How to independently bring home bugs in the apartment

Bed bugs - their larvae and eggs

Bedbug Fight

The habitats of bugs in the house

Bedbug Sprays

Personal protective equipment

Folk remedies for bedbugs

 

The problem of how to get bedbugs out of an apartment is faced by both residents of megalopolises and provincial cities. For blood-sucking insects, it does not matter what condition the dwelling is in, the status of its owners, or sanitary conditions. Bed bugs can appear unexpectedly and literally in a few months turn any clean, comfortable apartment into a natural "klopovnik".

Difficulties in removing bugs from the apartment

Bedbugs - small insects with a very flattened body that feed exclusively on blood. The conditions of the apartments are ideal for their living: temperature, humidity are optimal for their life. They are to fly, can't jumpbut move fast enough. The peak activity of parasites occurs in the night, early morning hours, when a person is sleeping soundly. During bite, the bug introduces an anesthetic, due to which the victim does not feel anything while he makes his bloody meal. The interval between feeding adults varies between 7-10 days, therefore, with a little infection, a person for a long time does not suspect the existence of "neighbors".

Insects breed very fast. Males are very “loving” and can make up to 200 mating per day.

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A female needs only one fertilization to be able to put off the eggs throughout his life. On average, the female lives under favorable conditions from 1 year to 1.5 years and during this time she is able to lay 400-500 eggs. To destroy eggs is very problematic, because they are protected by a dense shell that reliably protects them from external influences, including chemical ones.

At the first stages of “settling” domestic bugs into an apartment, parasitizing individuals are usually not found. In the daytime they are skillfully hide in dark, secluded places and do not betray their presence. In most cases, by the time a person notices signs of bugs: brown spots of blood on the bed, chitinous skins, small black excrement, characteristic linear traces of bites, blood-sucking insects managed to multiply and their population can be estimated at hundreds of individuals, which greatly complicates the fight against them. In this case, the question of how to get bedbugs out of the apartment is very acute.

The most useless methods of fighting bugs

Due to ignorance of the intricacies of behavior and physiology of domestic bugs, original methods of removing insects are often used, the effectiveness of which is zero:

1. Leave the room and leave insects on a “starvation diet”. Such a measure will in no way contribute to the removal of bugs. In the absence of food, only part of the population decides to migrate in search of a food base.In most cases, bed bugs are in no hurry to leave their homes and simply fall into a state close to suspended animation, in which they can stay for about a year.
2. Based on the fact that the bugs scatter in a panic when the light is turned on suddenly, some people leave the lighting lamps on for the night. Bloodsuckers cannot be scared by the light of electric lamps, much less to drive them out of the apartment. They quickly adapt to light and will continue their parasitic hunt.
3. The “home slipper” method also will not help to get rid of home bugs. It is likely that in this way it will be possible to slightly reduce the number of insects, but no more.
4. Ceremonies, rituals, conspiracies, sprinkling salt and other dances with tambourines except that they will amuse your household and insects.

Overview of Parasite Killing Methods

There are several ways to quickly and efficiently remove bugs from an apartment, each of them differs in complexity and cost:

• Calling professional pest control will help destroy bugs fast and in most cases forever. Depending on the contamination of the premises, disinsection is carried out in 3 ways: by traditional chemical treatment, hot fog or cold fog. Cost processing apartments in Moscow (one-room) starts from 1200 rubles, in the regions this figure may vary slightly.

  

• Chemical insecticides for independent use with proper use provide high efficiency and are able to remove bugs. It should be remembered that there is no single universal means to expel parasites. Blood-sucking insects adapt very quickly to chemicals and the tool that helped a neighbor on the landing may be completely ineffective in your case. Cost preparations for the destruction of bugs can from several tens of rubles to several hundred.
• Folk methods - a budget option. Reviews on the use of folk remedies for expelling parasites are diametrically opposed. They have the greatest effect as a deterrent of creeping vampires. But they are often used at the beginning of the struggle, when they ask themselves how to independently bring home bugs without resorting to the help of specialized organizations.

Preparing the room for processing

Whatever way, how to independently get the bedbugs out of the apartment, has not been chosen, the room is necessary prepare for pest control. First of all, it is necessary to determine the sources of infection and potentially dangerous places from which parasites can appear. Despite the fact that bedbugs are able to migrate over long distances, they prefer to live near their victims, namely in sleeping places. Therefore, in the first place, it is necessary to carefully examine the mattress, bed, sofa and all the spaces adjacent to them.

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If the bugs got into the apartment with furniture, then the original source must be sought in the pieces of furniture. It often happens that people handle sofa and a bed, but they don’t even think about the fact that the bugs are teeming with the recently acquired antique chair.

Insect nests are a cluster of adults, larvae, excrement, chitinous skins that nymphs dump during molting. Detect nests it is possible not only in sleeping places, but also on the walls, on the floor, especially for parasites, peeled wallpapers, linoleum that has departed, parquet are especially fond of.

Often parasites are found in sockets, radios, digital and household appliances, under skirting boards, in furniture joints, on the back walls of cabinets and cabinets. With a large number of bugs in the apartment, their eggs may be in clothesshoes. The places of localization of bugs can be seen in the photo.

Having determined the extent of infection, you can begin to prepare the apartment for disinfestation.The process is very laborious, but in order to get bed bugs, you have to work hard:

1. Remove all bedding from the bed, wash them in water with a temperature of at least 50 ° C, iron, pack them in a bag.
2. Wash all clothes that are allowed to wash in hot water and pack them in sealed bags. You can kill all living individuals and eggs using a steam generator. Dry clothes should be given out of materials for which high temperatures are unacceptable. It is imperative that every wardrobe item is handled.
3. Put the shoes in bags, pour in them an odorless insecticidal agent and carefully tie.
4. Perform similar manipulations with soft toys, pillows, blankets.
5. Before disinsection, move the furniture away from the walls to provide access to the skirting boards.
6. Food, dishes are carefully packed.
7. Processing should be done in all rooms at the same time.

Self-destruction of bugs using chemicals

In the modern market of insecticides, a huge amount of funds is presented that will help quickly and permanently remove parasites from your apartment. The choice of drugs is determined by the infection of the apartment, the presence of allergic reactions in households, living in the house of small children, pets.

Aerosols and sprays They are convenient to use, have a local effect on parasites and their nests. The action of aerosols is based on the inhibition of the nervous system of the insect, which leads to paralysis and death. Most often used for processing upholstered furniture, carpets. The most popular aerosol preparations: Raptor, Raid, DichlorvosMicrophos, Kombat. The latter is equipped with additional nozzles for hard-to-reach spots.

Powders called dusty, and crayons cannot be called effective remedies for bedbugs. Their action is based on direct contact with a bloodsucker and at the same time they cannot affect the entire population. Therefore, there is no reason to say that bugs can be brought out forever with the help of crayons. They have the greatest effect as prophylactic and significantly reduce the chances of crawling parasites entering the apartment.

The most popular drugs in this group:

• crayon Mashenka;
• Fenaxin;
• Fas take;
• Clean house.

One of the best ways to independently remove home bugs, pest controllers consider chemicals designed for wet processing. In this way, it is possible to achieve the penetration of the active substance in the most inaccessible places. These preparations are sold in dry form or are a concentrate that is diluted with water before use according to the instructions.

The most effective insecticides:

• Get;
• Foresight;
• Fufanon;
• Executioner;
• Cucaracha;
• Karbofos.

Important!

Use insecticides with extreme caution and compliance with all safety rules. Disinfestation work must be carried out in a respirator, rubber gloves, a protective suit. As the latter, you can use a common raincoat.

During the procedure, people, pets should not be in the room. Despite the fact that only low-toxic drugs are sold in household chemical stores, neglect of the rules of personal protection can negatively affect the state of health.

At the end of pest control in the apartment close all windows and leave it for several hours. Wet cleaning is not provided for 3-5 days, with the exception of items with which households are in direct contact. Most of the preparations do not affect the bedbug eggs, therefore, it is necessary to be ready for re-processing after 10-12 days, when larvae appear from the surviving eggs. Only systematically destroying the emerging offspring, you can clean the apartment from bugs and forget about their existence.

Folk methods against bedbugs

There are many folk tips on how to permanently bring out bedbugs at home. The main advantages of folk remedies are recognized as their low toxicity, low cost of ingredients and safety. Alas, not everything is so simple. Those products that are characterized by low toxicity are not able to destroy bugs and can only scare them away for a short time. A number of alternative drugs that really have a destructive effect cannot be called safe. For example, the same kerosene is not only characterized by a specific stable odor, but also has a high combustibility.

Folk remedies for scaring away bugs consist mainly of herbs, aromatic oils and liquids with a strong odor.

• Sagebrush, tansy branches, cloves, leaves of marsh rosemary are laid out around the perimeter of the room and in the habitats of bloodsuckers.
• Table vinegar - a kind of "hit" among traditional drugs. It is diluted with water in equal proportions and the resulting liquid is treated on all surfaces in an apartment or house, including furniture. When using such a product, you need to be prepared for the fact that you will have to inhale fragrant vinegar, and with prolonged use this fragrance will penetrate all clothing.
• You can get bugs out of the apartment with kerosene. 20 g of kerosene, 20 g of turpentine are mixed with 200 mg of water and a small amount of liquid soap. The resulting mixture processes upholstered furniture, cabinet furniture, floors, skirting boards, and nests themselves. After using the product, due to its strong smell, not only insects, but also households begin to disappear.
• Freezing and heating are the safest folk methods that allow you to bring out bedbugs. When lowering the thermometer column below -15 ° C, all things and interior items are taken out to the street. In severe frost or at temperatures above 50 ° C, both adults and their offspring die. So be careful, if your neighbors began to actively take out the contents of their apartments on the street, then they probably got bugs and they are trying to bring them out in an unpretentious proven way.

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