Consider ways to get rid of bed bugs

Of all the parasites and unwanted neighbors living in the house, bedbugs are the most unpleasant. If the harmfulness of cockroaches and ants is only in the deterioration of food and the transfer of bacilli from the street or porch, then the bugs in the literal sense of the word parasitize a person, causing painful bites and eating blood.

About how to bring bed bugs, written multipage instructions back in the Middle Ages. Then these small, uninvited guests of human housing poisoned people with sleep and normal life much more than they do now. But at the same time, the inhabitants of any, even the richest houses, had significantly less means of dealing with them than the average citizen of today.

So let's consider what effective remedies for bed bugs can be used.

 

Means to fight bed bugs

Bed bugs - the creatures are quite delicate and whimsical to the living conditions. They poorly tolerate high temperatures, die in the cold, are very sensitive to strong odors. On the impact on their weaknesses and based action of most modern means of struggle:

• Chemicals. They can be used independently, following the instructions, or call special services to combat insects. At the moment, there are many effective insecticides for bedbugs: Combat, Hangman, Malathion, Dichlorvos, Xsulat, Cucaracha. Each bed bugs remedy from this list quite effectively. But with regular harassment of parasites in the same room with the same drug, there is a risk that insects adapt to it and develop resistance.
• Freezing bedbugs. In this case, it is enough to leave the premises for a few winter days by turning off the heating and leaving the windows open. During the day, at a negative temperature, almost all the bugs will die. Only in rare cases after such freezing do eggs or individual adult bugs remain alive, which have time to fall into a state of specific anabiosis.
• Temperature treatment of the room.Heating the room to high temperatures is even more efficient than freezing. In practice, it has been verified that a temperature rise above 50 ° C for 6-8 hours completely kills all bed bugs, their eggs and larvae in an apartment or house. It is possible and in many cases even more rational is the treatment with steam or hot air of only some places of refuge of bedbugs. Based on the same principle getting rid of bedbugs clothes and various items that are placed in special dryers or even just in a closed car, left for several hours in the sun.
• Mechanical destruction of bedbugs. Today, this method is almost never used. In essence, it means simply catching and crushing bedbugs, or treating the floor, sofas and beds with a vacuum cleaner. In any case, its effectiveness is extremely low, and it is unlikely to succeed in getting rid of bed bugs completely with its help.
• Various folk remedies for fight bed bugs. These are not only various sharp-smelling herbs like tansy or wormwood, but also denatured alcohol, turpentine, camphor, vinegar and others. Their effectiveness is low, and they only help during the short time required to call the disinsection team and prepare the apartment for processing.In addition, the action of most folk remedies for bedbugs is based on scaring off parasites. And the presence of such strong smells in the room can reduce the standard of living of people in it more than the presence of bedbugs.

Choose a particular means of bed bugs should be based on considerations of rationality and expediency. If a bug is accidentally found in an apartment near an air vent or entrance door, it is worth crushing and checking the mattresses on the sofa. If this is an occasional guest in the room, you need to take note of the fact that the neighbors have bedbugs and resort to ways to prevent them from entering the accommodation. Including - and to the means of the people (for scaring).

If the bugs in the apartment were wound up only in the bed and the couch, and careful searches behind the plinths and in the closets did not work, it is advisable to take the sofa out onto the street and process it with special chemicals. And if there is a strong frost outside, then just leave the sofa there for a couple of days.

If the bugs firmly and securely settled in sofas, armchairs and beds, in the crevices of cabinets, behind carpets, in clothing and behind baseboards, then a complete disinsection of the dwelling is necessary.

In addition, in apartment buildings, a strong infection of one apartment automatically implies the presence of bedbugs in the neighboring ones. And the pest control here must be carried out jointly and simultaneously with neighbors. In the best case - by professionals.

 

Sanitary services and their specifics

Special services for the disinsection of premises - the most effective, but also the most expensive way to deal with bedbugs.

As a rule, before processing the apartment, the specialists of such services agree with the owners of the premises on the composition of the means used, the dates and terms of work. They also provide specific instructions for preparing the premises for the procedure for the destruction of bedbugs and explain the order of all actions for customers.

After the sanitary services work, the bugs in the room are completely destroyed. In this special insecticides as carefully as possible processed all the furniture, walls, wallpaper, baseboards, clothing, bedding, sockets, ventilation passages.

Before conducting a pest control all tenants must leave it. Do not leave pets and plants here. If the apartment has an aquarium, it is necessary to close it as tightly as possible and turn on the compressor in it.

The cost of disinsection services starts from 900 rubles for a one-room apartment and 1,400 rubles for a two-room apartment, and increases depending on the area, the amount of furniture and the degree of infestation with its bedbugs. Given the effectiveness of the work of specialists of such services, today they are the best way to completely and quickly rid the house of bed bugs.

 

Chemical insecticides for bed bug control

Perhaps the best known remedy for bedbugs is Malathion. It is either a powder or a liquid. Powder must be scattered in habitat bedbugs, and with a liquid, having previously diluted the concentrate, it is necessary to process the bed, furniture, plinth - any places in which bugs can settle in the daytime.

No less effective remedy for bed bugs Executioner. It is recommended to use for a complete one-time disinsection of the apartment. The executioner is produced in the form of a powder that dissolves in water, poured into any vessel with a sprinkler and then applied to the maximum number of surfaces and crevices in the apartment.

Similarly, the Executioner works for Get bugs.Its advantage is the ability to infect bugs, and then with a still live insect to penetrate into the place of accumulation of bugs and kill several more parasites.

The following products are also quite effective against bed bugs: Insecticide, Combat, Carbozol, Tetrix, Chlorophos.

However, you should be very careful when reading the instructions for their use: some of these drugs (like many other insecticides, of course) are toxic and can be quite dangerous for humans.

 

Fight with bed bugs folk remedies

Any grandmother at the entrance is ready to offer ten tips on how to deal with bed bugs using dust, vinegar or turpentine. But, alas, in addition to low cost and ease of use, folk remedies have practically no other advantages.

Widely known, especially in rural areas, is the use of tansy, denatured alcohol or turpentine as strongly smelling bugbugs. But it should be understood that such repellents are effective only as long as the bugs are not hungry enough. After this point, the smell will not stop them.

Repeatedly confirmed in practice fact: only folk remedies completely remove bedbugs from housing is impossible.

 

Destruction of bedbugs by temperature

For the most effective thermal treatment of the room from bugs, special pest control teams are called. They use special mobile installations, allowing to raise the temperature in the room to 50-60 ° С. This is perhaps the most radical, but also the most effective way to combat bed bugs. When using it, both adult insects and their larvae and eggs are destroyed.

But the processing of steam has its drawbacks. First, steam does not penetrate everywhere, and the larvae hiding among the mattresses or inside them can survive. Secondly, the long treatment of the apartment with steam can lead to damage to furniture, wallpaper and various items.

Freezing an apartment also has its advantages and disadvantages. Among the advantages - low cost and the possibility of carrying out this procedure on their own, without the involvement of specialists. But it also has its drawbacks: lower efficiency compared with high-temperature treatment and the possibility of damage to various equipment and plumbing systems in the cold.

It is most advisable to use low temperatures for the treatment of sofas, chairs, bed.They can be taken out into the frost without harm to the apartment, get rid of bed bugs and brought back. But this method is good only if the bugs settled only in this element of furniture.

But the main thing is to remember that if the bugs have settled in the apartment, then most likely the neighbors have them too. And in such cases, disinsection should be carried out immediately in all apartments. This will guarantee that in a month after the procedure the bugs will not appear in the room again.

 

5 reliable ways to destroy bedbugs in the apartment

 

A good example of the huge number of bedbugs in the mattress