Can anyone tell me what I should do to get the larva of moths and carpet beetles out of my furniture?
I have yet to find an exterminating company in Philadelphia that would fumigate my furniture for moths or if this will even help? I have an old row home in town and I have been fighting moths and carpet beetles all year. I recently had to throw out all of my belongings and clothes only to realize that the moths have gotten into all of my expensive furniture ( which I could never afford to replace) and my bed. I use terminix, but they only fumigate comercial properties and keep telling me I don't have moths??? I also found they have spread to my car and office or visa versa. How can I stop this? I am a cleaning fenatic, so I don't know what I am doing wrong to be so infested. Even my dry cleaning comes back with active moth stuff on it. Any help would be appreciated.
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CONTROLLING EXISTING INFESTATIONS
When infestations of clothes moths or carpet beetles are encountered, a rather extensive program of insecticide applications will usually be necessary after appropriate sanitation has been implemented. Spray insecticides such as Suspend, Demand, Demon WP, Tempo and various non-residual materials such as CB80 are recommended for spot treatment or more general applications, as necessary. Residual sprays are generally applied with a hand sprayer, using a fine fan-spray nozzle.
Critical areas of infestation, usually identified during the inspection process, should receive special attention. In carpets, this would be around baseboard areas and under furniture. In furniture, this would be around seams, buttons, other cracks and crevices and padding areas.
All insecticides should be applied as a rather fine wet spray, directly to material being treated. Applications to upholstery fabrics should be made lightly, moving rapidly while spraying. Do not soak the fabric, because this will frequently result in staining not caused by the pesticide but caused by the water.
When treating carpets, be careful to prevent staining or soiling. If possible, the carpet should be cleaned before insecticide treatment. Be very careful not to soil the treated carpet with dirt from shoes or other sources, and try not to walk on treated areas until after they have thoroughly dried.
Whenever possible, it will be best to remove all furniture from a room which is to be treated. This may not be possible due to the size and weight of the furniture involved, or lack of space to put it elsewhere. Furniture can be moved and the carpeting under it treated, after which it can be replaced in its original location. When placing furniture on treated carpet, be sure to place some kind of temporary pad under the casters or skids on the bottom, as well as entirely underneath any other wood or metal articles which may touch the carpet. Failure to do this may result in the formation of rust marks on the carpet from metal parts, or stain marks from the wooden portions of furniture. Both types of stain are almost impossible to remove and can result in costly damage claims. Corrugated cardboard, cut into strips or squares, makes good padding for this purpose, as do folded paper towels, or small paper plates can also be used. The pads should not be removed until the carpet is thoroughly dry, usually after 2 or 3 days.
Regardless of the insecticide being used, be sure to keep small children and pets away from treated furniture and carpeting until they are thoroughly dry. These chemicals may be hazardous while they are wet. Check the insecticide product label for any other caution statements which may apply to this use.
These residual chemicals are all removed to some extent by subsequent washing, vacuuming and dry cleaning. The insecticide manufacturer’s recommendations about length of control and re-treatment intervals should always be observed.
If furniture is infested, it may be necessary to open cushions or to remove the covering from the bottom of sofas or chairs, so the padding will be exposed. Special attention should be given to the padding inside upholstered furniture, which may be composed of feathers or horsehair (especially in antique furniture) and is susceptible to insect damage. Exposed padding can then be treated with sprays which will not harm the padding, or it can be thoroughly dusted with a suitable dust such as Drione Dust. Dust applications are generally preferred for this situation, because there will be no drying time required and dusts usually give long residual control. Dusts should not be used where subsequent contact with skin or clothing can be expected, so exposed upholstery surfaces or carpeted areas on which people or pets will sit should not be dusted. When infestations are not heavy, non-residual or contact spray applications such as Demon WP will kill both exposed adults and larvae. These sprays should be applied closely to cracks and crevices with as much force as possible to drive the spray in deeply. An aerosol spray such as CB80 is frequently effective in closets. With all such applications, care must be exercised to avoid staining of clothes, walls, or furniture.
Many professional pest companies prefer to apply a residual insecticide of Demon WP to all of the appropriate areas, and then follow up with an aerosol application of a non-residual insecticide such as CB80 to assure complete control of adult or larval stages which may not be directly in the areas treated with the residual material. This dual application approach is especially appropriate when damage is extensive and widespread when many active adult insects have been seen in widely scattered areas of the premises; or during seasons when egg-laying is occurring in the area.
Recommended Products:
Indoors – Liquid sprays such as Suspend, Demand, Demon WP, Tempo to kill carpet beetle larvae and adults. All clothing made of natural animal fibers such as wool, cashmere, etc. must be carefully inspected for damaging larvae or dry cleaned since dry cleaning solutions will kill immature larvae. Wrapping inspected or cleaned clothes in plastic will help prevent infestation but is not a cure all.
Moth Guard can be used as an effective storage control material. Mothproofing services provided by some Drycleaners can also aid in control.
Outdoors – Liquid spray applications to flowers or shrubs, such as Suspend, Demand, Demon WP, Tempo.
Application Dont’s: Foggers will not work. Closets lined with cedar panels are of little or no use in carpet beetle control.
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To take care of furniture appropriately, one should not only concentrate on vacuuming the floor for long strenuous hours but should also concentrate on the furniture. The first step towards successful upholstery leather sofa cleaning is removing loose cushions; this will ensure that a thorough job is done because one is able to clean all pieces of furniture easily and all at once.
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