Details on the treatment of premises from various insects: important nuances

Next you will find out:

• What must be considered when ordering the treatment of premises from insects;
• What methods of treatment are and which one is preferred;
• What means are usually disinsected and what is important to know about them in advance in order to avoid unpleasant situations;
• How to interact with professional disinsection services and what you should especially pay attention to.

and other interesting moments.

In general, well-designed and well-conducted processing of premises from insects can be described as a rather complicated and time-consuming process. If it seems to you that it is enough just to buy Dichlorvos in the nearest store and pop the room along the baseboards with them - well, insects usually appreciate this and for a long time delight residents with their presence, while continuing to actively reproduce and occupy neighboring territories.

Usually pest control is required in cases where the initial stage of infection has long been missed, so that pests or parasites multiply en masse, leading to a significant deterioration in the sanitary situation and in general to reduce the quality of life of people. However, in some cases, and against the recently appeared "guests", such processing also turns out to be in demand, especially if the residents are initially set up to use the services of professionals and do not try to deal with insects using various folk methods or (believe it, but it happens) with plots and prayers.

The most common treatment of apartments from insects is aimed at the destruction of the following arthropods:

• cockroaches;
• ants;
• bed bugs;
• moth;
• fleas;
• wood lice

On a note

Strictly speaking, woodlice, spiders or, for example, mites, are not insects (insects have only 3 pairs of legs). But in everyday life almost always these arthropods are called insects.

In addition, in industrial warehouses, in stores, at various food processing enterprises and in livestock buildings, the treatment against insects is carried out for the destruction of kozheedov beetles, grinders and sandstorms, ticks, flies, as well as against highly specialized pests of stored products.

At the same time, the methods of processing household and industrial (warehouse) premises can vary significantly both in the type of means used and in the methods of disinsection. As a rule, very large premises are treated with fumigation methods, sometimes with special smoke bombs from insects.

In the case of residential treatment, the methods of disinsection can be quite diverse, but, as a rule, the main damage to insects is applied by spraying some effective insecticide (or their specially selected mixture) in a finely dispersed form over as large an area as possible.

 

Ways to treat premises from insects

There are several ways of treating a room with insecticidal agents. At the same time, the most frequently pest control services remove insects as follows:

• Simple aerosol treatment - spraying insecticidal preparations at places where insects can accumulate and how they can be moved. The drug in this case is sprayed with a special sprayer (spray). Imagine an ordinary household or garden spray bottle, and you will understandthat the insecticidal aerosol created by such treatment turns out to be relatively coarse-dispersed, and therefore, its volatility is not always sufficient for penetration into various narrow gaps and hard-to-reach places. Things are better when using ready-made aerosol cans.
• Cold mist method. This method is similar to a simple aerosol treatment, but here the insecticide solution is sprayed with a special device with such small drops that they are long enough in the air of the room and penetrate even those places and slots that can be very difficult to handle with an ordinary atomizer. For example, such a thin aerosol is capable of destroying the nest of bedbugs, having penetrated inside the sofa or mattress through the micropores in the fabric, and is also able to reach the cockroaches hiding in the microwave or the outlets of the sockets.
• Hot mist method. This method is quite similar to the cold mist method, but implies additional heating of the insecticidal aerosol to a temperature of 50-60 ° C, which increases the time the product is in the air and its effectiveness against insects.
• Fumigation, in which the insecticide is applied in a gaseous state. The use of sulfur and permetra insect insects can be attributed to this method. Today, there are insecticidal checkers for domestic use - from cockroaches, bedbugs, fleas, and other undesirable living creatures. Sometimes it is enough to use such a checker once in a closed room in order to cut out most of the pests and parasites that have settled in it.
• The use of powdered insecticides that are scattered in places where insects move (the so-called dusts - the name came from the pesticide DDT that has not been used for a long time).
• The use of insecticidal gels against cockroaches, ants and woodlice (professional pest killers use this method except as an auxiliary; however, although gels work slowly, but choosing a high-quality drug rather well helps to reduce the number, for example, cockroaches to zero). In fact, such gels work like poison bait.

Thus, if you plan to order the treatment of industrial or domestic premises from insects and get the maximum result, it is better to focus on pest control using cold or hot fog. Large insect control services, as a rule, are always ready to provide such a service - it is enough to discuss this by telephone.

Feedback:

“Friends have recommended us a hot fog. We ordered the treatment in the morning (they said it would erode for a long time). An employee of the company came, pokhimichil in the apartment about half an hour, took almost 5 thousand and left, saying that you need to wait a few hours. We went into the apartment only in the evening. Impressions - tin! The smell is terrible, though it disappeared after a week. It was impossible to sleep on that day in the house. But then the cockroaches crumbled from under the plaster like leaves from a tree. Well, really the whole floor was strewn! We walked and were afraid to step in, so as not to smudge the floor, they collected it with a dustpan. ”

Kushnarev, Moscow region

 

Means by which disinsection is made

The vast majority of modern insecticidal agents for the treatment of premises from insects contain in their composition substances belonging to pyrethroids (permethrin, lambda-cyhalothrin, deltamethrin, etc.), or to organophosphorus compounds (chlorpyrifos, chlorophos, malathion - also karbofos, etc. ). All these substances affect the nervous system of insects, leading to paralysis, and then to death.

For humans, the majority of insecticides are relatively low toxic, but if carelessly treated they can lead to poisoning — for example, if they are inhaled or in the respiratory tract or the digestive tract. Some of the insecticides can cause skin irritation.

On a note

Permethrin, harmless enough for humans, is quite dangerous for cats (the first signs of poisoning in them are excessive salivation and inappropriate behavior). Therefore, if the premises are treated with a preparation on the basis of this insecticide, then you should take care in advance that the whiskered pet does not contact with the treated surfaces until the moment of wet cleaning. We must not allow the animal to eat poisoned dead or disoriented insects.

It should be borne in mind that the disinsectors are usually their main goal reliable insect extermination indoors, not always worrying about whether the used drug smells strongly and how long the smell will remain after treatment. There are cases when tenants had to simply throw out the upholstered furniture due to the fact that it had retained a persistent chemical smell of an insecticidal agent for months.

Fortunately, some modern disinsection services themselves are guided by drugs with a relatively weak and quickly eroding odor. In addition, when ordering, you can pre-specify this point, specifying that you only agree to the processing of a faint-smelling agent.

If you are going to carry out the processing of the apartment on your own, then it is useful to consider the following points:

• Aerosol preparations in cans (Dichlorvos, Raid, Combat, etc.) allow you to quickly destroy insects, if you know exactly where their cluster is located. Simply spraying the spray into the air, on the floor or walls is often ineffective.
• Concentrates of insecticides for dilution and subsequent spraying from a household sprinkler (Get, Lambda Zone, Xulsat Micro, etc.) are more economical than aerosol preparations in cans, and at the same time are often more effective, including due to the prolonged action. Such tools can be easily purchased online.
• A single treatment of the room is not always enough. For example, most insecticides do not have a poisoning effect on bedbug eggs. Accordingly, the first treatment will kill adult individuals of parasites and their larvae, and the eggs will survive.After a couple of weeks, it is advisable to repeat the treatment, as this will destroy the young larvae, which by this time will hatch from surviving after the first treatment of eggs.
• If, for example, cockroaches or bugs continue to regularly enter the room from their neighbors, then even after a thorough disinsection, sooner or later insects can settle in your apartment again. Therefore, to carry out the treatment of insects should be together with neighbors.
• If the neighbors do not go in contact, you can contact the SES, as well as take protective measures using means with a barrier effect (example: the ventilating path is processed along the entire perimeter, and each insect, inevitably in contact with the insecticide).

 

Processing procedure

Regardless of whether the insect treatment is carried out by professional pest control or by the hands of the owners themselves, in the most general case it consists of the following steps:

• Preparation of the room. If we are talking about a residential apartment or a private house, they provide access to places where insects can hide, furniture is moved away from the walls; in the case of the destruction of bedbugs it is useful to remove the bed sheets in advance.Clean things, dishes, children's toys are folded in plastic bags and sealed (you need to be sure that there are no insects or their eggs on these things). People are taken out of warehouses and industrial premises, sometimes it is necessary to adjust the ventilation in the way required by the use of a specific agent.
• Treatment of the room with the preparation. If it is an aerosol (mist, spray), it is applied to all surfaces, furniture and equipment that insects can crawl through, as well as the intended places of their shelters. When using gels or powders, they are applied in places where insects move. Fumigants are simply released into the air and then themselves fill all the corners of the room.
• Room cleaning and bringing it into a residential or working look. Usually, this stage requires careful ventilation and wet cleaning.

When calling a special disinsection service, the manager usually warns himself how to prepare the room, and after processing the disinsection will explain how to clean up the room. In addition, some companies offer to carry out all these works by their specialists for a certain amount.

 

Professional pest control: features of the procedure and interaction with specialists

Calling a professional pest control service to treat a room from insects makes sense in the following cases:

• when there are a lot of insects in the room, and there is no desire to fight them on their own;
• when it seems to you that you have already tried all means and methods, but nothing helps;
• when an independent struggle gives effect only for a month or two, after which the insects reappear;
• when the tendency to allergies does not give you the opportunity to spray an insecticide in the apartment yourself;
• and just in case you want to get a guaranteed result with minimal effort on your part.

In large industrial buildings or warehouse complexes, professional disinsection is the only way to effectively destroy pests.

The participation of the owners of the premises in such processing, as a rule, is limited to the preparation of it and the subsequent putting in order. Being present during processing is usually prohibited in order to avoid poisoning. If the customer necessarily wants to observe the whole procedure, he should have a respirator and rubber gloves with him.

All bona fide insect-killing firms give out to customers the necessary set of documents: a contract with a seal and a signature, a certificate of completion, a cash voucher for payment. At the service call stage, it is always necessary to clarify what guarantees the company provides: in many cases, even ideally carried out processing does not allow destroying insects in one procedure, and therefore bugs or cockroaches may reappear in a few weeks, which will require repeated processing to destroy them. (you need to make sure that such processing, if required, will be free of charge).

If you did not bother with a guarantee in advance, then it can be an unpleasant surprise for you when a company asks for more money to be processed again.

Feedback

“... The price was not much higher than that of other companies, and the result is excellent. The bugs were dead right in front of their eyes, before hiding in all the cracks, and then suddenly povylazili. The smell was the first time, but after a day it had completely eroded. The processing itself took about forty minutes + another 3 hours the apartment was kept closed. As a result, managed for half a day and paid only 2,000 with a penny. "

Maxim, Krasnoyarsk

 

Handling insects from the premises

Perhaps the most important thing to remember when self-treating a room from insects is the need to adhere to strict safety rules.: handler must wear long-sleeved clothing, use a respirator, goggles and rubber gloves. You should wear a headdress on your head.

Even if the product has almost no odor, it does not become less dangerous. On the contrary: not smelling, it is easy to lose vigilance and inhale insecticidal aerosol. Believe me, when people neglected the elementary safety rules when dealing with insecticides, nothing good came of it, or rather, sometimes very bad and dangerous situations happened.

During the treatment with aerosols and sprays, all tenants and pets should be taken out of the apartment. Upon completion of the procedure, the apartment or house is closed. Usually in 2-3 hours a wet cleaning is carried out in the apartment, and people can return to it.

When processing itself, special attention should be paid to those places in the room where insects can be found.The degree of spraying of key surfaces in the house will largely determine the effectiveness of the treatment.

It should be borne in mind that insects in the room may appear again. They may come out of eggs laid by the already dead ancestors, come from neighbors, or be brought into the apartment with new things. Therefore, you should always be prepared for the need for re-treatment, as well as regularly carry out preventive measures to protect the premises from single individuals.

 

What you need to know when choosing a disinfestation service

 

The video shows a good example of processing an apartment from insects using cold mist.