How are bedbugs spread?

Bed bugs, cockroaches, ants are among the most annoying and common house insects. There are a lot of ways how bed bugs are transferred to the apartment, starting with the fact that they can be brought on their own clothes and ending with the purchase of things and furniture, household appliances. Protecting your home from pests is not easy. They penetrate into a room where it is very dirty, damp and in elite country houses. Once in the apartment, they begin breed fast, lay eggs, settle in all the nooks, and at night bite people who are their only source of food.

How the bugs get into the apartment

It is possible to suspect that bed bugs appeared in the house by the characteristic smell, small bloody spots on the sheets, red, itchy spots on the body that remain after the bites. Parasites bring a lot of problems into a person’s life and prevent them from feeling like a master in their home.

How do pests get into an apartment or house:

1. Home bugs can get into the apartment along with the purchase of used household appliances. They are especially attracted to system processors, stoves, refrigerators.
2. Furniture. Bedbugs are transferred from a store specializing in the sale of antique furniture or just used. There, they hide under the upholstery in anticipation of new owners who will become a food source for parasites.
3. Soft children's toys from infected rooms.
4. Insects can be brought home on clothing purchased at Second Hand stores.
5. Books. In order not to bring bugs into your apartment, acquiring second-hand books, you should carefully inspect the pages to identify blood-sucking individuals in them, bed bugs.
6. With the package. Upon receiving the parcel in the mail, it must be subjected to a thorough inspection. Often parasites live in warehouses, which easily penetrate into parcels and thus migrate throughout the country. This is another option for how bedbugs spread.
7. After traveling and overnight in hotels, motels. In order not to bring home bugs, you should not lay out clothes in rooms that are not credible, as well as keep suitcases and bags open.
8. If neighbors have bugs, it is likely that they will soon spread to all nearby apartments. They can penetrate from one room to another through the smallest cracks and ventilation, and in the warm season along the walls of houses. Move bedbugs on clothes Both the owner of the infected home and its visitors can enter another apartment.
   

   

9. Visitors, guests can also bring bugs on their clothes, shoes or in a bag. It is not difficult for an insect to hide in the folds of clothes, pockets. In the same way, “living souvenirs” get after visiting infected apartments, especially after spending the night in them. In order not to bring bugs from the guests, all the clothes that were put on at that time should be hung on a dryer or steam generator.
10. Repairs. If the neighbors began to conduct construction, paintwork, then all the insects that are in their apartment will quickly begin to travel to neighboring apartments.
11. Illiterate pest control in an apartment building often becomes the cause penetration of bedbugs from the neighboring infected premises into the apartment.
12. Housing change. A furniture transport machine can be a source of parasites. In order not to transport bugs with you when moving, you should pack all things well, wrapping them with foil. When moving from an apartment in which bloodsuckers are firmly established, you need to try to move without bedbugs. For this, it is necessary to carefully examine all things, the main thing is to prevent the entry of bugs on them. It is recommended to pre-wash all clothes, bedding, textiles in water above 50 ° C or treat them with a steam generator. Delicate fabrics can be frozen.

If the thermometer column shows above 50 ° C or below 20 ° C, take pillows, blankets, fabric products to the street. High and low temperatures kill parasites at any stage of development. All processed clothing and items should be immediately packed in hermetically sealed bags. Such simple measures will not allow you to transport annoying bugs with things.

Feedback

In the summer I went with my wife to rest in the Crimea. Inexpensively rented a room from the granny. We thought that we did not need the mansions, all the same, we would only come overnight. In the morning we woke up with red spots. After a detailed inspection revealed that it bedbugs. I had to look for new housing. But the main problem was not how to move from an apartment with bugs - we found a small cozy house in a quiet beautiful place very quickly, but that we brought bugs in a suitcase home. They could determine this after 2 months, when chains of bites appeared on the body again.

Artem, Volgograd

Tips to help prevent parasites in your home

To prevent infection of the apartment is problematic, sometimes even impossible. As practice shows, everyone can transfer bugs to the house. It doesn’t matter to pests - cleanly in the apartment or dirty. Having entered the room, having found a source of food, they will no longer want to leave, but will multiply and attack people with rapid speed. But you can create adverse conditions that will help prevent the spread of insects. These include:

• weekly general cleaning;
• ventilate the room twice a day;
• monitor the condition of furniture, clean and wipe;
• creature protective barrier;
• carry out redecorating, gluing wallpaper, closing up cracks in the walls;
• ventilation should be closed with a special mesh;
• the apartment should not be damp and mold.

On a note!

The lack of sunlight and daily airing, dampness, dust, mess, old furniture, dirt makes the apartment an ideal place for living and breeding bugs.

How to stop the reproduction and spread of insects

If it was not possible to prevent the occurrence of bugs and small bloodsuckers were detected, the best option would be to call a pest control for professional processing. In addition, he will give tips on how not to bring home bugs repeatedly.

After processing, you must adhere to some rules:

• carefully inspect purchases from second-hand goods stores;
• Suitcases and travel bags should not be immediately brought into the apartment, it is better to put them on the balcony;
• open parcels and parcels over the bathtub so that there is an opportunity to notice a pest that has fallen;
• periodically apply a special plinth, slit, near the front door bedbug gel or use an insect pencil.

The easiest way to prevent the appearance of parasites in the house than subsequently to be afraid and in every possible way to try get rid of bedbugs.