Clothes moth control

OTHER COMMENTS used as a fumigant popular for domestic use against clothes moths used as a deodorant for garbage and restrooms used as an insecticide for control of ants, fruitborers, and tree-boring insects. 

Sximithrin (d-phenothrin) was also evaluated in home laundry studies identical to those described for permethrin and excellent results were obtained (Bry et al., 1983). An RTU (Ready-to-Use) formulation of tetramethrin and d-phenothrin formulated as a treatment for cockroach and flea control (Bry et al., 1984) using lower concentrations of Al (0.05% tetramethrin and 0.10% d-phenothrin) applied at five g of spray per square foot was also very effective against black and furniture carpet beetles and webbing clothes moth larvae when the treated wool was stored in a darkened closet for six months. 

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was first synthesized in 1874, but it was almost 65 years later before its insecticidal properties were discovered by the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Mueller. Employed by J. R. Geigy, Inc. (Basel, Switzerland), Mueller was searching for new insecticides against clothes moths and carpet beetles when he stumbled across the insecticidal properties of DDT. Samples of the chemical found their way to the United States and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Orlando, Florida, in 1942. Once its tremendous effectiveness in controlling mosquitoes was demonstrated, DDT was put into service protecting the troops in 1944. 

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