Insects that are able to settle down and feel good in a bathroom or toilet are few in number. In most cases, you can meet the following unexpected "guests":
- Silverfish are small light gray creatures with an elongated body and three long hairs at the end of the body. Below in the photo - these insects in the bathroom:
- Butterflies are small flies in black with wings about 2 mm long.
- Ordinary mosquitoes who prefer to rest in wet areas.
- Cockroaches, often appearing here during migrations from neighbors - it is from the ventilation ducts in the bathroom or toilet that they usually get into the apartment.
Often in the bathrooms and toilets are settled creatures that are insects, strictly speaking, are not - it is wood lice, centipedes, flytraps and kivsyaki. Litter - oddly enough, crustaceans, centipedes also have nothing to do with insects, but most of the townspeople do not know this and, seeing them, believe that it is insects that started in the bathroom. However, when it comes to the struggle, it is not so important.
Let's take a closer look at all these unwanted roommates and figure out how to deal with them correctly.
How to withdraw silverfish?
The silverfish have a rather unpleasant appearance that does not correspond to their harmlessness. These small insects settle in the baths with the same frequency as in any other rooms. They have an elongated body without wings, three antennas at the end of the body and reach sizes of about 1 cm.
In the photo is a silverfish, a very harmless insect that can be found in the bathroom:
Champions feed on a wide variety of organics: from food residue on the table to wet paper. In the bathrooms and the toilet, their food is mold, pieces of toilet paper, rags, garbage under the bedding.
It is interesting
Scientists consider silverfish the most ancient of the living insects. The structure of their body has primitive features that the ancestors of most modern insects supposedly possessed.
Scalynits do not cause any harm to humans, they do not spread dirt and microbes.
Recently faded silverfish have a very light color, and if white insects are bred in the bathroom, it is most likely they.
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“Tell me, what insects live in the bathroom? We have got some insects in the bathroom, they are few, but we constantly see them. Small ones are greyish, some almost white, with a long body and three tails. It’s easy to kill them, but you don’t want them to penetrate here at all. Maybe there are some means that they fear? "
Andrey, Petropavlovsk
Commonly, silverfish do not breed in large numbers, and a sneaker or folded newspaper is enough to fight them. If these insects in the toilet or bathroom have become especially numerous, you can treat the room with any household aerosol such as Raptor or Combat. Chevyunitsu this will kill for sure.
Licks and how to deal with them
Lackes are, strictly speaking, small land crustaceans, which prefer to live in wet places, feeding on various plant debris. They are not insects, but often so are called in the people. Many know wood lice thanks to their habit of curling up in danger.
Licks appear in the bathroom or toilet from dampness and hide where there are constantly water leaks. In apartments and houses, they are indicators of problems with the water supply or sewage system: if nothing leaks anywhere, the woodlice will not appear in the house. Therefore, before you destroy them, you need to figure out where and what flows, and fix the problem. Sometimes these insects come from neighbors or from the attic through the ventilation system.
Lackes have a characteristic gray body color, but those individuals that have just molted appear milky-white due to the soft, fragile shell. That is why the white insects in the bathroom may well be woodlice.
In the photo - white insects in the bathroom, which in fact are not insects at all, but a species of crustaceans:
Wets are quite harmless and only sometimes can damage stocks of vegetables and fruits, for example, in closets. They do not bite and do not attack a person. They should be removed by treating the premises inhabited by them with household insecticides - you can use drugs Get, Lambda Zone, Hangman, Karbofos, Raptor.
If leaks and leaks are eliminated in an apartment, wood lice can be collected by hand - their new brethren will not appear here.
Butterflies
These small flies are very easy to recognize: they have a dark body and well-contoured wings, which seem velvet. Butterflies often sit on the mirrors and walls of the bathroom or toilet.
In the photo the butterfly on the tile:
In the toilet, these insects are found as often as in the bathroom.
Butterflies too get wet. Their larvae develop in sewer pipes, on walls constantly wet from condensation and in places where dirt accumulates. They feed on various organic residues. And if others domestic insects from high humidity may suffer, but the butterfly, on the contrary, just appear from the damp.
Butterflies are never especially numerous. These flying insects in the bathroom usually appear one or two, and their main mass is kept in the basements. They are not taken out on purpose, they just clap at the meeting - this is usually quite enough. If necessary, the room can be treated with any aerosol insecticidal preparation (Raptor, Reid, Combat, Dichlorvos).
Centipedes: Dogs and Flycatchers
These guests are not insects either, but in general this is what they are called “in the society of housewives”.Despite family ties, the appearance of different centipedes in an apartment can vary greatly.
For example, in the photo below - the Crimean maritime:
This harmless invertebrate is turned on from damp and kept in secluded, warm and humid places. At danger, the seaweed coils into a spiral and releases a fetid liquid, the smell of which is easily recognizable.
And so the centipede flytrap looks like:
Flycatchers can live in the bathroom and toilet, and in any other rooms. They are not tied to humidity, but settle where mosquitoes, flies, butterflies, and silverfish are their main food.
It is possible to remove centipedes from the apartment by any insecticidal means. However, these insects rarely settle in the premises in large quantities, and therefore for their destruction it is enough to simply catch and destroy the observed individuals.
Mosquitoes and their love for bathrooms
Mosquitoes constantly in the bathroom do not live. Only in the dirtiest apartments, where pots or old water cans can stand under baths for months, can mosquitoes breed.
Usually in the room they appear to bite people, and in the bathroom they keep to rest.Under natural conditions, mosquitoes are tied to water in which their larvae breed, and therefore in a person’s dwelling they are looking for a corresponding damp room.
Eliminate the causes of insects in the bathroom
The main reason for the appearance of any domestic insects in the bathroom or toilet is dampness and leaking pipes. Accordingly, the only reliable way to avoid the appearance of unwanted guests here is to fix the plumbing and ensure adequate ventilation.
Sometimes in private houses or in apartments located on the first floors of apartment buildings, insects crawl here from the basements in search of warmer shelters. In this case, it is important to eliminate any gaps and grooves in the places where pipes enter the walls and floors so that even the smallest insects cannot penetrate.
Also for the prevention can be scattered boric acid under the bath. Woodfishes, scales, cockroaches and other small insects will die after the first consumption of this substance, and even individual pioneers will not linger here. Additionally, in the bathroom and the toilet, you can expand bundles of wormwood and tansy or hang sections from moths, the smell of which quite well deters different arthropods.
Sometimes in the bathroom and toilet you can find bedbugs and cockroaches crawling here along ventilation passages from neighboring apartments. Constantly these insects do not live in the bathroom, but if they are present with neighbors, they can occur here often. Moreover, the larvae of cockroaches, just molted, have almost white color, and it is not always easy to identify them unprepared person.
In the photo - a white insect, which can also be found in the bathroom, this is the nymph of the usual red cockroach:
To protect against these guests, you should tighten the ventilation passages with a thick mesh, and in them hang up the insect repellent sections. It will be a reliable guarantee that insects will not start in the bathroom or toilet.
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“We have small white insects in the toilet that are constantly sitting on the walls or ceiling. Ugly such for worms like. Viewed on the Internet, it turned out that these were silverfish. Maybe a week we just clapped them with a sneaker, and so they took everyone out. I think that nothing more serious against them should be applied. ”
Vyacheslav, Bitter
A resident of the apartment collects from the walls about fifty wood lice per day
Interesting video: how to effectively deal with woodlice in the bathrooms and toilets
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Phew I killed one today. She is so nasty, long, with long legs and a mustache and black eyes. Runs very fast. At the sight of her you hardly want this.I live in Omsk, near the lake. Every creature missing: midges, mosquitoes, etc.
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Scattered boric acid against scales in all the bathrooms (especially where there are pipes and moisture) - this crap, as it crawled and creeps, doesn’t care!
Dichlorvos - a universal remedy. And if even through the flame to spray, then the insects have no chance.
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