Habitat
Clothes fish like to live in warm and humid places. Often found in the glue coated old books, paintings, woolen clothes and papier-maché boxes and boxes, and even the bottom of the refrigerator, turn on the heater in the bathroom, the cracks in the floor tiles, the kitchen wall cracks there may be a clothes fish traces.
1. Living in houses, they feed on a variety of foods, paste, gum, books and silk clothes.
2. Like to live in dark, damp or confined places. It is one of the common warehouse pests in China and can be found in stored cereals, beans, oil, books, clothes and other items.
Control
Clothes fish are afraid of daylight, often hiding in dark places, and at night, clothes fish come out to eat clothes, books and other items.
Some of the following methods to extinguish or eliminate the clothes fish, although effective, but are treating the symptoms rather than the root cause:
Mixing the ratio of 1:1 borax and granulated sugar can effectively kill the clothes fish.
The odor of an aqueous solution of ammonium chloride repels cladocerans within 24 hours.
Gypsum powder is sprinkled on a dampened white cotton cloth and placed in a corner of the room overnight, close to the hiding place of the coat fish.
Place a board with a slightly grated potato on it next to the fish's hiding place; when the fish come out at night, they will dive into the potato and feast on it. The next morning, you can throw the potato away along with the fish. Although they are a nuisance to human life, they are actually harmless. In buildings, the fish must have a moist and empty environment to survive; as long as the environment is dry and there are no cracks in the building, the fish will disappear naturally.