25 000 parasites in your New Year tree

Tiny bugs can cause allergic reaktsii



Among tinsel and toys on every Christmas tree is home to about 25 thousand parasites - lice, mites, moths, spiders and tiny. Usually in the winter they hibernate, but in the warmth of the living room, where the trees come in from the cold, wake up, because it seems that spring has come.



If, before the release of white cloth to wipe the tree, then the fabric will hordes of small bugs. According to an associate professor at the University Museum of Bergen in Norway Bjarte Jordan, people with allergies can react badly to a large number of mites in the tree. However, eating house plants or fir needles insects can not, so that very soon die.



In the firs who cut down the forests, rather than on the Christmas tree farm, bugs more. Wash and clean the wood, to get rid of the bugs, it is impossible - this can harm the tree. In addition, we must not forget that ordinary houseplants, too, have the smallest insects, with whom we live side by side.

via factroom.ru