The beetle grinder in the house is a real disaster. He is popularly called a "pretender" and not by chance. Sensing danger, he displays his acting skills and falls dead. Insects of small size cause irreparable damage to wood. How to get rid of the grinder beetle, read the article.
How do insects appear in the house?
With the onset of the warm period, the female begins to lay eggs in large numbers in holes gnawed in advance. A week later, larvae appear from them, which feed immediately. They begin to gnaw holes in the wood. It is the larvae that are most dangerous to humans, as they cause great harm to property. Their life activity lasts one to three years.
In the summer, development becomes active. It stops in winter. In a room where temperature differences are insignificant, the development of larvae occurs all year round. After that, pupae are obtained from them, and then - adult beetles, the main purpose of which is reproduction.
The larvae gnaw throughthe tree is almost its entire thickness, the beetles have to gnaw the remains and go outside. The holes are very small in diameter, reaching several millimeters. But since there are a lot of beetles, the entire surface of objects or structures made of wood is covered with holes, as for the inside, it remains hollow.
Signs for detecting insects
There are many winding passages on the surface of a tree affected by beetles and inside it. In addition, the life process of insects is accompanied by the release of a powder that has a yellow or brown color. If an unknown insect is found during the inspection of buildings and wooden objects, this is a reason to suspect the appearance of grinder beetles that have settled on the windowsill or under the threshold.
If signs of the presence of parasites are found, you need to act immediately before they have eaten everything in the house. If a wooden building that has no value in the economy is damaged, it must be burned. If this is not possible, the use of special insecticides will help get rid of insects.
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To get rid of the grinder beetle in the apartment, you need to know what type it belongs to in order to choose an effective remedy to deal with it. These insects are:
- Bread grinders cause great harm to a person, it is not for nothing that they are popularly called omnivores. Beetle larvae are a real disaster for food warehouses. They feedpasta, sugar, cereals, medicines, they can even eat deadly poison and stay alive.
- Wood - these grinders often live in the forest. Reproduction of larvae occurs in the wood of plants, and dry and old. Houses are rare, but even if wound up, the walls and furniture remain unspoiled. This type of grinders is called "forest orderlies" and is not considered a pest.
- Furniture - they are considered the most dangerous. The beetle lays its larvae, which develop in a dead tree, on any surface. The destructive actions of grinders turn any object into dust.
- Brownies - they prefer to settle outside the house. They hibernate during the cold season.
How to get rid of the grinder bug in the house?
Insect control is carried out in various ways. Most often, they begin to conduct it when the beetles have managed to breed and settle in large areas in the house. People think that chemicals can do it better. But don't rush. You need to try to use folk remedies for grinder beetles, which also turn out to be detrimental to insects. If all else fails, then use chemicals. But you should always remember that without a reason, insects will not start in furniture. Dampness can attract them. Therefore, in order to preserve wooden furniture and other items made of it, the room must always be dry and ventilated. Examples of some folk remedies:
- Fluoride or silicofluoride sodium, the concentration of whichdoes not exceed 2.5%, dissolve in water. With the resulting solution, the surfaces damaged by beetles are treated with a spray gun, roller or brush.
- Using hot drying oil gives a good result in the fight against beetles. But since the surface can change its appearance, this method is used when it does not matter, the durability of objects and their integrity are more important.
- A mixture is being prepared, which includes resin, naphthalene, black carbolic acid. All components are taken in the same proportion, mixed, wooden surfaces are brushed.
- Another insecticide: kerosene, motor oil or linseed oil. Wooden surfaces are lubricated with this solution.
Vaseline
Using this substance is the easiest way, but the longest. To do this, Vaseline is drawn into a pipette and injected into each hole made by the beetles. Then all the holes are filled with molten wax, if it is not there - with paraffin. The procedure is repeated twice a month for such a time until the grinder beetle and traces of its vital activity completely disappear. This method is more appropriate to use in a residential area, as it is safe for human he alth.
Turpentine with kerosene
The procedure is carried out using a brush, with which the composition is applied to damaged surfaces. But first you need to cook it. To do this, three parts of turpentine and one part of kerosene are taken, everything is thoroughly mixed. You can add a little naphthalene to the composition, but itmust be dissolved in advance with gasoline.
Temperature in the fight against the grinder
If a grinder beetle is wound up in the house, you can get rid of it with high temperature. For this, any equipment is suitable, for example, a hair dryer, with which you can heat the air up to 60 ° C. But this temperature is detrimental to adults. The larvae die at low temperatures, two degrees or more below zero. If you create such conditions in the house, you can get rid of the larvae.
Table s alt
The grinder beetle can be completely destroyed with the help of a safe component - ordinary s alt, which is always available in the house. The method is very effective, despite its simplicity, especially if the beetles have wound up and managed to breed in the walls and furniture. This environment for insects is beneficial, since precipitation does not fall on either one or the other. You need to prepare a saline solution, but thick, like dough for pancakes, and apply it with a brush, brush, cloth to all surfaces that the beetles have damaged.
How to get rid of the bread grinder?
If this type of beetle appeared in the house, all the cereals available on the farm should immediately be sieved through a sieve, and then heated in an oven at a temperature of 110 ° C. Flour cannot be processed in this way. Peas are poured with s alt water, all the bugs from this will float up, after which the product should be dried. An easier way to get rid of insects of this species is to place food in the freezer for a period of a day. During this time, all beetles and their larvaewill die.
Insecticides against grinders
If the beetles "hunt" in the house for a long time, it will be difficult and long to get rid of them with folk remedies. People resort to the help of proven insecticides. Liquid preparations are more effective, it is more convenient to apply them to the surface with a spray gun. So they will penetrate into the most inaccessible places, hitting the beetles, some of which die immediately, the rest will urgently leave their shelter and crawl out. But this procedure must be done when all the residents of the house leave it, since insecticides are harmful to human he alth and pets.
Drug treatment will be successful if done carefully. It happens that it is difficult to penetrate into some place in order to make processing there, which means that you need to drill a hole there. Once the bugs have been eliminated, seal it with wax or glue with shavings designed specifically for wood. When grinder beetles appear in a wooden house, the most effective and well-known remedies against them are:
- "Tree Beetle".
- Anti-Beetle.
- Belinka Belocide.
- Empire 20.
The action of the listed drugs is long-lasting. They soak into the tree, destroying insects that will not appear again. But before using them, you should read the instructions. Important to know: the drug with a mark on its packaging about the admissibility of use for combating flying insects will benefit.
You can use antiseptics, for example "Mark-4". The effect is good if you use the product as soon as the beetleswound up in the house and did not have time to severely damage the wooden surfaces. All holes are processed with liquid, if it doesn’t help, then completely the surface.
Fumigation - what is it, when and why is it carried out?
This is a beetle control, but using special purpose aerosols or smoke that releases fumigants, which are more often used aluminum, as well as magnesium phosphide. Before the procedure, people and pets must leave the premises. Everything in the house, starting with food, is carefully covered. Windows in all rooms and doors are closed. If there are ventilation hatches, they should also be clogged. The smoking out of insects continues for several weeks. After that, wet cleaning is done throughout the house, soda ash is added to the water.
This is interesting
Beetle got the name "grinder" because of the peculiar sound, similar to the ticking of a clock. The fact is that he has a special shield on his chest. When an insect moves along a passage gnawed in wood, it hits its walls with its device, making a sound. This happens during reproduction. So the male attracts the female for further mating.
For a long time, when the insect was not sufficiently studied, people considered the appearance of such sounds in the house as a harbinger of the death of its inhabitants. This, in fact, was true, because then there were no means that could be used in the fight against the grinder. When the beetles breed, they will undermine all the woodenstructures and buildings will collapse, and people will remain under the ruins. In some states, the sound made by beetles is called the “death clock”, and when military operations are carried out, soldiers think that an explosive mechanism is working somewhere and quickly leave the place of deployment.
Unusual, but true: the grinder beetle (photo presented for viewing), it turns out, eats not only wood. He is very picky about food. Its larvae destroy bread, tobacco products, cereals, dry plaster, wallpaper paste, medicines, but they feel good, grow and develop well.
