How to deal with bed bugs - the best methods of destruction and prevention

how to deal with bed bugs
How to deal with bed bugs

Hello! My former work colleague used to torment me with questions about and without. Last month, she came running with her new misfortune.

They found bugs in their house. Arina was in shock - she carefully monitors the order, how could this even happen?

Well, again, I had to act as her savior. She told her reliable ways to get rid of these insects. Want to learn how to deal with bed bugs? How to prevent their appearance in your home? Then the article below will become your reliable assistant.

How to deal with bed bugs

On the territory of the Russian Federation, one species was recorded - Cimex lectularius L. Bed bugs are nesting-burrowing bloodsuckers. Their development takes place according to the type of incomplete transformation - an egg, a larva (5 ages), outwardly similar to an imago.

Important!
Bedbugs breed in heated rooms all year round. The female lays 1 to 12 eggs daily, attaching them with the secret of glands to the substrate (cracks in the walls, furniture, wallpaper, etc.). The odorous secretion of glands gives the places of concentration of bugs an unpleasant smell.

The timing of development depends on the temperature and humidity in the rooms. At a temperature of 22 - 26 ° C, eggs develop 3 - 5 days, at a temperature of 14 - 18 ° C - 18 - 20 days. Under favorable conditions of nutrition and temperature, larvae develop 25–28 days and molt 5 times during this time.

To move to the next age, the larva must drink a full portion of blood. Bedbugs feed on the blood of humans, animals and birds, so they can often be found in vivariums, poultry farms, nests of pigeons and other synanthropic birds. An adult female bug can drink up to 7 mg of blood, the larva - up to 1.3 mg.

After a bug bite, there is a burning sensation, itching, abscesses can occur in places of combing. Bedbugs at low temperatures can tolerate prolonged, up to one year, starvation. The life expectancy of bedbugs is 1 - 1.5 g.

Usually bed bugs are nocturnal, but if they are hungry for a long time, they can attack during the day. In search of prey, bedbugs migrate and can make large transitions (from floor to floor) through ventilation channels, and in the warm season, along the outer walls of houses.

Bedbugs greatly annoy people with their bites. In their body, pathogens of a number of diseases (plague, tularemia, Q fever, etc.) can persist for a long time.

Relatively high fecundity, the ability to starve for a long time, and intensively settle in search of food contribute to the spread of bugs in the premises. Bed bugs can be brought into the room with furniture and other things.

They are found primarily in communal facilities - residential buildings, dormitories, hotels; much less often - in medical and children's facilities - medical hospitals, sanatoriums, boarding houses for the elderly and mentally retarded.

Advice!
In all these objects, bugs with low and moderate numbers live primarily in bedroom furniture, with high numbers they also populate cabinet furniture, hide in books, in picture frames, wooden window sills.

The resettlement of bugs inside buildings from one room to the next can occur independently.Settlement of buildings can be passive - people bring bugs with household items - furniture, paintings, books, luggage, clothes, bedding, etc.

Fighter activities

With a slight occupancy of the premises by insecticide bugs, only their habitats are treated; in case of high occupancy, places of their possible resettlement are also subject to processing (skirting boards, places for wallpaper to lag around door and window frames, crevices in walls and furniture, ventilation grilles).

In hospitals, when bugs are found in beds, the latter are replaced with clean ones. Processing of beds, bedside tables is carried out outside the chambers, after which (after 1 - 2 days) they are washed with hot water and soda.

Disinfestation in dormitories, hotels, apartments is carried out in the morning, in children's institutions - after the departure of children, on the eve of a weekend.

Inspection and processing begin with furnishings (pushed away from the walls) sequentially along the wall. At the same time process cracks in the walls and baseboards. For the destruction of bugs located in the crevices of the walls, behind skirting boards, door frames, in books, powdered preparations are used.

Solutions and emulsions of insecticides that stain furniture upholstery, drapery, wallpaper, apply, avoiding heavy moisture.

To combat bedbugs, drugs based on FOS, pyrethroids, carbamates are used.

However, it should be remembered that the most effective use of drugs based on compounds with ovicidal activity (FOS), that is, drugs that can destroy bedbug eggs.

Attention!
If you use drugs based on pyrethroids and carbamates, which are all-ovocidal, i.e. not destroying bedbug eggs, re-treatment should be carried out after 10-14 days in order to destroy bugs larvae emerging from eggs.

The 22nd report of the WHO Committee of Experts indicated that bed bugs resistant to DDT and HCH are found everywhere.

Replacing organochlorine insectoacaricides with organophosphorus ones has led to the emergence of populations resistant to some representatives of this group. In 1964 In Israel, a malathion-resistant population has been identified.

In connection with these data and an increase in the number of bugs in the cities of our country, there is an increasing need to develop measures to prevent the formation of insecticide-resistant populations of these vectors.

To combat bedbugs, organophosphate insecticides (chlorophos, preparations based on chlorpyrifos, malathion, fenthion, which have an ovicidal effect on bedbug eggs, unlike pyrethroids, whose action is pseudo-ovicidal, should be used).

Destruction of bed bugs

Flattened insects of a dirty yellow or dark brown shade that suck human blood and turn a night's rest into a nightmare are bed bugs. Their other name is "home".

Indeed, living next to them is an unbearable torment. Sometimes a person is forced to change an apartment (if it is rented), a hotel, a hostel. Are bed bugs invincible? How to deal with bed bugs at home? Where do they come from?

Historical and Entomological Reference

Bedbugs were not always treated with hostility and hatred. Probably insects appeared almost simultaneously with humans. They coexisted with people and bats in caves. The first mention of bedbugs is in ancient Greek sources.

Insects were endowed with healing powers. It was believed that the bloodsucker helps to neutralize snake venom, cure an ear disease. In the Middle Ages, hysteria was treated with bedbugs. This attitude to blood-sucking insects persisted until the nineteenth century. From this period, these creatures began to be perceived as parasites.

Bed bugs settle not only in human dwellings. They love bird nests, animal burrows, caves, hollow trees.However, they try to stay closer to human habitation.

Bed bug - an insect in the form of a flattened oval. Sometimes it is rounded (after eating a good blood) and acquires a red tint. On the head of the insect there is a sharp proboscis with which it pierces the skin and sucks blood. In place of the bite, the insect secretes saliva so that the blood does not clot while the bug eats.

Bedbugs do not jump and do not fly. But nature endowed them with such sizes and shapes that it is not difficult to hide from a person. Klopiks easily hide between pages of books, under wallpaper and plaster, under a mattress and in the folds of curtains. It’s easy for them to climb walls and ceilings.

The flattened body of the parasite makes it less susceptible to mechanical destruction. That is, just to slam it is unlikely to succeed.

Important!
How to get rid of domestic bugs if a female manages to lay eggs every day ?! Throughout her life (and this is about a year and a half) she manages to lay more than a thousand eggs!

If parasites feel bad, they migrate to where there is more food and warmth. I did not like it in one apartment - for ventilation, the outer walls moved to another.

Harm

Domestic bugs are parasites. Their main diet is human and animal blood. During the day they are difficult to see: they hide in warm and dark, inaccessible places. Go out only at night to eat.

The increased activity of domestic bugs refers to the time from three in the morning to eight in the morning. Parasites attack in the dark. If they are very hungry, then they are not stopped by artificial lighting.

With a shortage of food and heat, the bugs can freeze indefinitely. Suppose you do not live in a country house for several months. Bedbugs overslept this time. And when you return, they will resume the hunt for blood.

When the bug bites, we do not feel. But at this point the skin turns red and itches. Because of what we are uncomfortable.

It is still unknown whether or not domestic animals carry any diseases. But their bites are not only unpleasant for a person, but also dangerous. Than?

  • Bites of parasites deprive a person of healthy sleep. As a result, working capacity, attention decreases, irritability, fatigue appears.
  • Some people develop an allergic reaction to bedbug bites.
  • A skin rash after bites spoils the appearance of the body and face.
  • Bites can be a traumatic factor.
  • Combing the area of ​​the bite, you can bring the infection.

How to understand that our enemy is a bug?

Firstly, bedbugs bite a person at night. That is, in the morning you will find bite marks on yourself. If the apartment is badly infected, the number of red spots on the body can be up to five hundred.

Secondly, the traces of bedbug bites stretch linearly, in a chain. Since parasites do not suck blood in one place. They are moving.

Advice!
Thirdly, the site of the bite increases from night to night. This is due to the fact that bloodsuckers prefer already proven places.

Fourth, in the morning on the sheet you can find spots or strips of your own blood. Turning around in a dream, you probably crushed a blood-sucking parasite.

A young bug to suck, sucks blood for about three to five minutes. An adult needs about fifteen minutes. Then the insect hides in its shelter and digests food. This process takes about five days at the bedbug.

Within two to three days, bite marks pass on their own. To alleviate itching, the affected area should be washed with warm water, treated with an antiseptic. In severe cases, an antibacterial ointment or antihistamine cream.

How to deal with their appearance

No one is safe from the appearance of bugs. They settle both in dirty homes and in clean housewives. Where do parasites come from?

  1. From a neighboring apartment from an unclean neighbor.
  2. They are brought into a new house with things, with furniture (even a new one).
  3. They are brought by relatives or you yourself from a business trip or excursion.

How can they be detected? Examine all furniture, joints, crevices, skirting boards, seams in old wallpapers. Everything, everything, everything. In the habitats of these parasites you can find black dots (these are skins of larvae, eggs), excrement.

How to prevent the emergence of bed critters? Avoid visits to homes where these insects live. And you know about it for sure.

Try not to settle in dormitories, apartments, hotels with bugs during tourist trips and business trips. We stopped by, asked the owners, checked the slots themselves, the furniture. While checking, put your luggage on the table. If there is a suspicion, it is better to change the housing.

Check the purchased furniture, mattresses before you bring all this into the apartment. Do not let birds and bats settle in the attics.

If uncleaned neighbors live in the house and you find out about the infection of their apartment with bedbugs, call the sanitary-epidemiological service. It is better to quarrel with neighbors than to poison the parasites on their own. If bed bugs nevertheless appeared in the house, how to get rid of them?

Get rid forever

Home bugs do not like very low and very high temperatures. This can be used during the military action against insects. There are two ways to "treat" at home from bed creatures:

  • leave and make them starve;
  • treat furniture and an apartment with a chemical agent.

With a local lesion, folk methods for controlling domestic bugs can be effective.

Treat the infected area with steam. If this is an old chair or a battered mattress, you can even pour boiling water over it. With new things you need to be careful. Use steam irons, steam cleaners and steam generators. It is best to completely disassemble a sofa or bed. And steam each seam and every detail.

Attention!
In non-residential premises, furnished with refractory structures, parasites can be burned. Having found a location, treat it with an open flame.

In five hundred milliliters of kerosene, dilute 175 milliliters of carbon disulfide and twenty-five grams of laundry soap. Mix the product until it becomes homogeneous. They need to well handle the location of bed bugs.

Combine kerosene, turpentine, vinegar and transformer oil. Treat this insect with a lethal mixture.

We collect infected clothes, bedspreads, soft toys and wash in very hot water, at least fifty degrees. If you want to make fun of parasites, put the infected objects in a black plastic bag and close it in a car parked in the summer sunshine. If it is winter outside, leave infected objects in the cold.

A small number of bugs just about to populate your home can be scared off in the following ways:

  • spray diluted cedar oil near the bed (the method is also effective in combating swelling and itching in a bitten place);
  • lay out branches of dried wormwood in the apartment (in cabinets with bedding, with clothes, in the corners, behind the baseboards);
  • put fresh twigs of rosemary on the premises or just torn tansy flowers.

Processing the apartment with chemicals is more effective. Preparatory measures:

  • find places of localization of bed insects;
  • disassemble furniture in an infected room; vacuum all affected areas; walk with a vacuum cleaner to all nooks and crannies of the apartment;
  • to process distant cracks with a directed steam stream of a steam cleaner;
  • wash all bedding, all clothes at high water temperature (more than fifty degrees); items that cannot be exposed to high temperatures should be returned to the disinfection chambers; wash curtains and tulles;
  • carry out wet cleaning of the apartment;
  • tightly pack dishes and food.

This will help to mechanically remove bed creatures and their larvae. Unfortunately, such a procedure is not enough.Next, you need to process the places of residence of home bugs and other secluded places with chemical agents. Choose:

Neopin. White powder, non-toxic, low hazard. It is used in diluted form (ten grams of powder per liter of water). Using a spray gun, the product is applied to furniture and all visible gaps.

They also process corridors, doorways, and ventilation openings. Two hours later, the apartment is wet-cleaned. For the next day, it is advisable to move out of the room, leaving the windows open.

Riapan. Powder against bedbugs. It is scattered in places of localization of insects with a thin layer. Leave for two to three weeks. Then the apartment is doing wet cleaning. As a rule, one treatment is enough to completely destroy the bugs. Riapan is slightly toxic and odorless.

Geth. A liquid composition for controlling bugs. It is odorless. Safe for pets and people. Geth need to be bred in water. Concentration depends on the degree of infection of the room. On average, from 1: 5 to 1:10. The whole apartment is treated with a tool, then it is ventilated for four hours. Get does not leave marks and spots, therefore, immediate wet cleaning is not required.

Important!
Many bugs chemicals are only sold to people and companies that have disinfection licenses. This is due to the high toxicity of such drugs.

Those drugs that are approved for sale to individuals have less toxicity. Therefore, re-processing of the premises is often necessary.

Rules for the use of chemicals:

  1. remove pets and people from the apartment;
  2. use rubber gloves and, if possible, protective clothing; if instruction is required - a respirator or gas mask;
  3. after treatment, ventilate the premises for several hours;
  4. Do not use expired products.

In severe cases of infection with bed bugs, it is better to contact specialists.

How to deal with bed bugs quickly, efficiently, simply

Bedbugs should be fought immediately, without waiting for the number of parasites to reach a critical amount. Finding bed bugs in a clean apartment is a rather unpleasant surprise. It happens that only one bug got into the room, then you can even deal with it with an ordinary slipper, thereby suppressing all the chances of the bugs to breed.

If there are several adults, you will have to poison with more effective methods. Can I get rid of bed bugs on my own for a long time? In short, the answer is “Yes!”. But not so easy to do.

The timely detection of bed bugs, which so far does not threaten the occupation of the entire apartment, allows you to start the fight yourself, without resorting to expensive pleasure - calling special services.

Having made such a responsible decision, we should not forget that universal remedies that have a detrimental effect on insects and completely freeing the room from vile bloodsuckers are just a beautiful myth.

The uniqueness of bed bugs is that they quickly and easily get used to toxic substances.

The drug with which the neighbors cleaned their apartment in another room will turn into a useless tool.

In this case, there is only one way out, but success here is guaranteed only if you use an integrated approach at home. It is necessary to carry out several treatments, each time using a new tool, it does not matter - purchased or made independently.

Advice!
There are quite a lot of ways to get rid of parasitic insects, if the family of bugs is very small, then it is better to resort to proven folk methods.

A fairly large number of bloodsuckers will require the intervention of chemicals, they can be purchased in specialized stores. If there are a lot of parasites, during each cleaning, the remains of bugs are sweeping out from under the bed:

  1. armor;
  2. excrement;
  3. eggs
  4. dead adults.

This indicates that it is not possible to cope with bugs on their own, only special services are able to completely clean the room in a short time.

How to deal with bed insects: basic rules

There are very few rules for treating bed bugs, but you need to know them, regardless of what methods it will be conducted. Mandatory conditions:

  • a thorough inspection of the entire room in order to detect the nests and places of the greatest accumulation of bugs;
  • checking wardrobes, clothes, bedding, even soft toys, and generally the entire apartment from floor to ceiling;
  • selection of the most effective processing method;
  • apartment preparation (removal of food, dishes, hygiene products in inaccessible places);
  • processing pre-discovered habitats and pathways that parasites move;
  • wet cleaning after a while (depends on the chosen method of controlling bugs);
  • repeated thorough processing, but with a different drug.

It is important when searching for bed bugs to remember that sometimes parasites can fall into an interesting form of sleep - pseudoanabiosis.

In this state of living individuals, it is rather difficult to distinguish from the dead, but these places need to be treated especially carefully, since when insects wake up, they will continue their life activity.

Most drugs can kill even sleeping bugs, but only with direct contact with toxic substances.

The best ways to fight

There are few ways to destroy bed bugs, but they are enough to clean the apartment of bloodsuckers. You can apply in the fight against parasites: (Read the article - Fighting bugs)

  • folk simple means;
  • exposure to temperature conditions (boiling water or frost);
  • insecticidal chemicals.

Folk remedies for controlling bugs, although the most popular, are nonetheless ineffective.

Most often they are used to scare away blood-sucking insects, since it is difficult to destroy bed bugs even with chemicals.

Attention!
It is almost impossible to fight with herbs that quickly get used to poisons. It is recommended to combine plant materials with chemicals, this will allow you to get rid of bed bugs in a short time.

Temperature conditions are a rather time-consuming method, especially if you try to deal with bedbugs with the help of frost, when the temperature drops below -20 degrees.

If bedding, clothes, and small furniture are easy to handle (they can be easily taken out into the yard and left for a while), then this method is not suitable for sofas or bulky armchairs.

It’s a little easier to resort to the effects of hot temperature on bed bugs. The discovered nest can be doused with steep boiling water or hot steam, and items of clothing thoroughly ironed with a hot iron.

Chemical means of combating bed bloodsuckers - the most effective way to deal with bedbugs and in a short time to clean the apartment from an undesirable neighborhood.

A remarkable property of insecticides is that they store destructive properties for insects for a long time, which allows you to protect the room from a new invasion or to destroy bugs lurking for a long time in secluded corners of bugs.

The chemicals contain many toxic substances, so if there are babies, people who are allergic, pregnant, as well as pets, it is better to resort to another method of destroying the bed bug, or to relocate households to a different room for a long time.

Means of destruction: what to choose?

The choice of drugs against unwanted parasites in the apartment is extensive, you can purchase an effective drug in accordance with any contents of the wallet. If you want to save significantly - self-prepared mixtures work just as well, the bed bug will surely die.

Of the purchased chemicals, the following are recommended:

  • Ecokiller;
  • Executioner;
  • Carbosol;
  • Xulat;
  • Combat
  • Clean house;
  • Pyrethrum;
  • Karbofos;
  • Neopin;
  • Tetrix
  • Dichlorvos.

Before purchasing, you should decide which drug is most suitable for treating a room populated by bugs, since the drugs are divided into several types:

  1. powder;
  2. spray can;
  3. liquid.

Insecticides are applied to the surface or sprayed in the air and must remain there exactly the time indicated by the manufacturer in the instructions.

Important!
Self-activity (increasing the time of exposure to bed bugs or a more concentrated solution) is very undesirable, since use not according to the instructions can harm not only parasites, but also the residents of the room.

With your own hands, you can prepare a disastrous preparation for bed bugs from simple and affordable components:

  • 80 gr. turpentine;
  • 90 ml of ethyl alcohol;
  • 3 ml camphor alcohol.

Mix all the components and apply the product to all the paths of bed bloodsuckers and the largest places of accumulation of parasites.

We should not forget about preventive measures - a home-made preparation will serve as an insurmountable barrier in the ventilation ducts and small crevices of the walls. It is enough to periodically apply a thin layer of the mixture on the paths of penetration of bugs into the room.

Call of special services

Having tried all methods of destroying or expelling bed bugs from an apartment, many tenants give up and hope that the parasites will leave on their own.

It will take a long time to wait for this event, since the bloodsuckers are not going to clean up anywhere, but will only multiply rapidly. In this case, only special services can help, but their services are quite expensive.

Only specialists can decide how the processing will be carried out, and by what means, because many nuances are taken into account here.

It should also be borne in mind that most drugs have a persistent and rather unpleasant odor. You can warn security officers in advance that it is advisable to use an insecticide that is generally odorless or has a mild aroma.

When choosing a special service, you should heed the advice of friends who have already carried out such treatments. Why is it necessary to take such a simple process responsibly?

Advice!
There are frequent cases when work in the apartment is carried out by an ordinary household sprayer, moreover, by suspicious persons. Of course, wait for the death of bed bugs after such treatment is not worth it.

A good company will send a qualified professional, equipped with all necessary accessories:

  • protective equipment;
  • special clothes;
  • equipment (hot or cold fog generator).

One type of treatment for controlling bugs is hot or cold fog. What is the difference between hot and cold?

During hot processing, the particles are much smaller in size than in cold, which allows them to stay in the air for a long time, slowly settling on all surfaces.

Due to this property, substances harmful to bed bugs are quite easy to penetrate into the most inaccessible and hidden corners of the room.

Cold processing is effective only when the generator is directed to the places where insects accumulate. Professionals are well aware of how to handle the device so as not to leave a chance for insects, so do not worry about an unfavorable outcome for apartment residents.

How long does the work of specialists take?

A medium-sized room will take several hours. You should not return home a few more hours after the departure of the special services. Only after this time, you can return home and carry out wet cleaning, but usually only those surfaces with which there is direct contact of the residents of the room.

Attention!
Fighting bugs is quite difficult and, sometimes, not fast. And only the owners of the premises to choose how to conduct processing.

There are few options - independently work on bed bugs or ask professionals to clean the room from unpleasant guests.

In bed with the enemy

How to deal with bedbugs at home, and whether measures will be taken effectively, depends on many factors. These include: the size of the parasite population in this room and its size, the method of control, the means used.

Of all the “domestic” insect pests, bed bugs, although the oldest “neighbors” of humans, are not the most desirable. Moreover, they can live wherever there is food: in barracks, dormitories, private houses, hotels, cottages, and even in a doghouse or in a house.

As you can see, the respectable position of the house or apartment cannot be a guarantee of the absence of parasites in it. For the normal existence of these pests, you need: normal temperature (+ 20-30 ° C), humidity and food. But they still prefer human blood.

Panic with the appearance of bed bloodsuckers, is not necessary. After all, you can independently get bugs. Such a procedure today is no longer a problem. In the arsenal of the modern chemical industry, there are many drugs that can help any layman in this matter.

Destruction methods

Before etching domestic bugs, you must correctly select the method for etching them. It is a key step in the fight against these parasites. It is the method of getting rid of insects that affects the speed of their destruction and the cost of such a procedure for the layman.

Not knowing all the intricacies of such work, you can spend a lot of energy, but you still can’t achieve efficiency. The most effective and most popular methods of controlling bugs are the following actions.

Important!
Calling special insect pest control companies or SES services. This is the most effective and fastest way to get rid of parasites, but one of the most expensive.

Specialists of such services at a professional level are able and know how to deal with bedbugs at home. But, unfortunately, this method is only available to residents of large settlements, their suburbs or small towns.

It is possible to bring out bugs in an apartment without involving any authorities. For this, synthetic insecticides are used. This method is more affordable and does not require a lot of cost, effort and time.

Moreover, how to etch bugs from the premises using pesticides can be found by reading the instructions on their packaging or in the media. This method is used more often than others. Moreover, if we approach this issue competently, it gives good results in the fight against these bloodsuckers.

Thermal treatments of the entire room, furniture and all other things. The main advantage of this method is that it is the safest for humans and pets.

Its effectiveness is also very high: bed bugs can get used to a chemical preparation, but never to sudden changes in temperature. The disadvantage of this method is the complexity of the organization (technical side) and the high cost.

Mechanical or physical destruction. Probably, everyone has already guessed how to get the bugs out of the apartment in this way - this is an ordinary “slipper” or vacuum cleaner. This method, of course, is not expensive, but it requires a lot of labor, which, however, is ineffective.

Popular popular methods and tools used to combat parasites. This method is the cheapest of all previously voiced. But its effectiveness can be very different.

Advice!
It will depend on the number of parasites in the house and on the set of tools used to destroy them.

Before etching bugs only with home remedies, it must be remembered that these methods are much weaker in power and may not lead to the desired result.

Action plan

To decide how to get the bugs out of the apartment, you need to carefully evaluate the complexity of the current situation and outline a plan for the following necessary actions:

It is necessary to find out from all neighbors of adjacent apartments (from the sides, from above, from below) and check whether they have bed bugs at home. After all, these parasites most often enter the house from such infected apartments. If at least one of these insects appeared, efforts must be coordinated.

And the question of how to etch bugs at home, to solve together. In any case, any method will not be effective if the efforts made against bedbugs will be carried out only in one of these apartments.

If bed bugs are detected only in one of the apartments, and there are not so many of them yet, then the fight against the parasite can be carried out with special chemicals. Just do not need to hope for "little blood": the treatment of the premises against bedbugs must be carried out fully and thoroughly.

It also happens: bed bugs appeared only in the couch, in the table or in clothes. In this case, the question of how to get bedbugs out of the sofa and other infected furniture is solved very simply and quickly:

  1. If you do not mind - they can simply be thrown away, especially when this furniture and clothes are old enough.
  2. Use the temperature method, lowering the room temperature below 22 ° C. This method can be used only at certain times of the year, and then, given that the heating system of the room may suffer.

How to get bedbugs out of the apartment yourself, using only folk remedies, you can ask the same neighbors or ask yourself. But you should know that such a method is best used in non-residential premises, and in several stages.

Attention!
The reason is that all effective “folk remedies” against bedbugs have, in most cases, an unpleasant, strong and pungent odor, and quite stable. Means with a milder odor (for example, plants) do not have such an effect.

All of these methods will not be useful if the work to destroy the bugs is not coordinated with their housemates.

Features of the call of the sanitary service

How to get bedbugs out of an apartment, and which method is most effective for a large accumulation of these parasites? Of course, this is a call to the house of pest specialists. Having examined the premises, they will decide, after agreeing on their decision with the owner of the apartment, which of the drugs is best used in this case.

SES, in most cases, use low-hazard drugs for pets and humans. These include funds based on pyrethroids: Kinmix, Executioner, and Tetrix. Their action takes place over several hours, so it will be possible to return to the house on the day the premises are treated against bugs.

Particularly large services to save the population from domestic parasites have in their arsenal special equipment for processing rooms using high temperatures: electric heaters, heat generators, industrial hair dryers and others.

Interestingly, neither parasite larvae, nor eggs, nor adult domestic bugs can tolerate low (-18 ° C) and high temperatures (above + 50 ° C). How to get bedbugs at low temperature can be found in any Siberian village.

In ancient times, for the inhabitants of Siberia, this method was the cheapest, simplest and very effective, since the temperature in those places can drop much lower than -18 ° C.

Bed bugs with the help of pest control etch very quickly. The exception is the large area of ​​the room and its specifics. All work takes several hours. And another half day after processing the apartment you need to spend outside the house, waiting for the action of the drug.

How to choose the company to destroy parasites?

Studying the question of how to get bedbugs out of an apartment using pest control, you need to carefully approach the choice of such a company. Efficiency of work and the safety of residents living in it depend on their actions.

Reliable companies differ:

  • Consistency between tenant and company. For example, its managers must agree in advance on the timing of the operation, the number of residents living in the apartment, including children, the elderly, pregnant women, nursing mothers, animals, as well as their tendency to allergies.
  • The procedure for the destruction of insects will always take place at predetermined dates.
  • The company's managers will conduct training on the preparation of the premises for disinfection and on the actions of the residents at this time.
  • How to eradicate bugs from the premises, and with what preparations, the incoming team will be informed in advance, so she will have all the necessary preparations, equipment and tools.
  • Services for processing premises against bugs will be carried out only after the signing of an agreement drawn up in a special form and signed by two parties.

Insecticide self-destruction

You can independently remove bugs with the help of insecticides. To do this, you need to use the most popular means: “Karbofos”, “Get”, “Combat”, “Tetrix”, “Fufanon”, “Executioner”, “Combat” and others.

Important!
Remember that those tools that the neighbors used are better not to use: they may not bring the desired result. Bed bugs quickly get used to any drug, developing resistance to it. Therefore, their recommendations on how to get bedbugs out of an apartment on their own are better not to listen, but to look for another high-speed insecticide.

All insecticides are produced by the chemical industry in various forms: aerosols, powders, crayons, suspensions. Their use against bedbugs requires completely different approaches.

For example, powders are poured in the places of the greatest concentration of bloodsuckers, suspensions can be used to treat almost all surfaces and even clothes, and aerosols are used to completely treat the room.

Bug bugs from the apartment, not taking into account the toxicity of the drug, its effect on surrounding people and animals is not recommended. Before using them, be sure to remove all animals, people from the house, and it is better to pack clothes in sealed bags.

Use special protective equipment and tools for work. Well, if the whole process of getting rid of parasites will be carried out in full and in one day.

Partial treatment of the premises against bugs will lead only to a slight decrease in insects, after which a sharp increase in their numbers will follow. Moreover, the new generation will appear already with acquired resistance to the previously used insecticide.

The use of folk remedies

How to get bedbugs out of the apartment yourself using recipes and funds used by the people is not particularly difficult. Such funds can be purchased at any hardware or specialty store.

These include: dust, denatured alcohol, turpentine, camphor and their derivatives or mixtures. There are many recipes that help to independently remove bedbugs based on such drugs, but their effectiveness is very low.

Advice!
Plants of maximum concentration of bed bugs and approaches to them, places of presumptive parasites, cracks on furniture and walls, under baseboards and wallpaper, etc. are treated with such substances.

The main drawback of these remedies and bedbug recipes is the pungent, unpleasant odor. Moreover, it does not erode for a long time from the premises. But it is the smell that is the main reason for the destruction of bugs. But along with the parasites, their owners will have to leave the treated premises.

It is the bloodsuckers' dislike for various even pleasant aromas that our ancient ancestors used, using plants as poisoners. Bed bugs do not tolerate the smell of dry or freshly cut tansy, wormwood, calamus, ledum, chamomile and vinegar.

This is not to say that their aroma will be as effective as dust or turpentine solutions. Of course, the effectiveness of herbs will be much lower, especially since their period of action is also short.

Plants used against bugs can be attributed to purely preventive methods, but not to the main ones. They can be laid out under the bed, in the corners of the room, near skirting boards, etc., to scare away parasites (they run away from the room), but not to destroy them.

To summarize, we can say that chemical protection agents are still the most effective.

And before you bring bugs out of the apartment, pay attention not only to the effectiveness of the drug, but also to its effect on humans and animals.

Means and methods of combating bed bugs

The bedbug (domestic) belongs to the semi-winged insect, leads a parasitic lifestyle, settling in people's homes. From other types of insects (cockroaches, ants, moths), it differs in that it feeds exclusively on human blood. With their bites to disturb people at night, causing this tangible discomfort.

What does an insect look like?

A home bug is distinguished by a flat, wide body. If you look at it from above, then in a hungry state it resembles a round plaque. Adult individuals are even brown in color, but can be light red, especially if the insect has not had time to drink a fresh portion of blood. After the meal, the color changes to dark or acquires a rich black color.

Attention!
The sizes of insects vary from 4 to 8 mm. There are no special differences in the sizes of males and females. Regardless of its age, the insect sucks blood 2 times more than its own body weight at a time.

Female bugs are fertile, laying eggs every day. One female, throughout her life, is able to lay more than 300 eggs (4-5 daily). Bedbug eggs resemble rice grains in shape and color, although they are smaller, about 1 mm long.

Larvae from eggs appear on the 5-6th day, and after 1.5 months turn into adults. At the beginning of their birth, they look almost the same as adult insects, but differ in a lighter color and smaller size.

These creatures lead a nocturnal lifestyle, they are not visible during the day. The main activity of insects falls at predawn time, from 3 to 6 in the morning. The bed bug moves quite fast.

In some matter of minutes he manages to get to bed, having spent 20 minutes eating, he cleans up to his habitat.

If you find these intruders in your apartment or house, immediately take appropriate measures. Otherwise, the fight against bedbugs will drag on for a long time and will require more radical measures to destroy it.

Features of insect control methods

Bedbug is quite an ancient creature, during its existence it constantly accompanies the human race.

As civilization developed, more and more new methods were developed to combat bed bugs.

Due to the fact that these parasites surprisingly quickly develop protective resistance to many chemicals, the creation of new methods of dealing with them is still an urgent topic. To destroy parasites, the following methods are popular:

  • Chemical insecticides (poisons). They have a high effective result. Many of these products are completely safe for humans and pets. However, you should strictly adhere to the instructions, and observe precautions.
  • The temperature method. It has a good effective effect, but requires some time and certain actions. With this method, heat generators, industrial hair dryers (for treating the room with heat) are used, or freezing is used in the cold season.
  • Mold fungus. An innovative method of destroying bed bugs. Its action is based on the defeat of the family of bedbugs by the spurs of the fungus, which subsequently leads to their death. True, this method is currently under development and study.
  • Folk remedies.The use of folk methods in the fight against bed bugs is not very effective, they are only suitable for repelling insects, they cannot completely destroy parasites. They are advisable to use for prevention and to protect the premises from infection.
  • Special traps. Such devices can be purchased in stores or made independently.

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  1. When our son brought the bugs to us from the hostel, we fought with them for a very long time and nothing came of it. Until they contacted the company Defox. They arrived quickly to our application and after their processing the bugs disappeared. We were satisfied with the result.

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