How to get rid of carpet attogen

Carpet asters are legion in Canada. Their larvae invade homes and museums, causing extensive damage to carpets, and art objects and poisoning our food.

How do I get rid of it? Thanks to a professional exterminator in Montreal, but how do you know what the insect itself looks like? How does it reproduce, what are the habits of this harmful to man? How can we guard against his massive attack?

Here are professional answers to all his questions.

Description of the insect?

Classification

Carpet attogen is a minor insect pest in the dermestidfamily. Adult it has some resemblance to the ladybug. It measures 2.8mm to 5mm with an oval shape and its dark brown or black color.

Adults feed on nectar and pollen. They’re capable of flying.

The larva

The larvae are cylindrical in golden brown. Their heads and legs are well developed. When they mature, they measure between 6mm and 15mm in length.

They’re hairy. The tip of their abdomen is bristling with long brown hairs.

 

Know the life cycle of carpet attogen

Carpet attogen develops inside homes. The insect reproduces at a temperature of 15 to 30 degrees Celsius. The female lays 50 to 100 eggs at the foot of the walls, behind the baseboards, in the attic, in cracks and faeces.

Eggs hatch three weeks later and in wet conditions.

The larva has a lifespan of 1 to 2 years. The larval stage lasts from 258 days to 639 days and the larva will metamorphose up to 20 times depending on humidity and temperature conditions. His last envelope serves as his cocoon. It takes him 6 to 24 days to become an adult.

Adults live 14 to 40 days. 28 days for the adult male and 36 days for the female.

Carpet attagen supports winter in the adult and larval state. There is only one generation of carpet attagen per year.

Is carpet attagen infestation harmful?

Unicoloral attagenu feeds on natural fibres, attacks carpets, clothing, leather furniture. He also likes leftover pet food, dead insects, cereals such as wheat, oats, rye, corn or soybeans.

• The adult enters the dwellings through all openings, without causing any damage, other than to reproduce and produce voracious larvae:
• Furniture or carpets infected with carpet attogen larvae can cause allergy or dermatitis in humans/children. This happens when, for example, the latter plays, lies down on the carpets without realizing the presence of the carpet attogen,
• The larva of carpet attogen punctures the linens, especially sweat-soaked clothes,
• It’s a minor seed pest,
• It grows in closets and museums because it finds organic art objects: furs, insect specimens, leathers, etc.
• It attacks processed foodstuffs (alfalfa flour, ground corn, barley, bran) and pierces them,
• Dead larvae are found in these foodstuffs.

 

Exterminator tips to prevent carpet attogen infestation

Carpet attogen infestations can be prevented by adopting a few guidelines:

• Install mosquito nets or thin mesh to close any ventilation that may allow the insect to return home,
• Rebuff the crevices and all the holes you find at home,
• Keep your windows closed,
• Vacuum often on and under carpets, not to mention furniture,
• Empty your muddle and open the cupboards so that air gets in. Then close them,
• Then close them and fill all the crevices,
• Clean the top and underside of carpets, curtains and furs. Dry-wash them,
• Dry wash or expose your laundry to the cold for a few days,
• You can also wash your laundry with hot soapy water.

Finally if:

• Find holes in carpets and food,
• Notice the presence of larval exuvies in food.

Contact an exterminationexpert.

The means implemented by the professional exterminator

The exterminator will use one or more of the following means.

Spraying destruction of organic insecticides that will attack and kill the insect’s nervous system. it applies these products through the cracks and place of passage of the insect.

It vaporizes in a circular manner while heading towards the exit of the room concerned.

these manipulations are carried out in the safety conditions issued by theAQGP

• Elimination by use of powders such as earth diatoms. This powder kills the insect by dehydrating it.
• Extermination by thorough cleaning of the house.
• Eradication by use of traps.

Be aware that it can be dangerous for you and your offspring to use these different products yourself to exterminate these unsirable insects. Especially since not all products work on them.

So use a carpet attogen exterminator,but not just any one. A true professional exterminator:

• Has an extermination permit provided by the Quebec Ministry of the Environment with the inscription: C5. This means that the pest has been trained and authorized to de extermination of parasites in compliance with Environment Canada regulations,
• Has a developed and very precise working method,
• Always has at his disposal a technician with a professional certification in extermination,
• Quickly rush to the scene to identify the pests, their source and the degree of infestation,
• Offers a treatment specifically tailored to your case,
• Forms and sensitizes the inhabitants to the various measures they must take to stop suffering from these pests,
• Works discreetly.
• Offers you a formal guarantee on the effectiveness of its treatment against carpet attagen.

And you, have you been a victim of carpet asters? If so, how did you proceed with their elimination? Tell us in the comments below.