A flat body with a length of 5-8 mm in a rounded shape is equipped with six legs and a proboscis, through which the skin is first punctured and then saturated. Depending on how full the body is with blood, the color varies from brown to red-scarlet. The fed bug is significantly increased in size and becomes more elongated. It also looks darker after molting. Such a flattened shape makes them virtually invulnerable to mechanical destruction.

The oral apparatus is a proboscis with two channels. One injects saliva with a special anesthetic, the second absorbs blood. It is because of the natural anesthetic of the bug that people do not feel bites, and only find it when they wake up. The peculiarity of home bugs is that for full saturation they need 5-7 skin punctures. After the attack, red papules remain, forming a kind of line, which distinguishes them from other arthropods or skin allergies.

How can bugs appear in an apartment

Unlike other insects, which are able to move long distances, in most cases the bedbugs are brought into the apartment by the owners themselves. This happens in various ways:

Another, no less popular way is migration from neighboring apartments. This occurs in two cases:

The family of domestic bugs does not immediately make itself felt, because for a long time they are able to be without food. By the time of detection, the colony is already reaching a significant number. Clear signs of their appearance are:

• An abundance of brown scales and droppings near the bed;
• The peculiar smell of old cognac in an infected room;
• Dried blood stains on the bed.

All these factors indicate that urgent help is needed from disinfestation specialists.

Methods for processing a sofa from bedbugs

Painful itching, multiple traces, painful redness, discomfort and disgust, sleep disturbances - all these symptoms make people immediately start a fight. There are various ways that victims resort to get rid of bedbugs:

1. Folk - the most affordable and cheapest. For the persecution of bloodsuckers, you need to use various essential oils, process mattresses, sofas, other furniture, upholstery with temperature, i.e. steam or iron or freeze the apartment. The disadvantage of these methods is that they help to remove only adults, the larvae are invulnerable to such methods.
2. Mechanical - the destruction of visible pests physically or the use of various traps, lures, both industrial, adhesive, and homemade (cans of water near the bed, bromine powder, etc.). Because of its microscopic size, insects are able to overcome any obstacles, so this method is the most useless.
3. Chemical - the use of various industrial solutions, aerosols, powders by residents themselves, in order to bring bugs out of sofas, mattresses. The disadvantage is that a harmless agent does not affect the entire colony, and a poisonous drug can provoke an allergy or cause poisoning.
4. Disinsection - treatment of an apartment by the sanitary service. This method is the most effective to get rid of pests, because it combines the use of:

• Insecticides - substances that act in a complex way. The tool destroys the chitin layer of both adult bloodsuckers and eggs, causing poisoning of the entire body.
• Fog generator - professional equipment allows you to process the apartment without significant time, physical and financial costs. A special solution is sprayed with small particles and settles, which is why insects have no chance to avoid contact.
• In compliance with safety precautions - in contrast to self-harassment, when processing by the disinsector, residents are always protected from accidental poisoning or deterioration of health.

For home bugs, upholstered furniture is a favorite habitat. And not at all because it is dark and warm there - for them, these criteria for choosing a home are secondary. Yes, and "bed bug" - the name is more popular than scientific and professional. All bugs that feed on blood and live in a person’s dwelling belong to the same species and are called bed, and already popular rumor gives them the names “sofa”, “home” and others

A variety of folk remedies such as strong-smelling herbs or tinctures usually do not give a result.   And such strong ones as turpentine, methylated spirits or a mixture of them with vinegar can spoil the sofa forever. Of course, they are not applicable if bugs were found in a new sofa.

The most effective way has always been and will be the processing of the couch by special pest control services, but the same method is the most expensive. And if the bedbugs except the sofa did not have time to master other areas of the house, then it will be irrational to call specialists. It is easier to resort to the help of Karbofos or the executioner.

How bugs populate sofas

You might be wondering in the sofa. The answer is usually quite simple: insects either come from neighbors, or come on clothes, with bags or any equipment from shops or from guests. Once they drank blood from a person sleeping on a sofa in a room new to them, they do not crawl away, but remain in the crevices of the sofa in order to repeat the meal in a few days.

One female or two or three larvae in a new couch is enough for a whole colony to appear here in a few months - the bugs reproduce and grow very quickly. You may even get the impression that bedbugs wound up on the couch in one night. Especially for those who are not too sensitive to their bites and did not feel a single attack.

Strictly speaking, bugs do not have a colony as such, they just get together and create the impression of an organized group. Here they lay their eggs, they shed here, and therefore, even without the detection of running insects, their presence in the couch can be easily calculated according to certain signs.

We are looking for bugs and find out whether they are

Before finding bugs in the sofa, the landlord can almost always notice other signs of living together with these insects:

1. Bites If there are few bugs in the sofa, then their bites can be mistaken for mosquitoes. But when the colony grows, abundant lesions in the morning cannot be confused with anything: they even cover a body well wrapped up for the night, and among the general set of red dots you can find noticeable “paths” of three or four bites. This is the "handwriting" of the bug, which for one feeding feeds a person several times.
2. Excrement. Often they come across under the sofa when cleaning the apartment: small black dots that look like simple pieces of dirt from the street. If they appear regularly in the bedroom, you should be vigilant.
3. Smell. Not too strong, smelling like almonds or raspberries. Usually it starts to feel good with a large number of bugs, and people who are especially sensitive to smells will feel it quickly.

If the sofa itself is disassembled or the mattress is lifted, it becomes immediately clear whether bugs are hidden in it. No other insects occupy sleeping places with such dense colonies. Therefore, when the hectic movement of small cockroach-like creatures of different sizes is visible on the underside of the mattress, it can be said for certain that bedbugs wound up on the couch.

See also our experiments on bed bugs:

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A few words about how sofa bugs look: they look like cockroaches, only small and quite wide. They run fast, but slower than cockroaches, and if you look closely at them, the absence of wings catches your eye. In addition, the color of the bugs is monophonic, while the red cockroaches have spots in the cephalothorax.

Bed bugs are the most common type of domestic insect. Scientifically defined as "bed bugs", which the people call the place of nesting: linen, furniture and sofa pests.

Appearance

Life cycle of incomplete transformation: a nymph (larva) hatches from an egg, after the first meal, the first molt occurs, 4 molts are enough for the nymph to turn into an adult (adult), ready for reproduction. Look at the bed bugs look at the photo, photos are enlarged under a microscope.

The traumatic reproduction, the female is fertilized once during the entire life cycle. The eggs are stored in a specially adapted organ for this Berlese. Every day, the female is able to lay 5 to 12 eggs, and for the entire life cycle up to 500 individuals.

Sofa bugs are unusually prolific. One female, who settled in the room, is able to become the progenitor of a whole colony. Enough 30-40 days to form a large population. Look at the types of sofa bugs in the photographs in the gallery of entomologists.

It is worth paying attention to the fact that sofa synanthropes are homophagous (blood-sucking) who prefer to eat fresh human blood. In attacks of hunger, they can eat the blood of small warm-blooded people.

Bloodsuckers bite painlessly, when piercing the skin, they are able to secrete an anesthetic substance, which is contained in salivary secretion. However, they do not have compounds that are responsible for blood coagulation, so each puncture is accompanied by droplets of your blood. Look at pictures of bites from sofa bugs.

Signs of the appearance of insects

If you saw at least one sign, then it's time to sound the alarm and think about how to bring out sofa bugs at home.

In order to verify your suspicions, you can do the following: set the alarm at 3-4 o’clock in the morning and turn on the light sharply. At this point, you will be able to see firsthand the scattering insects.

Are sofa bugs dangerous? Of course, because in addition to discomfort and sleep disturbance, sensitive people, especially children, may experience severe allergic reactions, in such cases it is necessary to immediately get rid of bed bugs.

Allergy Symptoms:

• with multiple bites in an adult, the development of anemia is possible, in children the development of iron deficiency anemia, which indicates a violation of the blood composition;
• rashes on the body, the appearance of swollen blisters and ulcers;
• when combing the affected areas, infection with various diseases is possible;
• daily night attacks provoke panic and depressive states, up to nervous exhaustion, which leads to a loss of strength and performance:
• particularly sensitive people may develop Quincke's edema, shortness of breath, suffocation, up to anaphylactic shock.

With extreme manifestations, urgent hospitalization and treatment is required under the supervision of specialists.

How to bring out sofa bugs at home and how much is it necessary?

Bedbugs are carriers of serious viruses: plague, typhoid, tuleryemia, Q-fever and others. Transmissions to humans have not yet been revealed that can not be said about infection with hepatitis C and helminthiasis. Infection from bedbugs with hepatitis and worms is quite common.

In order to understand how to get rid of sofa bugs, you need to know where they are located in the sofa.

The sofa is a rectangle-shaped structure, consisting of a back, stand, frame and secondary power elements, especially in complex structures.

Having studied the places of settlement, you can understand how to get rid of sofa bugs at home.

Several options for where the bed bugs come from:

Where does the sofa bug come from, how to deal with it, and why do insects choose sofas?

Sofas meet all the comfort characteristics that bloodsucking synanthropes prefer:

It is important to know how to get rid of sofa bed bugs at home.

Insect extermination methods

The sofa requires special care when choosing tools for processing, as this is your berth.

• Firstly, the product should be odorless or the smell should quickly disappear. There are such drugs, after processing which you can no longer sleep on your couch because of a suffocating "aroma", and for allergy sufferers this is simply a disaster;
• Secondly, products can leave stains, traces and stains, which will greatly affect the aesthetic appearance of the product.

How to bring out bed bugs using folk remedies will tell recipes of our grandmothers.

Some of the most effective folk recipes

You will need:

• table vinegar - 1 liter;
• turpentine 3 tbsp., 3 cups boiling water, mix with chopped laundry soap;
• turpentine 30 ml., kerosene 40 ml., 300 ml of boiling water;
• the safest recipe that does not leave a smell and stains: naphthalene 10 gr + 300 ml of methylated spirits.

Your actions:

1. The components are mixed, the resulting solution is poured into a spray bottle. Next, proceed with the sequence of actions.
2. Fold out the sofa, if the soft part is removed, then lay it separately.
3. Glue a double-sided tape around the treatment site so that the surviving bugs could not escape to another place.
4. Spray the solution liberally onto each seam, crease, joints, cracks and chips. Work on all sides, front and back. Do not forget the backrest, armrests, frame, bottom, linen shelves and even legs.
5. Be sure to use protection: gloves and a respirator.
6. The procedure needs to be repeated several times, it is recommended to use different recipes.

These recipes have allowed many to get rid of sofa bugs at home.

The most common way is undoubtedly insecticide disinsection. Many people prefer this particular method, considering that in one treatment it is possible to exterminate all the bloodsuckers once and for all.

Sales funds

We offer the most common insecticidal drugs.

Microphos + (Extermin F).

• powerful effective microcapsule agent with a wide spectrum of action;
• provides instant death of any insects;
• has a prolonged effect for two months;
• barrier disinsection lasts for two years;
• safe for people and animals;
• with success it is applied in any rooms, it is ideal for children's rooms, a berth, hospitals;
• easy to use.

• processing protection required;
• relatively high price.

Executioner.

• one of the most popular drugs that has a lot of positive reviews;
• gives a quick effective result;
• harmless to humans and pets;
• simple and easy to use;
• does not leave spots and stains;
• it has a slight smell of kerosene, which quickly enough leaves by airing;
• affordable cost.

• it is necessary to check all the data, since there are a lot of fakes;
• with frequent use, insects develop resistance.

Pyrethrum (Dolmatian daisy).

• properties decrease when exposed to sunlight;
• hard to buy on free sale.

Pre-read the instructions for the use of drugs to get rid of sofa bugs independently and effectively.

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Reasons for the appearance

If the user decides what to do - bedbugs are stuck in the couch, first you need to determine the reason for their appearance, which will avoid re-infection.

Why are they dangerous?

With high sensitivity, more pronounced allergy symptoms may occur: blisters, extensive redness, swelling. If there are a lot of bugs, the intensity of manifestations increases, sleep is disturbed, a person becomes irritable. Severe allergies can result in anaphylactic shock.

How to get bedbugs: effective methods

Chemicals

• Karbofos;
• Executioner;
• Malathion;
• Clean house;
• Dichlorvos;
• Combat
• Raptor.

If it is not possible to remove the upholstery and wash it at high temperature, use boiling water or a steam generator. Bedbugs instantly die at temperatures above + 60 ° C.

You can get rid of them in a mechanical way. To do this, you first need to inspect the sofa, all the cracks, remote areas, look under the upholstery. However, it is important to remember that in a hungry state the body of blood-sucking insects is flat and quite solid. Crushing them is extremely difficult.

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The appearance of bedbugs on the couch becomes an extremely negative discovery among people who have discovered incomprehensible itchy bite marks on their bodies, waking up in the morning from unpleasant and unfamiliar sensations. Usually, those who do not expect such an invasion do not even know what the sofa bugs look like, and have never encountered them.

Feeding on human blood, settle:

• in a new sofa;
• willingly live in the old, which has already become familiar habitat;
• placed in the slots with which sofas abound, especially old, whimsical designs;
• both the back and the abdomen, ticks like to feel support, and therefore clog in the gap.

The time of bed bug activity is closer to 5 in the morning, when a person’s sleep is especially strong, and those who do not have hypersensitive skin may not notice bites until the number of insects increases so much that the person wakes up from them.

In this case, a logical question arises of what bugs are getting on the couch, and is it possible to get rid of them so as not to wake up from the attacks of blood-sucking aggressors in the morning. The appearance of sofa bed bugs in the apartment is not related to their furniture preferences.

A bug appears in the place where its main source of food sleeps, keeping it warm and replete with cozy corners, from which it is not necessary to get to the main food for a particularly long time.

Likely routes of entry

Bedbugs just settle nearby, feed, breed and crap, leaving characteristic traces, and when the owner looks inside the sofa, there is an impression of the presence of dust in the pallet and between the cracks.

Therefore, most often, the owners begin to look for ways to get rid of bed bugs on the couch on their own.

Ways of deliverance, long and few

Finding how to handle furniture, and to avoid damage to it, and what to do to sleep peacefully and not walk with traces of combed bites, leads to a simple conclusion: there are few ways to get bedbugs out of the sofa yourself. Some of them are unacceptable in the existing conditions, some are toxic and require the movement of people from the premises. There are reliable and expensive methods, and there are unaesthetic, ineffective and disgusting, but free.

The most reliable, and giving a full guarantee of the result, is to call the pest control house. First, you will have to relocate the household for a while, and for a short time refuse to use furniture, carefully ventilating the room, avoiding poisoning.

Many produce pest control on their own. This will require:

• personal protective equipment for the skin and respiratory organs;
• acquired insecticide;
• compliance with safety rules;
• removal of people from the premises.

There are optimists who prefer to crush bedbugs with their hands, and leave disgusting marks on furniture, a specific smell, without bringing any tangible results.

Alternative Remedies

Alternative means - a safe, and judging by the reviews, an effective way to process furniture from bugs, without causing any inconvenience to anyone, and not moving home to another room.

Insects do not tolerate temperature effects:

• it is enough to take out the sofa on a 20-degree frost, let it stand for a couple of days, and forget about the problem;
• the temperature above + 50, which can be achieved with a building hair dryer, also works.

It is difficult to predict the state of the furniture after that. One thing is clear - you need to do everything possible and get rid of them. Experts advise using phyto-remedies in the fight against bedbugs, if it is not possible to carry out radical treatment:

The smell of lavender destroys bedbugs

Bed bugs can deliver not only discomfort, but also cause allergic lesions, intoxication, general malaise, if their bites are multiple. In no case should preventive measures be used, allowing them to spread around the apartment.

After all, insects can live not only in furniture, but also in clothing, laying eggs on it, and multiply at an incredible speed. Only radical deliverance is needed.