Many people seriously believe that the bugs are infested in the house due to the uncleanliness of the owners: due to the fact that the premises are not cleaned, a lot of garbage, food waste, unwashed clothes. If you think so too, then we hurry to disappoint you - all this has no (at least, direct) relation to the appearance bed bugs in the apartment. These insects start up even in the most comfortable, respectable and clean apartments, and it does not matter to them that alcoholics live in a house or a pious young couple.
Interestingly, even at the end of the past and the beginning of this century, at the annual entomological conferences devoted to harmful insects that plague people in modern cities, there was not a single report on bedbugs. And already in 2008, eight speakers from the prosperous countries of the world spoke about this problem.Now it's 2015, and the problem is as urgent as ever.
For example, in London alone, about 80% of homes and apartments have ever suffered from bed bug infestation. In sunny Florida, more than half of the houses were treated at least once from these insects. There is even an opinion that today humanity is facing a real threat of a pandemic bug infestation.
And one of the reasons why these parasites start in our homes and spread so quickly everywhere is the active migration of people, including the fashion for traveling to exotic countries. In the latter case, insects are brought by tourists in personal belongings from hotels and inns.
At the same time, bedbugs absolutely “do not care” about the sanitary condition of any premises. The only important thing for them is the presence in these rooms of a source of fresh blood - human ...
Where do bed bugs come from?
So, for the appearance of bedbugs in the house, the transfer of biological material into the room must take place: these can be eggs, larvae, or adult parasites.
Most often, bugs are turned up in an apartment, penetrating into a house with used furniture, bedding, clothes and household items when moving and moving things from a room infected with bugs to a clean one.
On a note
Always carefully inspect the purchased furniture and appliances for the presence of eggs and excrement of bedbugs. Especially if purchased items that were in use.
It should be borne in mind that bugs are able to live without food for about six months. Therefore, they can migrate over long distances, populate even non-residential premises and wait in the wings.
According to numerous reviews of the victims, the bugs in their apartment started up after being hounded by insects in neighboring apartments. This is a common phenomenon that is difficult for an unprepared person to resist.
With a massive infection of the house, bugs can crawl along the outer walls of the dwelling and crawl into the room through windows.
Tip:
Meet the neighbors and know who lives in frankly dysfunctional apartments. Use insecticidal pencils to handle the external slopes of the windows and the front door box, folk remedies (wormwood, tansy) and scaring sections to protect the ventilation ducts from penetration house bugs.
During daylight, the bugs hide in secluded and warm places. Such places can be, for example, a computer, TV, laptop or microwave.
Often, domestic bugs start up after the arrival of guests living in an infected apartment: guests can bring parasites on their clothes and shoes. In addition, insects are easy to bring into the house in their own pockets, returning from the same guests, if the owners live in the Klopovnik and do not know or do not tell you about it.
Insects can be brought from tourist trips (from infected hotels), brought with any extraneous things. It is enough to bring one adult female, and it can be expected that bed bugs will be introduced throughout the house.
Tip:
Do not stay in cheap hotels and guesthouses while traveling. Wash all items immediately upon arrival.
Between the neighboring apartments, the parasites spread through the ventilation ducts, cavities in the walls of the house, cracks in the ceilings. Having a flat body, which due to chitinous rings can shrink and stretch, bugs can squeeze into the narrowest slits and holes.
Often the bugs are infested, running from the neighbors, in whose apartments a pest was carried out the day before, especially if it was not sufficiently effective.
Only in extremely rare cases, bugs are infested in an apartment, penetrating it into animals.Parasites attack cats and dogs only when they cannot reach humans for too long.
Known funny cases of delivery of bugs from elite stores with unworn clothing and new furniture from the warehouse. Insects can get into a store or warehouse from a visitor or worker living in the Klopovnik, as well as from nearby living quarters.
Habitat and lifestyle of bedbugs in the house
Most often, bedbugs infest primarily near the place where the person is sleeping. This is a bed, sofa, stitches and folds of the mattress, slits for plinths and wallpaper.
Sometimes bloodsuckers settle in other places:
- for paintings and carpets on the walls;
- in the folds of tapestries;
- in sockets;
- in the system units of computers, in the housings of household appliances;
- in unused clothes and shoes.
Domestic bugs are mostly active at night, but can attack in the early morning, and their livelihoods largely depend on the person’s presence in bed. Insects are attracted by body odor and body heat, as well as exhaled air carbon dioxide (by the way, the work of some bed bug traps is based on this principle).
The insect sucking apparatus consists of two tubes.One of them he pierces the skin and injects special substances that prevent blood from clotting and anesthetize the bite site. Another tube parasite sucks blood.
Typically, the meal takes from 3 to 10 minutes. After some time, the anesthetic action is terminated, and itching begins to disturb the person, the skin turns red, and blisters appear.
Waking up and finding chains of bites on themselves, in most cases, people are far from immediately aware that bugs are getting in their apartment and something needs to be done about it urgently. As a rule, everyone is trying to write off on allergies or mosquitoes. But the bugs ... How is this possible, because the 21st century is in the yard ... They live like that until one day they find a nest of parasites or see an adult insect on a white sheet.
It should be in the house to appear one bug, and we can expect that very soon the number of parasites will reach inconceivable sizes. It also happens that a person enters into a long-empty housing in the autumn and does not notice the small bloodsuckers in the neighborhood, because they hibernated. Perhaps the entry of new owners of the apartment was preceded by the sanitary treatment of the room, as a result of which all insects were not destroyed (there were eggs, larvae or isolated individuals in the most secluded corners).
After some time the insects wake up, begin to feed and multiply very quickly.
Checking the premises for the presence of parasites
Suspect the fact that in the housing of the bedbugs can be on three main grounds:
- bites on the skin after sleep;
- the presence of insects and their larvae in the room;
- characteristic smell of sour berries or brandy;
- the emergence of excrement or remnants of chitinous cover of insects under the beds and near the baseboards.
The first signs that bugs are bred at home are bites that itch in the morning and look like small red dots lined up in chains of 4-5 pieces. The hands, neck, shoulders and lower parts of the body are most often affected.
After carefully examining the bed and the whole room, especially next to the bed, you can usually find insects, their larvae and eggs, as well as chitinous shells in crevices, folds of the mattress and linen, behind plinths, carpets and paintings, near outlets. On the sheets, small red spots can appear in places where a person tossed over at night and accidentally pressed the blood-sucking bug into the bed.
The fact that the bugs were started at home may also be an unpleasant smell of almonds or brandy in the room.Some people of the old Soviet school this is especially well known.
If you still have no confidence, you can also try to catch the parasites by making traps of duct tape. The tape is glued on the edges of the mattress, on the backs of the bed, and inspected in the morning for the presence of sticking insects.
If the bedbugs are supposedly wound up in the couch, then you can start an alarm clock and turn on the light at about 3 o'clock in the morning, after which you can inspect the bed linen (of course white). Surely, bloodsuckers will be found on sheets and a blanket.
Ways and means of bedbug removal
As a rule, the following bedbug control methods are used:
- chemical - with the help of powerful insecticides;
- thermal - using hot steam, raising the temperature in the room, pouring boiling water over the nests;
- using traps;
- folk ways to deal with bedbugs;
- as well as calling a pest control service.
You can destroy parasites on your own with the help of special insecticides. Very effective, for example, are such drugs as Get, Delta Zone, Micro Xulsat, Hangman and others.
Fighting with high temperatures is also possible, but usually it can be very difficult to warm the whole room to a high temperature,as well as to freeze it (do not forget about radiators, which can burst). The use of hot steam from bedbugs is effective only with very careful processing of all furniture, and even in this case it is better to combine this method with the simultaneous use of insecticides.
Folk ways to deal with bedbugs in the house today can be considered hopelessly outdated. It is difficult to imagine that a modern person will spray turpentine or kerosene in his apartment, risking damage to furniture, plastic surfaces, and carpets. And just to breathe it all at the risk of making a fire or an explosion is a very dubious pleasure.
Perhaps the most optimal solution in case of bedbugs at home is to call a team of specialists who use the same chemical method of baiting. At first glance, this may seem more expensive than self-processing, but in this way you will save your time and health. In addition, there is a high probability that the bugs will start again - in this case, under the guarantee, you will be able to receive repeated processing of the premises for free.
It is useful to keep in mind that bugs are often infested in an apartment, penetrating into it from their neighbors.Therefore, before calling the exterminators, it is worth finding out who else in the house suffers from parasites and to conduct collective processing.
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Very detailed article. Thank!
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Thanks for the article, I will continue to be careful.
Wonderful article ... Thanks
Today I threw out a sofa and an armchair, raised the floors, and started flashing it with chemistry.
Today I have processed everything with dichlorvos, it also helps.
Advise what is better?
Karbofos well helps.
Previously, washed with hands, soap - there were no bugs! Now everyone has washing machines, powders ... Bedbugs, just trouble. Such impression that specifically infect. At the same time glue ads: processing from bedbugs.
Anonymous, talk nonsense. Bugs have always been. Zaseratsya just do not, well, and the neighbors so that not assholes were) Here are the people, if only to complain about the progress)) So live in a hut, and wash in a trough with sand. And you will be happy without bedbugs!
Thank you for the article. He lived and did not huddle in his dorm room for many years. And suddenly in one night came the hordes of these creatures from the neighbors above.I woke up at night, I didn’t touch my mind. In my life, and I am 63 years old, I have never seen such a thing. Swarms of bastards crawling on the wall above and I'm covered in bugs. Of course, the rest of the night was already awake. In the morning to the store for dichlorvos. Two bottles poured into the room. In the evening he returned, it seems, everything is fine. And at night they are here cat here. Now I am hounding, and I sleep only during the day.
Changed the whole way of life. At night, at the computer and press down at the same time these creatures, and in the afternoon I sleep. Melatonin, which is produced by the body at night and is very useful for it, is not produced. Then he learned that these creatures are like insects, carriers of many bad things. The result - after a month and a half, the body simply began to decay. Nothing hurts, and everything is worse and worse. Guys, beware!
When will they come up with a remedy for bed bugs in Russia?
And what if the walls are covered with clapboard? Is all rip off?
I accidentally found in my apartment bugs and, of course, immediately understood where they came from. In the next apartment there lived drunkards, they dragged everything from the trash can, and they had these creatures. I was worried that they, too, would appear. The neighbor (by the way, young) died suddenly, and no one was left in the apartment, so they climbed up.I almost got a heart attack when I discovered this creature under the picture in the room. I went over everything, pushed everything away, climbed dichlorfos into each slot. I go all day and watch if there is no creep. But while only 3 days have passed, I don’t notice bites anywhere on the body. Oh, God, help me ...
Get a lizard or iguana. Bedbugs on the same day will be gone. They are afraid of lizards.
Yes, we are also faced with such a disaster, where they came from, I'll never know. The apartment is new, stretch ceilings, the house is built on the site of an old barrack. When we entered, my legs seemed to be biting someone, I thought - allergic to building materials, still the cheapest, and then it came to ... They called the service, not a fig, but now I will try karbofos myself.
Thank you very much for your advice.
I'm already fed up with these bugs, I have been hounding them for the third time and all to no avail.
She rented a guest apartment through the Bucking. After reading the reviews of people, she was horrified! People write that there are bedbugs in the apartment. It is impossible to cancel the reservation, otherwise the total cost of the reservation will be written off from the card. How not to bring this abomination home and avoid their bites?
Dear Janet, what money will be withdrawn? Let it be removed, you are talking about something, it is impossible to corrode them, then you can spend 50 thousand and throw all the furniture out of the house. We have been living on the street for the second week already - we hate, we hate, and they bite. All sofas carried out, the furniture is wet in the rain. Of course, then her only dump. Things are erased at 90 degrees. How much water, light, all things on the street in the packs are raw. What are you talking about, yes damn it this money.
Winter seems to be starting. My friend froze his two-story cottage for a week at 20-30 degrees frost. All windows and doors opened (water poured from pipes, naturally). And everything, all these herbs died ...
Of course, this topic was useful to me, but why insert so many pictures of these lousy people, and even close-ups? Oppositely.
Yes, articles about bedbugs are simply disgusting to read because of the abundance of close-up photos of these insects. Nothing but disgust, these photos do not cause, why poke them under the nose of readers is not clear.
On the topic: the Delta Zone tool helped me a lot, the first time, but I just drowned the apartment in this liquid.
You can fight for a long time with the bugs themselves. Simply call the service. For an hour and a half, the aunt has processed the three-room apartment. Grass Sinusanom. Now you can live in peace.
Also tortured these bugs already.