How to determine if there are bed bugs at home

The problem of bugs in the apartment is faced not only by residents of private houses, but also by high-rise buildings. They don’t care about the condition of your home, clean or dirty, damp or dry, wet or cold - they appear everywhere. Sometimes they can even start in apartments renovated and in perfect cleanliness. It is necessary to answer the main questions: how to find out if there are bugs in the apartment, why they appeared there, their favorite places and how to remove pests from the premises.

Are there bed bugs at home

Home or bed bug leads an exclusively nocturnal lifestyle. Since ancient times, he firmly settled in houses. The parasite cannot flytherefore quickly moves on small legs. Often there are disputes about what bugs eat. They feed exclusively on human blood and domestic animals mainly at night, and during the day they hide in secluded darkened places.

If you suspect that bedbugs are wound up, you must conduct a thorough inspection of the room, guided by the tips below:

1. The first sign is an unpleasant odor. Specific aromathat parasites secrete to attract females can be felt when they have reached a large number. Some owners say that the smell of fermented berries begins to hover in the room, while others feel cognac notes.
2. Body bites - Another symptom of the appearance of bloodsuckers. If you woke up in the morning and wanted to scratch your arm or leg, and the cause of the itching was a slight reddening on the skin, then bedbugs were in bed. A swelling appears at the site of the bite with a pronounced puncture point in the center. A distinctive feature of bug attacks is the characteristic linear chains. The bug does not bite in one place, but makes several punctures at a distance of 3-4 cm from each other.
   

   

3. Spots of blood on the sheets. After the insect drinks enough blood, bed sizes increase, and he becomes very vulnerable. Therefore, when a person is turned over in a dream, a well-fed individual is often crushed.
4. Carefully you need to examine all the sleeping places in the house: upholstered furniture sofas, armchairs and beds. Raise the mattress. Upholstery should be perfectly clean, without black dots. You need to check the bugs on furniture, especially on the back of the cabinets. TO favorite habitats Interior items also apply.
5. In the period of growing up larvae several times molt and periodically change their carapace, therefore, a characteristic feature that will help to recognize bedbugs is black chitinous scales on furniture and the floor. Nymphs are not distinguished by a high speed of movement, therefore, finds in the form of a discarded chitinous cover indicate a close place for the accumulation of ectoparasites.
6. It is necessary to raise the carpets and carefully check all the places under the furniture, it is in the dark corners that they hide bedbugs breed.

Even the cleanest house or apartment is not immune to parasites. They get into the apartment in several ways:

• on clothes, in things the field of visiting infected places;
• move from neighbors or through open ventilation;
• with furniture or clothes.

Important!

Before purchasing a furniture set, while still in the store, carefully examine your purchase.Need to check bedbugs on the couch, sometimes the sellers themselves are not aware that pests can occur in their premises.

What methods will help identify bugs

It can be difficult to detect the presence of pests: there is no smell, no traces on the bed, only the places of bites let you know about the presence of parasites. Identify bloodsuckers will help folk tricks.

Eight glasses

To determine the presence of bugs in the apartment:

• Eight plastic cups must be purchased at the hardware store, four should be large, and four a little smaller;
• put one glass in another, treat the edges with a piece of sandpaper;
• set them under the bed legs;
• pour a little vegetable oil and sprinkle with talcum powder.

When the insect tries to climb into the bed at night on the leg, it will fall into the prepared trap.

Feedback

In the mornings, she began to find on the body small red spots that itch. It was not possible to detect bloodsuckers in the apartment. I bought a special trap for insects in the store, in the afternoon some small bug got into it, I thought a bug. I read how to recognize domestic bugs, but it turned out that it was not him. Found on the forum a way with glasses. I set it for the night, and in the morning I found as many as seven bugs in them.

Julia, Rostov

Plate method

Lubricate the outside of disposable plastic plates with oil or greasy cream, pour talcum powder inside. Put a plate near the bed. A bloodsucker, falling into talc, then will not be able to get out of it.

Feedback

When cleaning the house, I noticed small, black scales, where they come from, I did not understand right away. I found a lot of information on the Internet, it turned out that these are signs of the appearance of bugs. I put talcum powder in a plate, in the morning I counted about twenty pieces. Now you have to do the processing throughout the house to get rid of bedbugs.

Elena, Moscow

Early rise

This method will help determine if there are bed bugs in the bed. To do this, make the bed a white sheet and go to bed, having previously set an alarm for four in the morning. Having woken up on the alarm clock, carefully check the sheet for the presence of small blood spots, if you are lucky, you can find a small number of insects.

Using these methods, sometimes it is possible to find a single individual, which makes you wonder if the bug can be alone in the apartment. To do this, you need to carefully examine it, identify the female or male. They can be distinguished by the shape of the body, in females it is round and convex, which indicates the presence of eggs in her body. If a female is found, then it is likely that she is not the only representative of the "bloodthirsty" family.

When developing a strategy, how to get parasites out of the apartment, the question arises whether bugs can only be in one room. More often than not, because insects live at lightning speed throughout the room, their goal is to produce as many offspring as possible under favorable conditions.

Bed bugs in bed and in the house - this is a real grief for the owners. Restless sleep, anxiety, the feeling that someone is constantly crawling over you, does not allow you to completely relax and rest after a hard day. Determining a bed bug is very simple, just a small observation is enough. If the suspicions are confirmed, urgent measures must be taken to killing bugs.