What could be the reasons for the appearance of bedbugs in the apartment?

Bed bugs often even appear in modern residential buildings, which are equipped with all the benefits of civilization. Of course, neat and clean owners are puzzled why the parasites chose to live in their apartment, where there is no debris, dirt or pets. And how did these parasites enter the shelter? ..

In fact, in the case of bedbugs, it makes no difference how carefully the cleanliness of the house is maintained. The main and only goal and sacrifice of bed bugs is a person (sometimes small animals), so they can settle wherever people spend the night.

To avoid infection, you must always be alert and carefully observe the smallest changes that occur in the apartment. It will also be useful to periodically carry out prevention and apply an insecticide around the perimeter of possible places of entry of insects,communicate with neighbors and pay attention to the state of their apartment.

In addition, the disappearance bed bugs in the apartment it may be accidental, and here it depends only on the owners of the premises whether they will allow such an accident. Therefore, it is important to understand how bedbugs can appear in an apartment in order to be able to protect themselves from parasites at the right time in time.

 

Ways to bedbugs in an apartment

The question of how bedbugs appear in an apartment is difficult to answer unambiguously. It all depends on which floor the dwelling is located on, whether there are parasites among the neighbors, whether the owners have been driving on trains or other people's cars lately. There are a lot of ways for bedbugs to get into the house, so the causes of bedbugs in an apartment can be completely different.

Most often, bedbugs come from neighboring rooms, which is especially important for old houses. Insects can crawl through damage to wall ceilings, crevices, or on the outside wall of a house.

Also, bedbugs often travel through the ventilation shafts. Bed bugs can go without food for a long time (up to several weeks) with preservation of activity, therefore long transitions are not a problem for them.

In addition, the body structure of the bug and its small dimensions greatly contribute to the penetration into very small holes and crevices.

If the house is located in a rural area, then bedbugs can often turn to people from small farm animals, on which they parasitized. Of course, the thick skin of rabbits or goats is not as attractive to these blood-sucking insects as is human.

You can “pick up” a bug and move it to your apartment after spending the night in a new place. This can be either a foreign hotel, a hotel in another city, or an apartment of friends, as well as a train or station.

The size of the bug is small, so even if an insect does not accidentally manage to crawl into the shelter before a person gets up and puts on, no one will notice his presence on the shirt or pants.

The individual causes of bedbugs can be quite original and even unpredictable.

• Appliances. Bedbugs love to hide in secluded places, protected from bright daylight and having a heat source. Often, bugs for a day get into working computer system blocks, and if such a block is moved for repairs or for permanent work in a new apartment, parasites also penetrate it.

Feedback:

“I had bugs brought by one of the clients who brought a sistemnik for repair. If I dismantled it right away and saw these creatures, I would have thrown both the sistemnik and the client. And so he stood the night under the table, and the bugs scattered around the apartment. It was necessary a few weeks later, when they began to bite, fill the apartment with the Executioner, and then advise the Executioner and the client himself ... "

Oleg, St. Petersburg

• Another reason for the appearance of bedbugs in an apartment can be bringing them into the house on their clothes. Bed bugs can not bite through clothes, but it is very convenient to hide in it. It is not always possible to notice the bloodsucker because of its tiny size. Therefore, it is very likely, having been in an apartment inhabited by bedbugs, to bring one or several parasites to your home. The reasons for the appearance of bed bugs may be the purchase of contaminated clothes, which, however, happens quite rarely.
• One of the most frequent causes of bedbugs in an apartment is new or old furniture brought to the house. New pieces of furniture brought from the store are rarely contaminated — insects in the store simply have nothing to eat, but such cases are also possible (for example, bugs on furniture from the Ikea store).Much more often, the habitat for bedbugs is furniture bought by hand and already used. Bedbugs inhabit its internal surfaces, cracks. You need to carefully check the furniture before buying, and in the first place - the middle.

Feedback:

“If they knew that we would bring this stuff with the furniture, they would not even have bothered at that warehouse. I never thought that bugs in furniture from Ikea can be. But as we understood, everything was clean in the store, and it was the chest of drawers from the warehouse that was infected. I don’t know if they treat them with something or not, but even such cool furniture can be contaminated. In short, before buying, inspect everything carefully. "

Inga, Stavropol

• Pets, birds. Bedbugs can parasitize bats, birds, hamsters and rats, if they are not very long and thick coat of wool. Bedbugs do not drink the blood of cats or dogs, because their skin is too dense for these insects. For the same reason, they do not parasitize on cattle.
• Bedbugs can appear in the apartment along with a random person. If there is a person in the house who lives in an infected room, then he may well carry a bug on his clothes.It happens that after repairing the apartment, the owners discover a population of bedbugs “left” by the craftsmen. Bedbugs are very fond of a large crowd of people, so they often live in cabins, dormitories. If a team hired for repair lives in such conditions, it is very likely that the bugs will try to move with their help.

Feedback:

“After the departure of the Tajiks, I had bugs. And so much that I thought, the repair will have to be redone. It seems that these guys do not bother bugs at all. Probably live in their mattresses. It was necessary to flood the apartment with Karbofos for another week before the tenants could be let in ... "

Alexandra, Moscow

 

Infection of an apartment with bedbugs from the point of view of a biologist

Bed bugs are also dangerous because they multiply very quickly and settle around the house. Even if only one female was brought into the dwelling, she can become the ancestor of the new population. How is this possible?

Female bugs have the ability to preserve fertilized cells in their body for up to several months. This means that she may well wait for life-friendly conditions and only then proceed to the birth of offspring. At this stage, the male is no longer needed, since he made his contribution earlier.

One female with a frequency of every few days lays 5-6 eggs, producing up to 500 descendants in her life. Considering the fact that young bugs can breed only a month after hatching from eggs, their number in an apartment is growing exponentially.

While the population is small, bed bugs occupy a very small area in the apartment. They can live, for example, between the seams of a mattress or on the back wall of a sofa.

When the number of insects increases, we can expect them to settle in all secluded places. Most likely, the parasites will be found on the bed frame, in the couch, behind the cabinets, in household appliances and behind the paintings.

If the situation becomes critical, and the population has grown enormously, the insects are looking for ways to expand their possessions. They can begin to visit their neighbors' apartments, and eventually new colonies will appear there.

Reproduction of bedbugs is incredibly fast. In just a few weeks, the number of insects can increase many times over. Especially this contributes to a good microclimate of the apartment - a comfortable for living humidity, warmth.

Bedbugs lay eggs year-round, but under poor environmental conditions this process stops,to then resume with the same power.

 

Signs of bedbugs in the apartment

There are several characteristic signs that indicate the appearance of harmful insects in the apartment. Also, these signs help to determine what exactly the bugs, and not fleas or other living creatures, are:

• The characteristic smell of spoiled cognac, which has a secret secreted by adult bugs.
• Restless sleep at night, sensations of itching and crawling of insects on the body. The next morning - a large number of bites in open places in the form of tracks.
• Brown specks of blood on bedding. After a bedbug bite, the blood does not coagulate immediately and can stain the sheets. In addition, the full bugs themselves can be crushed by a man tossing and turning.
• The faeces of bedbugs in the form of dark spots in the corners of the apartment and under the beds. They may look like poppy seeds.
• Discarded after molting chitinous cover of insects. It is he who catches the eye first when inspecting an infected bed.

If at least some signs of the presence of bedbugs in the apartment, you need to immediately engage in the search and destruction of parasites. Fighting them is far from easyhow to prevent the appearance of bedbugs in the apartment, and every day of delay will require great efforts in the fight against an increasing number of bloodsuckers.

 

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