Smoke bombs for the destruction of insects and reviews of their use

Smoke bombs from insects - quite inexpensive and very convenient means for mass extermination of insects in industrial premises and in open spaces. They are best known from hunters and fishermen, but products of this type for industrial use (for example, for processing warehouses and greenhouses) are almost bestsellers and are purchased, though not often, but in very large quantities.

Smoke bombs from insects can also be used in residential high-rise and private homes, but using them here has a certain specificity: automatic fire extinguishing agents sometimes react to the smoke from the drafts, and even neighbors can rewrite. Besides, poison cockroaches and bedbugs in apartments with the help of checkers should be in full compliance with safety requirements, which in this case is much more stringent than, for example, when using completely harmless crayons or insecticidal gels.

In general, the main areas of use are the following:

• Basements.
• Agricultural buildings - greenhouses, greenhouses, as well as open areas as part of garden and garden farms, summer cottages, campgrounds. In the latter, smoke bombs are usually used against wasps, mosquitoes and gadflies.
• Warehouses, hangars and garages.
• Private houses and apartments - in the fight against cockroaches, bed bugs and fleas.

Accordingly, most of the insecticidal smoke bombs on the market today are divided into products for personal use in open spaces and homestead buildings and options for residential and industrial buildings.

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“If you are going to process large areas, and you have little time, then smoke bombs will help to do it quickly and with minimal effort. Only protection will need to be reserved in advance, because the smoke really eats away the eyes and lungs. You need at least a good respirator, well, or you have to quickly run out after you light this thing.We are using ordinary sulfur bombs so get rid of fungi and insects in vegetable stores, before harvesting. Three years in a row everything works fine. ”

Arsen Ivanov

 

Active substances in smoke bombs

The composition of smoke bombs from insects can vary greatly, depending on the intensity and the intended object of exposure.

Most often in these products the following substances are used:

1. Sulfur compounds that pass into the process of burning checkers in sulfuric anhydride is a highly vigorous compound for antifungal, insecticidal and bactericidal treatment (in other words, this substance is suitable for disinsection and disinfection of premises). Generally speaking, sulfuric anhydride is widely used in animal husbandry as a drug for the prevention and destruction of ticks, fleas, lice, and sulfur checkers are used for disinsection and disinfection of farm premises.
2. Hexachlorane is a systemic, contact-intestinal insecticide of neuroparalytic action. If necessary, it can be used to combat soil-raising and tree-eating insects, the caterpillars of some butterflies (moths), and locusts. Ineffective in the fight against coccid and herbivorous mites.
3. Didecyldimethylammonium bromide is a substance with high fungicidal and bactericidal activity. Effectively helps fight bacterial and fungal infections in agricultural stores. This substance is also effective in the fight against pests of gardens and gardens.
4. Permethrin is a contact-intestinal insecticide with a neuro-paralyzing effect. Checkers with a permethrin concentration of 5-10% help scare away and destroy both flying and crawling synanthropic insects (cockroaches, ants, fleas, bedbugs, mosquitoes, moths, flies). They can be used for processing large spaces in non-residential premises - warehouses, hangars, basements, cinemas.

Most smoke bombs for private use and repelling mosquitoes and flies contain permethrin as an active ingredient. In checkers used in residential premises, other substances from the pyrethroid family are used.

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“I had to drive the mites out of the old chicken coop. Processed ordinary sulfur checker Climate. Previously, the entire litter was carried out, and the walls and floor were sprayed. In general, the result was good. But Climate cannot say how much a big role was played in this complex. ”

Alexey Gennadievich, Kursk

 

How effective are checkers?

Given the high penetrating power of smoke, insect insects can be effective where it is difficult to handle all the places of parasite shelters with conventional aerosol means. In greenhouses, it is advisable to use them on loose soil where full cleaning is not possible, for example, in agricultural premises (greenhouses, greenhouses), as well as where large areas need to be treated with minimal effort - in warehouses and in hangars.

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“They were saved by moles and scoops. Miraculously managed to find hexachlorane. Generally, an unpleasant thing, his eyes only eats away, but it worked effectively. It penetrates into all holes, into the ground - even where conventional means do not fall. True, now the wife complains that it is toxic, but I hope it will erode before planting crops and it will not harm. ”

Ivan, Murom

In residential areas, insecticidal smoke without any effort from the handler penetrates easily through the baseboards, furniture gaps, cabinets and sofas, where they quickly poison insects. Smoke bombs are very effective against bedbugs and cockroaches, but they usually destroy ants worse, because these insects often have nests outside the apartment.

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“If you have a lot of cockroaches in your apartment, I will advise you to use smoke bombs against insects. With them there is no such trouble, as with all sorts of executioners, Kukarac. Nothing needs to be diluted anywhere, no need to splash on every centimeter. Such checkers are sold in the central market in China, blue, or on the Internet you can buy. Water is poured into the jar of checkers, this thing is put into it and that's it. The main thing is to quickly escape from the apartment, and the smoke is poisonous. Yes, and the neighbors say, not to worry. We used to poison our mother in the apartment before the repair. There was, to put it mildly, a mess. The wallpaper is half cut off, carpets from the post-war years have not been removed from the wall, in the cabinets lay a half-meter layer of dust. When the refrigerator was moved away from the wall, the wife fell into a chair - there were thousands of cockroaches, probably. Two such checkers were put, one in the room, one in the kitchen, etched - and that was that. True, the smoke already reached the site, but we warned all the neighbors and there were no problems. But then, when the workers did the repairs, they took the cockroaches out of the house with buckets. ”

Konstantin, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

It should be remembered that the checkers from insects synanthropes in the majority do not destroy the eggs of bedbugs.

This means that when dealing with these parasites, the processing of the room with smoke will have to be repeated twice with an interval of 2-3 weeks or to combine checkers with other means.

In addition, some checkers smoke has no residual effect and destroys insects only within a few hours after burning the product. Practice shows that it is the means with a prolonged action that allow the bugs to be destroyed in one treatment.

In cases where indoor bugs were destroyed by sabers at a time, there was usually a pre-treatment with other insecticides. Very often apartment tenants try poison bugs one means such as an aerosol or spray, the main part of the parasites dies, but after a few weeks, young larvae from surviving eggs appear.

Handlers believe that the tool did not work, buy insect smoke bombs and successfully poison the young growth. Although in fact double processing by the original tool, and it is the same, but only with checkers, would give the same effect.

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“We three times poisoned bugs with the Raptor, but then we could not stand it and bought Chinese checkers with smoke.No matter how you freak out with these cans, bed bugs still survive somewhere. Checkers, of course, struck us. It is difficult to use them, five hours after one such was lit, I could stand in the apartment, that the walls were not visible. But the bugs died out absolutely everything. Half crawled into the middle of the room, another part we swept out from under the beds. But now, seven months, no one, pah-pah, is not visible. By the way, one of our geraniums withered after such processing, even though I carried all the flowers to the open balcony.

Valeria, Vladivostok

 

Manufacturers and models of drafts

Today, the industry produces a large number of insect sticks. Among them are both domestic developments and imported products.

The best known are the following:

• Climate - a popular sulfur checker for processing greenhouses, vegetable and granaries, livestock farms. During the work it effectively destroys itch mites, fleas, lice.
• FAS is an analogue of the Climate, when burning it smells very unpleasantly sulfur. There is such a product about 50 rubles.
• CITY is a smoke tube based on permethrin, effective for killing cockroaches, ants and woodlice in cellars, sheds, basements.
• Quiet Evening, the name of which itself speaks about the scope of its application. The checker is used to protect against blood-sucking insects in the open air, including in home gardens and in the wild. However, as practice shows, the use of such checkers in an ordinary apartment against bedbugs and cockroaches also gives very good results.
  
• Volcano, another sulfuric checker, used mainly for processing industrial warehouses.
• G-17, checker based on hexachlorane. Very toxic, it should be used only for the treatment of open spaces - gardens, gardens, fields - in compliance with the necessary security measures.
• Samuro is a smoke bomb from bugs, cockroaches, mosquitoes and other insects, and especially designed for indoor use.. The concentration of permethrin in its composition is 5%. Residual odor and white deposits on surfaces when applied are less pronounced than when using, for example, the Silent Evening checkers.

But checkers against insects for residential premises for Russian-speaking users are still nounheim. Usually, Chinese and Japanese imported products are used as such, the names of which are not even translated into Russian or English.They use modern insecticides based on derivatives of oxidiazole, carbamic acid and others.

The cost of smoke bombs for the treatment of industrial premises and for use in nature ranges from 50 rubles per piece and higher. Household products are more expensive: for processing a room of 10 m² it is enough to use a checker for 150 rubles, for a room of 30 m² you need a checker for 350 rubles and more.

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“Every year I process my greenhouses with sulfur checkers. While the result holds. Fungi are gone a long time, the tick does not live, even the grinder does not touch wooden supports. But during the growing season it is still necessary, of course, to do additional processing just in case. In a complex, I consider, good means ».

Inna Arkadyevna Serykh, Krasnodar Territory

 

Instructions for use of smoke bombs

Smoke has a high penetrating power, and therefore when using drafts in any premises, you should take care of the safety of not only the residents of the processed housing, but also the neighbors. Most formulations are highly toxic, so for the period of the procedure, people and pets need to leave the treatment area for at least a few hours.Also from the room you need to make indoor plants, cover the aquarium with a cover glass, and tighten the gaps with cling film.

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“I launched a checkerboard in the underground, in the garage. There my vegetable store was equipped. Well pickled from fungi, and even small insects were searching. Cockroaches and woodlice used to run, now it's clear. ”

Saveliev I. S., Omsk Region

The process of processing premises smoke bombs is as follows:

1. Shut up all the slots carefully, close the windows.
2. Checkers are placed in the center of the treated area on a non-flammable surface (stone, brick, ceramic tile or dishes).
3. Checkers for domestic use are usually supplied in special banks. On the inner surface of such a jar there is a mark to which it is necessary to pour plain tap water. The product itself is then placed in water in a large jar.
4. The checkers wicks are set on fire, and the handler leaves the premises as soon as possible, carefully closing it behind him. In some household drafts it is not necessary to set fire to anything: they start to smoke just from contact with water.

Immediately after the appearance of smoke from the room you need to go. Smoke emission from a single checker can last up to an hour and a half.After this, the room should be kept closed for 2-3 hours, and then ventilated and wet-cleaned.

It is very important to warn neighbors and doormen before using checkers. If the house has a fire alarm, they need to be turned off. No way of isolating the apartment will help prevent some of the smoke from entering the front door or to the neighbors through ventilation - at least everyone will feel the smell. Therefore, it is important that no one, by mistake, calls firefighters.

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“I felt very bad when I had to handle checkers. My head was spinning, dreary after that. Still, harmful thing, poisonous. Next season I want to see something new. In an extreme case, ask someone else to do the processing. ”

Anna Ivanovna, Cheboksary

 

Insect checker "Silent evening" in action

 

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