Aerosol and spray from bugs are fundamentally different from each other not much: both of them are a liquid solution of an insecticidal substance that, when sprayed indoors, gets into the respiratory tract of the bugs or on the surface with which insects will come in contact.
Sprays and aerosols from bugs differ from each other in the form of release and the degree of readiness for use:
- Sprays - in the ready-to-use form are usually not sold, but are concentrates packed in small bottles of 50-100 ml (for domestic use) and cans (for industrial use). To treat the room, such a concentrate must be diluted with water and sprayed using special devices. In everyday life, simple atomizers from household chemicals are used for this, and in professional services, cold mist generators and aerosol plants are used.
- Bed bugs aerosols are insecticide solutions that have already been diluted to the desired concentration, are poured under high pressure in cylinders for spraying with a valve. These tools operate on the “buy and work” principle and do not require any prior training.
Many sprays from bedbugs are the means of professional pest control. They are used in SES, in insect control services, in agriculture. As a rule, they are more effective and economical than aerosols, because they use the most effective insecticides without adjusting for safety and ease of their use.
Aerosols against bedbugs are almost always household products that are made with ease of use and maximum safety when used by a non-professional. These tools are best suited for breeding bedbugs in houses and apartments by the residents themselves.
However, today there are many sprays designed for use by the owners of the premises, as well as aerosols for professionals. Of all this diversity for each particular situation, you need to be able to choose the most appropriate means, as let us and talk in more detail.
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“We had bugs only once in a rented apartment.Better, of course, with such no longer occur. When I once saw them, I could not sleep for several nights. We are probably all the mistakes that could have been made. They began to poison Mashenka and some kind of powder, they thought to get rid of them with a little blood. All these pencils and powders do not work against bedbugs, at best they give a break for a couple of days. The only thing that can be safely removed is a good aerosol. We managed to remove all bugs with the Raptor from crawling insects, but at the same time we took 3 balloons to the living room, to the nursery 2. The strangest thing was that the bugs climbed out of the unpredictable places. For example, they were in the computer of the son and on the bookshelf, so everything really needed to be processed in the apartment. ”
Tatyana, Voronezh
Means for professional and home use: features and characteristics
Both among sprays and aerosols there are preparations that are targeted at users with different levels of training.
For those who have never before poisoned bedbugs independently, from sprays you can pay attention, for example, to Get concentrates, Hangman, Dobrohim Micro, Delta Zone and some others, and from aerosols to Raptor, Combat,Dichlorvos-Neo, Clean House ... All these tools are intended for home use, and when working in accordance with the instructions are safe enough.
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“We had to poison Goethe with bugs, because there were too many of them and there was a risk that the ordinary Combat could not cope. We bought a bottle in the online store, since it came to us in two days. One such bottle is enough for the whole apartment, if properly diluted. We did not have a sprayer, so we had to buy a new one in the garden shop. I wonder how bedbugs feel this stuff. I just started to process the baseboard on the one hand, and they already started climbing out on the other, and there were so many of them that I was surprised that we didn’t suffer so much from them. We specifically decided for two days to go to the country, so that the apartment stood for this time and the effect was more pronounced. But when we returned, there was a real trash in the rooms. Dead bugs lay everywhere, even in the kitchen and in the bathroom. Twice I had to shake out the bag from the vacuum cleaner, until all of them were removed, and then for another couple of hours they washed out the apartment and washed all their clothes. In general, the geth from bedbugs works great, but you need to spend time and energy on such a struggle. ”
Arkady, Kaluga
Professional tools require compliance with enhanced safety measures at work, but extremely effective. Such means include, for example, Tetrix, Sinusan, Klopoveron. To use them without training is rather risky, but in most cases they guarantee removal of bugs at a time.
Bedbug sprays: range of products, application rules and effectiveness
Spray bugs apply a wide range of modern high-performance insecticides. Malathion, permethrin and its derivatives (cypermethrin, deltamethrin, tetramethrin), chlorpyrifos, fenthion, piperonyl butoxide, etc. are the most popular among them. All these substances affect the nervous system of bugs and lead to rapid paralysis and death of the parasite.
Some of the sprays are not commercially available, and only special pest control services are used. Such, for example, Klopoveron - it is produced in the form of powder, which must be diluted in water for use.
Of the same drugs that can be bought in stores or online, users most often buy:
- Hangman - German concentrate for spray, sold in small bottles of 70 rubles per bottle.The main active ingredient is insecticide fenthion. To process a one-room apartment, you will need to buy 15-20 bottles, the contents of each of which is diluted with half a liter of water and sprayed on a surface through which a bugs can move.
- Tetrix - one of the most powerful sprays, intended, generally speaking, for professional treatment of premises. One 250 ml bottle is enough to kill bedbugs in two 2-room apartments. The drug has a very strong and unpleasant smell, the apartment after its use should be carefully aired. In general, it is not recommended to use this drug to non-professionals.
- Cucaracha is an analogue of Tetrix, adapted for home use. However, the strong unpleasant smell of the original drug has been preserved.
- Get is a microencapsulated chlorpyrifos-based product that retains high efficacy for several weeks after application to the surface. It has a contact effect and destroys even those bugs that simply run over the already dried drug. It is odorless and very convenient to use.
- Sinuzan is another drug, more oriented for use by professional disinsection services. Smells disgustingly and in terms of efficiency can be compared with Tetrix.
- Karbofos - one of the most ancient and well-known drugs for the cultivation of water. It is realized both in liquid form and in the form of powder for dissolution. It has a contact action and destroys both adult bugs and their eggs. Malathion is a very inexpensive and affordable drug. After surface treatment for a long time retain an unpleasant smell.
Concentrates for sprays before use must be diluted with water in a ratio that is indicated in the instructions. Then the resulting solution is poured into the spray, for example, from the usual means for washing windows and sprayed in places of possible habitat and movement of bedbugs.
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Professional disinsectors pour the finished solution into the cold mist unit and simply fill all the air in the room with the preparation. After that, the tool in any case will settle on all surfaces and penetrate to where hiding bugs.
For household use any insecticidal sprays must be used.a respirator (in extreme cases - a gauze bandage), as well as rubber gloves and a special cap for hair. You can process only the room from which all people and animals are removed. It is advisable to move the furniture away from the walls and remove the carpets from the walls before treating the bugs from the bugs in the room.
After treatment, it is necessary to sustain a pause of several hours in order to allow the spray to act, and then to ventilate the room and carry out a wet cleaning in it.
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“The first time we ran into bedbugs was when we rested with our parents. I do not know how, or their bugs do not bite at all, or they do not feel, but for them these parasites do not seem to exist. And on the very first night they started pestering us. We did not want to spoil our rest and decided to call a pest control. The guys worked well, the bugs were brought out, but I learned from them the name of the drug with which they poison bugs - Tetrix. When the bugs appeared in our new apartment, I decided to slay them myself. Tetrix buy complicated. It is sold in large bottles specifically for disinsectors. Once I found two small bottles, but they were also expensive. But the most unpleasant is its smell. He is really disgusting, even after breeding in water. All the time, while the apartment is being processed and then standing before the cleaning, things are soaked with this stench.But the main thing is that the tool really works. The bugs are dying from him immediately, some do not even have time to get out of the sofa. At the time of cleaning I sent my wife and children to walk to the city, but I myself was hurt and my head ached for a long time. It took all the work a day until I prepared the furniture, processed it, waited a couple of hours, washed the apartment. In general, both in money and in time it is better to call disinsectors ”.
Oleg, St. Petersburg
Aerosols and their effectiveness
In aerosol cans, the insecticide solution is mixed with a liquefied gas, which ensures a constant pressure inside the cylinder, regardless of the amount of the spent product. By the same principle, spray cans with deodorant work - the tube from the valve in them always reaches the bottom of the container, which ensures that only the insecticide solution is captured when the valve itself is pressed.
Due to the fact that aerosols are developed for domestic use, they are usually added various flavors, and insecticides use the most safe for humans. As a result, aerosols from bedbugs are usually inferior in effectiveness to sprays, and in case of severe infection of the premises with bedbugs, treatment from parasites must be carried out repeatedly.
Usually used for bedbugs such aerosols:
- Dichlorvos-Neo and Dichlorvos-Eco.These agents have nothing in common with the traditional Soviet Dichlorvos and contain permethrin and piperonyl butoxide as active substances. The preparations do not have a strong odor and reliably destroy the bugs with the most thorough processing.
- Raptor from crawling insects, having a pleasant smell of mint. Bedbugs usually require at least two treatments with a raptor at an interval of two weeks - this aerosol does not destroy eggs, which is why a few days after the first treatment in the apartment there appear small larvae of bugs.
- There is also an aerosol Raptor for professional destruction of bedbugs, oriented, despite its name, for domestic use. Its effectiveness is also not too high.
- Combat from bedbugs - more or less effective means, produced in two versions - with the smell of mint and lemon flavor.
The treatment of the room with aerosols is carried out in the same way as when using sprays. When working with these tools, people and animals are also better removed from the apartment.
Since aerosols from bedbugs are initially created with an emphasis on minimal human toxicity, it is recommended to use them for the treatment of residential premises, schools, hospitals and kindergartens.
It should always be remembered that one aerosol bottle in the fight against bedbugs is usually very small. As a rule, for efficient processing of a one-room apartment, at least 5-6 cylinders will be required, and most likely, such treatment will have to be repeated more than once.
Spray or aerosol: what and how to choose?
When choosing a tool you should always remember about the safety of each and pay attention to the various nuances. The same Tetrix, for example, cannot poison bugs without special personal protective equipment, and Sinuzan will leave behind such a smell that a hotel room cannot be used to receive tourists for several days after its use.
As a rule, if you need to process cabins, cottages, chicken coops, seasonal housing, or temporary shelters, apply sprays so that by the time of operation of the room the smell has already weathered. However, there is always the opportunity to use drugs with a minimum level of odor, for example, the same Get or Dobrokhim Micro.
Do not be mistaken by comparing directly the prices of sprays and aerosols. Thus, a 50-ml bottle of Delta-Zone spray concentrate costs about 600 rubles, and a 300-ml bottle of Dichlofos-Neo about 60 rubles.Such a difference can immediately scare away an economical parasite fighter from the spray. But in reality, with proper dilution, the Delta-Zone bottle will destroy bedbugs in 1-2 two-room apartments, and the Dichlorvs bottle, at best, on one infected sofa.
In any case, when choosing a remedy for bedbugs, preference should be given to household sprays — Get, Delta Zone, Xsulata, then aerosols such as Dichlorvos Neo or Raptor, and only then professional means.
Microencapsulated drugs and their features
Microencapsulated preparations differ from other sprays by a special form of insecticide injection into the solution: the active substance here forms microcapsules, which after spraying means are deposited on surfaces and even after drying they retain the ability to adhere to the legs and bugs. Since the insecticides used in these products have a contact action, they penetrate through the integuments of the body of the bug into his body and begin to act on the nervous system of the parasite.
Of the microencapsulated products, Geth, Xsulat, Delta-Zone, Lambda-Zone and some others are the most well-known.They all cost on average more expensive than simple insecticidal sprays.
Safety: what is important to remember when buying and applying sprays and aerosols
When buying a spray or spray from bedbugs, you should always carefully read the instructions on the packaging of the drug. It usually indicates all the precautions that must be followed when using a particular product.
There are several universal safety rules for the use of insecticidal sprays and aerosols:
- It is impossible to allow hit of means for skin, mucous membranes and in respiratory tracts. Even with relatively safe aerosols, you must adhere to this rule.
- It is necessary to remove all animals and people from the premises. Cats are especially sensitive to insecticides - the same permethrin for them is extremely toxic.
- All processed textiles must be carefully washed, in the room it is necessary to carry out wet cleaning after the bugs persecution.
- If any symptoms of poisoning appear when using sprays and aerosols from bedbugs, you should immediately see your doctor.
In addition, if there is an aquarium in the room to be treated,at the time of processing it is necessary to cover it with a cover glass and turn off the compressor in it - fish are very sensitive to insect poisons.
Frequently asked Questions
Is it possible to handle clothes in cabinets with sprays and aerosols?
Yes, it is possible and even necessary - bedbugs often lodge among stacks of old things. It is important only after processing to wash all clothes, and wash the closet thoroughly.
I saw some kind of Chinese yellow spray from bedbugs for sale, I was very praised for it, but it’s all in Chinese and there are no reviews about such a tool. Can I use it from bedbugs?
It is possible, but only at your own risk. It is not known which insecticides are contained in the spray can and how toxic it is to humans. As practice shows, in Chinese means in some cases very powerful, sometimes prohibited substances are used. The use of such a drug can, although it can give a good effect from bedbugs, but be dangerous to health. Carefully read in the description if there is DDT (DDT) in the composition - if this abbreviation is available, the drug is definitely not worth buying.
Is it possible to replace aerosols and sprays from bedbugs with powders? They after all well help from cockroaches ...
No, powders from bedbugs in most cases will not save - these funds are designed for the fact that insects (the same cockroaches or ants) eat them or run around them. Bedbugs can not eat anything except blood, and usually hide right near the place of feeding - under mattresses and in beds where it is difficult to scatter powders. Therefore, such funds from bedbugs will be useless.
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