Flea sprays for an apartment

Indoor flea spray is one of the best forms of release of insecticides. Convenience when processing a large area, profitability, high penetrating ability, safety make the spray popular and popular. Many companies produce flea spray for home and pet. The insecticides used in both cases are the same, but the concentration and balance of the components are different.

Characterization of the used insecticides

A flea spray contains one or more types of insecticides. The most effective are those funds that include 2-3 active substances. The use of complex means exclude the appearance of resistant species of blood-sucking insects. According to studies, synanthropic insects are most prone to resistance - flea chitaracans, ants , bed bugs.

In order to relieve a home of fleas, it is necessary to first destroy the parasites on their carriers and the most attractive objects for food, which is a pet. Only then can you proceed to cleaning the pests of the premises. When choosing a spray, you need to know the characteristics of insecticides in order to choose the most effective remedy.

1. Pyrethrin or pyrethrum is a natural substance that is obtained from dry plant materials - Dalmatian or Caucasian chamomile. It is used as an insecticide against bloodsucking insects, not addictive in them. A disadvantage of a substance is its instability to light.
2. A synthetic derivative of pyrethrin is permethrin. There are its isomers Deltamethrin, Cypermethrin, Talstar, Tetramethrin, which are more resistant to external influences, more toxic to insects and arachnids. The most used group of insecticides and acaricides, included in the flea spray in the apartment.
3. Fipronil is a substance that is part of the sprays for treating animal hair and for cleaning the room from fleas and other synanthropic insects. The substance affects the transmission of nerve impulses of the insect, which leads to paralysis and death of adults and larvae.
4. Benzyl benzoate is a substance that contains a flea spray for humans, as well as anti-pediculosis drugs and skin diseases. In high concentration, it effectively destroys crawling and flying pests in the home.
5. Piperonylbutoxide is most often used in complex preparations, since its introduction helps to increase the effectiveness of the components according to the principle of synergism. When piperonylbutoxide is added to pyrethroids, it accelerates the onset of paralysis in fleas by 4 times, facilitates the transport of insecticides through the cuticle, and enhances the effect on the nervous system of pyrethroids.
6. For the treatment of non-residential premises, it is recommended to use Diazinon,Dichlorvos, Malathion with high activity, but also toxicity and an unpleasant odor.

Interesting!

The first insecticide in aerosol packaging was released by the German company Bayer AG. The drug did not enter the Soviet market, but the domestic chemical industry released its analogue, with the same formula under the trade name Dichlorvos. The tool has so firmly entered the life of urban and rural residents that it began to be mentioned in folklore.

Modern Dichlorvos has nothing to do with the means of 50 years ago. The formula has changed, the smell of the spray, but the popularity of the name "dichlorvos" forced to assign it to a modern insecticide.

Sprays and aerosols from fleas create a film on surfaces, which allows you to prolong their action and the fight is conducted in a contact way. The tools used to process apartments do not stain or drip on furniture and textiles, do not ruin carpets, and often have a pleasant smell that has an additional repellent effect - lavender, orange, cedar, etc.

Flea spray requirements

The spray should include an effective complex of insecticides against fleas and other synanthropic insects, and you should also pay attention to other characteristics when choosing a remedy.

A flea spray for humans should be safe, since some products are used only for professional processing, because they require special protective equipment and a long period of “insisting”. In sprays, substances are used that are devoid of these disadvantages. They are safe, when used correctly, do not cause allergic reactions, exclude poisoning. Some types of sprays can be used even in children's rooms.

Interesting!

Sprays have a different effect:

• instant “knockout”;
• prolonged, which contributes to the destruction of the entire population;
• a barrier that does not allow parasites to enter the apartment from the outside - from basements, from attics, from neighboring apartments.

When choosing effective flea control attention should be paid to these characteristics.

Cost-effectiveness is also important when choosing a spray for home treatment. If in order to process the entire apartment you will need to buy many bottles or cylinders of the drug, then it will be unprofitable for the owner to process it himself. Often, expensive drugs are used without observing the recommended dosage, which leads only to the "disease" of insects, without destroying them. As a result, they have offspring resistant to this group of insecticides and able to pass this feature on by inheritance.

When analyzing the existing variety of flea remedies in the apartment, the best sprays were selected that meet the listed requirements.

List of Popular Flea Sprays

A flea spray or aerosol in an apartment can be selected based on the characteristics of the most popular products listed below:

• Control Home Flea & Tick Killer, production of the Hartz company (USA), acts immediately: within 5-10 minutes 98% of adult insects and larvae die. The spray contains tetrachlorvinphos and S-metoprene, which paralyze fleas and ticks, destroy parasite eggs, damaging the juvenile phase of the transition of insects. Effective for 30 days.
• Flee from a Spanish company - the spray contains cyclopentasiloxane and dimethicone, instantly destroys fleas, dust mites, reduces the activity of allergens. Active against insects at all stages of development, does not cause resistance and remains effective for up to 6 weeks. It is economical, since it is enough to spray the product on surfaces that are in direct contact with infected animals, and not in the entire apartment.
• Aerosol Combat Series (Combat Spray) Korean production includes several varieties of spray - Multispray, Superspray and Superspray Plus. Multispray includes permethrin and its isomer tetramethrin, which are capable of killing even flying pests. Supersprays contain cifenotrin and imiprotrin insecticides active against a wide range of synanthropic insects. The drug can be used to process upholstered furniture, textiles, clothes, as it does not stain and does not spoil the fabric.
• Clean house (Russia, Moscow) - the spray contains permethrin isomers: tetramethrin and cypermethrin. The substances decay to inactive under the influence of external factors, after a few hours, the processed apartment is safe for people even without wet processing. Not active against insect eggs.Therefore, re-processing through time is required.
• Flea Remedy Executioner - German drug. Contains fenthion - an effective insecticide. The executioner is produced in the form of a concentrate, which is easy to dilute with water and used in household spray guns. One of the most effective drugs.

  

• Raid - contains an effective and safe insecticide cypermethrin. Available with or without flavoring. Economical, since one bottle of Raid is enough to process about 50 m² at home.
• Raptor - the complex of insecticides cypermethrin, tetramethrin, piperonyl butoxide ensures the destruction of blood-sucking and synanthropic insects. Raptor - An inexpensive, but effective tool that is safe for warm-blooded animals.
• Beaphar - a product of a Dutch company with the same name, contains a complex of insecticides: piperonyl butoxide, metoprene and pyrethrum extract. It can be used both for processing apartments, and for animals - dogs, cats. It remains effective after wet cleaning.
• Butox 50. This is a universal tool used for processing rooms and pets.

Important!

Even if the spray is safe, you should follow safety measures when processing the apartment. Use rubber gloves, a respirator or a bandage. Clothing should protect the entire surface of the body. You can not use funds in the form of a spray for people prone to allergic reactions or suffering from bronchial asthma.

Subject to personal safety rules, flea remedies in the form of a spray do an excellent job with blood-sucking insects, as evidenced by consumer reviews.

Reviews

I advise everyone who is tormented by fleas and other "living creatures" in the apartment to buy an executioner. For the first time, he was advised to me, as an excellent remedy for cockroaches, with which the drug successfully coped. So he took it without hesitation when fleas tumbled out of the basement. What made them leave their homes - I do not know, but after processing I did not see them anymore. Moreover, not only fleas died, but also the moth, which occasionally flew around the apartment. So in one fell swoop he destroyed all the parasites.

Konstantin, Saratov

I live right above the damp and dirty basement, where fleas often move to our apartment. I used to use Gett, but now I switched to Beaphar. Very good drug. Even better than my usual one - it acts faster and longer, even for about 2 months new insects did not creep into my house. I am very glad that I got this spray.

Larisa, Slavyansk

I use Combat in all cases, no matter what insects climb into my house - Combat has never failed. Yes, and I like the smell, not that the old aerosols - deodorize, kill, prevent new pests. Immediately 3 in 1. And in the country I always have a bottle with a tool. He not only exterminates fleas and cockroaches, but also relieves annoying flies and mosquitoes.

Valery, Novomoskovsk