A question from an Internet user.
And when you live in the forest where thousands of box trees are attacked and there are millions of butterflies flying even during the day and entering my house by the thousands?.... How can I stop them from entering the house? That's something!!! Or what product can I use in the house without risk to humans. I rent a cottage that has the same problems! What precautions can I also take as a preventative measure?Alfred Hitchcock's Last Film: The Beetles
It is clear that the problem is vast and that many box trees will be destroyed by the moth caterpillars. All the more reason to protect yours. One of the natural phenomena that will reduce the moth population will be the scarcity of box trees. Hold on, protect those around you, they are precious for the conservation of the species.
If you have a lot of boxwood to treat, I recommend that you equip yourself with a battery-powered electric sprayer. This equipment allows you to remain very mobile and to treat a large number of shrubs quickly and efficiently.
The two products for preventive and curative treatment are Solabiol Box Tree Moth Bacillus Thuringiensis and BSI fertilizers to strengthen box trees and hedges. The first kills box tree moth caterpillars without harming bees and pollinators in general, the second strengthens box trees and makes them more resistant.
The other action to be taken is the capture of butterflies with pheromone traps that I will put online on the site soon.
To complete this fight, you can manually remove the caterpillars (they are not stinging) and drown them in a bucket of water.
For more information on controlling box tree moths, you may be interested in this article: " How to get rid of box tree moths without poisoning the bees "
To treat the interior of the house , you can also use pheromone traps, they do not contain any chemicals and are therefore perfectly non-toxic.
As with all other cold-blooded insects in the home , I recommend products containing pyrethroids. To treat surfaces (walls, floors, fabrics, etc.) spray BSI STOP Insects . To treat the volume of a room and immediately destroy all flying insects, you can use Kapo anti-flying insects in a 500 ml aerosol.
By each acting in his own way, we will get there.
