.

It is important in combating the insects the combination of preventive and effective countermeasures so that you can find a remedy very quickly with just a few resources.