How to independently destroy domestic bugs in the apartment

Many people who are faced with the problem of infestation by bedbugs prefer to immediately contact pest control services. Meanwhile, this expensive event may not give the quick and long-term effect that tenants expect.

At the same time, there are a lot of ways to get rid of bedbugs on your own, and today everyone can take measures in just a day, thanks to which domestic bugs completely disappear from the premises.

To date, the market is flooded with household insecticides, which allow you to easily and inexpensively carry out pest control with your own hands. The effectiveness of these tools proves: self-destruction of bedbugs is quite possible.

 

The use of aerosol insecticides for bedbugs

Aerosol is a very convenient form of release of antiparasitic agents, allowing you to apply the drug on any surface in literally several movements. In addition, the destruction of bugs using drugs in this form gives the fastest result.

Aerosol products are best used locally - spray them over the nests of bedbugs or their accumulation sites, because after applying to the surface the drug retains its effectiveness for a short time.

Aerosols have one major drawback: after spraying a significant part of the poison enters the air and can penetrate into the respiratory tract of a person or animal. Therefore, when working with sprays, it is important to strictly follow the instructions:

• remove food, hide personal items before use
• remove animals and children from the premises, close tightly and turn off the air intakes aquariums
• wear personal protective equipment: mask or respirator, goggles, gloves, a bathrobe
• wide open windows
• the can must be shaken thoroughly to mix the components
• Spray insect accumulations and secluded areas of the room, holding a can in an outstretched hand.The distance to the object to be sprayed is approximately 20 cm. Aerosols should not be used near electrical appliances and open flame. Spray so that a continuous line is obtained.
• After processing, you need to leave the windows open and leave the room for at least half an hour.

Self destruction of bedbugs in the apartment can be done with the following sprays:

• The raptor from bedbugs. It contains pyrethroid group poison, has a paralytic effect on the nervous system of insects. Most effective for local effects on parasites and their nests. You can buy the Raptor at a price of about 150-180 rubles.
• Raid. It is recommended for the processing of upholstered furniture, has an unstable smell that quickly disappears. You can buy the product for 150-180 rubles.
• Microscope. Known professional remedy with a strong smell, but very effective. It can be used on upholstered furniture (if the persistent smell does not frighten) or directly on the nests of bugs, on the parasites themselves. It is quite problematic to get Microscope, and one canister of it, which can be used to process the whole apartment, will cost 1,500 rubles.
• Combat This is another effective aerosol that is equipped with special nozzles for hard-to-reach places.It has a paralytic effect on insects, works best with a direct impact on bugs and their nests. Buy Combat can be for 125-140 rubles.

Before you remove bedbugs yourself with the help of sprays, you need to take care of the availability of personal protective equipment: gloves, cotton gauze dressing or respirator, glasses. They will reduce the likelihood of insecticide on the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract and provide adequate safety at work.

 

The use of insecticidal powders and chalk

When people think about how to poison the bedbugs on their own, they often focus on the advice of the sellers in the store or on the market. Many of them offer products released in the form of powder or chalk, which are supposedly very effective.

In fact, this form of release does not always have an effect against bedbugs, because these insects will not eat poisonous powder (as a cockroach, for example) could eat - bedbugs feed exclusively on blood. Therefore, only those powder insecticides that include poison of contact action, and not just intestinal, are actually working. The fight against the use of such powders is quite effective, but stretches over time.

Self-extermination of bedbugs usually involves the use of the following insecticidal powders:

• Chlorophos. Organophosphate insecticide, requires the preparation of a solution: 15 g of powder per 10 liters of water. Effective against bedbugs and their eggs. It is moderately toxic to humans, but is dangerous by inhalation.
• Masha. This chalk has a sufficiently high efficiency due to the content of poisons of the pyrethroid group. It is well fixed on the surface and acts for a long time after application. In terms of price and quality - this is one of the best options with a small number of bedbugs in the apartment.
• Neopin - quite effective powder for the destruction of bed bugs. Before use, it must be diluted in proportions of 10 g per 1 liter of water. It is necessary to irrigate places of accumulation of bedbugs and hard-to-reach places, and after 2 hours you can wash everything off (it does not have a prolonged action). To achieve the effect, a constant (literally daily) treatment with Neopin solution is required, otherwise it will not cope with the problem, but will only reduce the number of parasites.

 

Extermination of bedbugs by heat treatment

Homebugs, like all living things, have their own temperature limits of existence. Therefore, when self-destroying bedbugs, you can use an old proven trick: in the winter, you can take the infected sofa outside and leave it there for several hours.

If you can move for a couple of days, you can “freeze” the whole apartment, However, it is dangerous for plumbing (heating pipes may burst).

Domestic bugs do not tolerate temperatures from minus 22 degrees and below, and if the apartment is located in a region where such frosts occur, then such a way as freezing the room should be noted.

It is also possible to get rid of bed bugs with the help of high temperatures: parasite nests are boiled over or boiled over with steam. The first method rather effectively reduces the number of bedbugs, but only if their habitats are identified. The second method is worse: the steam usually does not have time to reach the desired place, condensing on furniture or walls.

Do disinsectors have special steam generators that send steam to the right place and destroy bed bugs. But the usual kettle is unlikely to work.Occasionally, professional disinsectors apply long-term heating of the room to a strand temperature of + 50 ° C using heat guns - this also leads to the death of the parasites.

 

Folk remedies against bedbugs

In the centuries-old struggle with bedbugs, people invented more and more new recipes for the effective destruction of these parasites. Some of these folk remedies do work, but for the most part they simply scare away the bugs for a while, without reducing their numbers. Such folk remedies-repellents include, for example, wormwood, tansy, vinegar, ammonia and some others.

There are options for mixtures that kill insects by direct contact with them. Unfortunately, they do not have a prolonged action. They do not make sense to apply throughout the apartment, you can handle only the discovered nests of bed bugs:

• a mixture of vinegar, naphthalene and 90% alcohol in equal parts;
• pure meth;
• aviation kerosene.

It is worth remembering that independent destruction of bedbugs by folk remedies makes sense only with a small number of insects in the house. In addition, the use of toxic chemicals requires compliance with strict safety procedures: the use of gloves, masks and goggles.

Denatured alcohol, alcohol and aviation liquid are highly flammable, so you can not use them near the source of fire. In addition, these agents are toxic to animals.

So, as you can see, self-destruction of bedbugs in an apartment is not such an impossible task, if you approach it wisely. It is possible to completely get rid of the bed bugs population in a fairly short time, but there is always the risk of their re-penetration, for example, from their neighbors. Therefore it is useful to act together with other tenants of the house.

If it is not possible to agree with the neighbors, then it is necessary to carry out constant preventive measures and to protect your apartment from the new penetration of bedbugs.

 

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