All fabrics need to be protected against dust, mildew and bugs, especially clothing moths and carpet beetles. with these pests is that they can do considerable damage before you even know that they are there! If you store your garments with care this year you will be able to enjoy them for many years to come. This three step program will ensure that your clothing emerges in perfect condition every season If you have never had a problem with pests, you should be safe using the cedar products with your freshly cleaned garments. that all garments are cleaned before enclosing and adding cedar. Otherwise, moths could still crawl over from a soiled item and eat a hole in a newly cleaned item. The amount needed depends upon a number of variables.If an insect crawled in and laid eggs during the time they were in your regular closet, putting them in a cedar closet won't do any good; in fact, it could infest your entire cedar
A cedar closet will repel adult moths from entering that space to lay eggs but it has no effect on eggs or larvae that areCedar won't prevent moths from eating their way through a number of items in the cedar closet. So unless you can clean, enclose and repel all your clothes together, you might be better off using moth-balls to be sure.Both moths and carpet beetles are looking for grease or foodThey will eat holes in nylon and other synthetic fabrics just to get at stains. You might use moth-balls in a closet for two weeks to kill any insects or larvae then replace it with cedar products. killed the pests you need only repel new ones to be safe. Rubbermaid makes plastic containers that are great to storeYou can also get Sterlite containers that lock atOtherwise I recommend cedar closets built to repel all the bugs that can ruin your clothes. The following method used on mohair, wool, and cotton, will produce a soft and silky sweater or throw:
Hand wash, using 1/4 cup of soda to 2 gallons of cool water. soak for 30 minutes. Dry to damp and air fluff for All fabrics need to be protected against dust, mildew and bugs, especially bed bugs, clothing moths and carpet beetles How to get rid of bedbugs Bedbugs are creepy and you want them gone NOW. This 5 minute video gives you the steps to followThis is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment. AlertWarning: Bedbugs on the TTC are a thing. Please be aware of your surroundings. (self.toronto)submitted by Throwaway account and preface: I live in a detached house in a middle income neighbourhood in Scarborough, so I'm at a low risk of infestation because they tend to favour high density dwellings. That said, no one is safe from them short of living in Vault 111 or in a pressurized bubble. I have had a small infestation before. This was roughly 3 or 4 years ago and I've been terrified of these fucking things since. Last night I was coming home from a friend's house on the 190 Rocket from Scarborough Town Centre.
It's a fairly busy route, so each seat is taken and everyone is packed together. A man sits down uncomfortably close to me. He seems to be developmentally disabled and is also very close to the other passenger in this row of seats. It wouldn't be the first time someone is jam packed in a TTC bus, especially in the winter, so I think nothing of it. Pharmacy Avenue comes up. He gets up and exits. In between fiddling with my phone I notice something on the right side of my chest on my jacket - a bug. But this isn't any bug: this is a red, hungry-looking bed bug. I'd recognize them anywhere. You get them once, you never forget 'em. Without thinking I flick it away. I know what I saw. Like I said in the intro, I had these things a few years ago and they required a $500 specialist exterminator to get rid of. My anxiety sparks up right away after the nightmare I had before. As soon as I exit the bus I hit up the nearest bathroom and search every inch of my clothing. I strip from my jacket, my scarf, my sweater and even my t-shirt in the stall.
I realize I sound crazy to those in the bathroom; shaking my clothing fiendishly, but I just think back to the first time around. 20 minutes pass and nothing else seems to be on my clothing. I cross my fucking fingers that it was just the one bug. I just got home now and stripped to my boxers immediately. All my clothes are outside hanging over top the recycling bin. I'm going to search them again in the morning and throw them into the dryer on the highest setting. /r/toronto: if you ever see a red bug with a large abdomen hanging out on your clothes after a ride on the TTC: take that shit seriously. They are not to be taken lightly. 1) Media folks: I'm willing to answer a few questions but I'm only willing to speak anonymously over private messages. As a heads up Global News already got to me first. 2) To clarify the "bed bugs favour high density dwellings" comment: they don't selectively choose apartments over houses by nature but they do tend to pop up in apartments more often by sheer fact of population and the ease to which they can spread to other units.
/ is the best tool available to see if your area has been affected. 3) I'm getting some flak for mentioning that the passenger next to me was developmentally disabled. However, there's also some support, so thank you to those that are rational and not reading into this too much. The fact of the matter is that it's relevant to the story. The developmentally disabled tend to be disproportionately low income, live in social housing far more often (the TCHC is notorious for bed bug infestations) and may not recognize pest problems as an issue. It's unfortunate but it's reality and acknowledging reality doesn't make one prejudiced. Be kind to all of your fellow passengers. 4) As for flicking the bed bug off, what would you have done differently? Mashing it would have brought unwanted attention and... well, you'd be left with bug guts on you for a 30+ minute bus ride unless you wiped them off on the seat. 5) The washroom in question was at Don Mills station. There are no surfaces for the bed bugs to take shelter on and I inspected my surroundings thoroughly to catch anything that might have crawled away.