Bed bugs are some of the most unpleasant neighbors that can be found in any home. What do you need to know about these pests in order to destroy them independently, quickly and effectively?

Bed bug information

How to detect

The first signs of bedbugs appearing in the house will be bites on the body - it is easy to distinguish them from the bites of other insects: the bug does not feed at one point, but leaves a path of bites behind it. Some of the individuals will be crushed in a dream by a tossing and turning person, so that brown blood stains can be found on the bed linen.

If you suspect the appearance of bedbugs, you need to inspect the house for eggs and insect excrement (dark small specks).

They settle in secluded places:

• the folds of furniture, under the armrests, under the upholstery;
• the seams of pillows and blankets;
• electronics, books, soft toys;
• behind skirting boards, ventilation grilles, under window sills, behind door frames, radiators;
• under the wallpaper, if it falls behind the walls.

In general, almost everywhere. The insects themselves can be seen on the walls and ceiling of the apartment, but only at night, when they go hunting. Hungry bugs have a translucent segmented body 3-5 mm long. Drinking blood, they acquire its color - from scarlet to brown, which turns into black as food is digested. Bedbugs have no wings, but due to their lightness, they can glide onto the bed from the ceiling.

Bed bugs

Bed bugs are insects from the Hemiptera family and are one of the most common household pests. Alone, they are not too dangerous - they do not bite painfully, they rarely eat and only at night. However, they breed in huge numbers and can quickly spread over a large area. In this case, it will be very difficult to get them out of the apartment.

It should be borne in mind that bedbug infestation does not mean that the house is dirty - these are not cockroaches that need garbage and dirt. These pests feed on blood, so they can settle in any room where people or other warm-blooded animals live. They get to new places through clothes, luggage and other things - you don't even need to carry a live bug with you, just a couple of eggs are enough.

Tip: after visiting suspicious places, it is recommended to carefully examine all your belongings and boil your clothes.

Reproduction of bedbugs

The bed bug is an incomplete transformation insect (no larval stage). The female lays up to 5 eggs per day, or 250–500 eggs per life cycle. Development from egg to adult takes 30–40 days under favorable conditions, and up to 100 days under unfavorable conditions.

Damage caused by bedbugs

The main problem that bedbugs bring to people is night discomfort. According to statistics, 70% of people do not notice bites in their sleep, since the insect injects a small amount of anesthetic into the skin. But subconsciously, at least the very crawling of bedbugs on the body is felt - the person tosses and turns, does not get enough sleep, which ultimately affects his psycho-emotional health and performance.

Whether bedbugs are carriers of infectious diseases is a matter of controversy among scientists. According to some reports, these insects can infect a person with such diseases:

• hepatitis B;
• plague;
• tularemia;
• leprosy;
• smallpox;
• tuberculosis.

It is almost impossible to completely get rid of bedbugs over a large area. The best option would be to throw away all the furniture and other things on which the eggs were found, and renovate the apartment. If this is not possible, you should contact pest controllers: the use of professional chemicals will provide an almost perfect result. But you can save money and use a number of household chemicals.

Dichlorvos and similar insecticides are ineffective against bedbugs - you can fight them only with powerful means based on karbofos.

In this case, a number of rules must be observed:

1. the preparations are toxic, therefore, when self-processing the premises, you need to use personal protective equipment;
2. before processing the apartment, you need to remove children and pets from the house, hide food, toys, clothes;
3. it is necessary to process, first of all, nests, as well as places where pests accumulate - the above secluded places;
4. after processing with your own hands, all windows and doors are closed, the house should be left for a day, after which it should be wet cleaned using disinfectants.
   Affected items can be taken outside, if it is cold, and frozen. The clothes should be boiled.

Liquid products

Treatment with liquid preparations is carried out using a spray bottle.

The following insecticides are most effective:

• chlorophos;
• TCFM-3;
• karbofos solution at a concentration of 0.3–1%;
• Foresight;
• "Lacterin";
• "Insect Dibro-Fin";
• "Primadid".

They should be used in strict accordance with the instructions supplied with the insecticide.

Advice: you should not repeat the treatment in the apartment with the same means, since the bugs get used to it and the effectiveness of pest control decreases.

Powders

In practice, four powders have shown their effectiveness:

It is important to follow the manufacturer's instructions exactly, without increasing the recommended concentration of the drug - it will not act faster or more effectively, and the likelihood of harm to health will increase.

How to get rid of bedbugs

The easiest way to get rid of pests is do-it-yourself heat treatment. It can be carried out in several ways:

• The apartment needs to be frozen. In winter, all windows are opened and the room is left for a day. When the temperature in the apartment drops to -15 degrees, the bugs will begin to die. Before that, you need to turn off the heating radiators so that they do not burst.
• Warming up the room up to +50 ° С. This can be done in any available way - radiators, heat guns, hot steam generators.
• Pressurized steam can also directly treat bed bugs' nests on their own, which will physically kill them.

You can also use some folk methods based on natural insecticides.

Traditional methods

Various natural remedies will help with bedbugs:

• Sagebrush. It is used in the form of infusions or dry. You can find dry wormwood at any pharmacy. It is safe for health, and it will not kill bedbugs, but its smell will make pests leave your home;
• Tansy or wild rosemary. Their flowers are scattered throughout the house;
• Infusion of dry tobacco (ordinary cigarette tobacco is suitable) - 40 g per 1 liter of water;
• Mint juice;
• Hemp oil;
• Vinegar.

6 recipes for getting rid

Bedbugs have been our neighbors for centuries. In the past, before chemical insecticides were invented, people used a variety of natural recipes for bed bug remedies.

In addition, our ancestors (especially representatives of small nations) used various conspiracies and rituals. So, in the current republic of Komi, such a ritual was popular: they caught one bug and the whole family mocked him, destroying it morally, and then letting it go. Probably, he should have told his relatives about what evil people are here, and they will all gather and run away to where no one will offend them. Of course, no one can guarantee the effectiveness of this method.

Prevention of infection

To avoid damage to the house by bedbugs, a number of simple preventive measures should be followed:

• regular inspection of the house for bedbugs;
• observance of hygiene rules - regular wet cleaning;
• boiling, steaming, ironing linen and clothes;
• checking new furniture, mattresses (even new ones) before delivering them home;
• when visiting cheap hotels, rented apartments and other questionable places - viewing the typical habitats of bedbugs;
• if the house is private, inspect and protect the attic from birds, bats and other animals that can bring bedbugs on their skins.

Tip: To prevent bedbugs from getting into dog or cat litter, you need to fill it with fresh pine shavings, which should be changed regularly.

If bugs are bred at neighbors or in the entrance, you should contact the SES for pest control, since insects will most likely get to you from the next apartment.

How much does it cost to remove bedbugs

The cost of professional disinfestation is highly dependent on the number of individuals and the affected area. Given the complexity of self-removal of bedbugs and the frequent need to re-process the room, the amount can reach enormous values. So, in the United States, for processing a residential building, they can ask for from 5 to 80 thousand dollars!

In Russia, both the area and the requests of exterminators are smaller. However, the cost is still high: even for processing a small apartment with an area of ​​up to 20 m2, you will have to pay about 20 thousand rubles. When processing a house with your own hands, you can save a lot: it will be quite possible to keep within 1-2 thousand.

Some products cost up to 100 rubles, but they, as a rule, are based on dichlorvos, and their effectiveness is low. Traditional methods are even cheaper, but more labor-intensive due to the need for repeated (often even regular) self-processing.

Thus, in order to get rid of bedbugs, you need to follow the simple recommendations of disinfectologists:

1. Before and after processing, it is necessary to do wet cleaning of the room.
2. Chemical pest control can be supplemented with effective folk remedies.
3. When self-processing, you should use personal protective equipment.
4. After a while, it is imperative to carry out a second pest control.
5. The best way to get rid of bed bugs is never to have one, so special attention should be paid to preventing infestation.

If the treatment with your own hands did not lead to anything, call specialists who will quickly remove bedbugs with the help of professional drugs.

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Bed bugs are one of the oldest insects on the planet. They harassed their primitive people hiding in caves. survived all the cataclysms and now comfortably coexist with people in city apartments. Despite the fact that they have changed over the millennia, insects are still found near humans. Chemists and biologists think how to kill bedbugs, but there is no magic drug that can solve the problem once and for all.

Why are they coming back

Interesting!

Once in the apartment, the bug seeks a lot and regularly. In order to give birth to offspring, the female needs to drink up to 10 ml of blood in one meal. Once every 5-6 days they go to the table, and having received their portion of blood, they are removed to a secluded place to digest it. With abundant nutrition, the female can lay 5-8 eggs daily. drink less blood, but eat daily, as they need food to move on to the next stage of development.

Another reason why killing bedbugs has become more difficult than 20-30 years ago is their ability to become insensitive to the drugs used. They inherit resistance. With each generation, the number of bedbugs safely surviving the use of proven and effective poisons increases.

It is becoming more and more difficult to etch out, kill bedbugs "fed" with chemicals. According to statistics, the population of domestic bugs has grown several dozen times over the past 4-5 years. In Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, more than 50% of housing is infested with bedbugs. Rich Switzerland, prim England, prosperous Germany suffer from the invasion of insects.

Chemical control agents

The use of chemicals is the surest way to kill bedbugs in an apartment in order to save yourself and your loved ones for a long time from which I represent bloodsuckers. Pyrethroids, which manufacturers use in all bed bug remedies, were synthesized in the late 1940s. The efforts of chemists, toxicologists, biochemists and biologists have synthesized the third generation of pyrethroids, which are 2.5 times superior in insecticidal properties to the second generation pyrethroids.

The bugs have developed "immunity" to pyrethroids of the 1st and 2nd generations. Research by scientists has shown that the level of resistance can reach 10 thousand. This means that in order to kill resistant bedbugs, it is necessary to use 10,000 times the dose of the drug. To enhance the effect of pyrethroids without increasing their concentration in the remedy for bedbugs, various additives are introduced into it. These can be insecticides of another group or synergists that inhibit the action of enzymes that deactivate toxic substances entering the body of bedbugs.

Interesting!

The study of the properties of pyrethrum, a natural insecticide obtained from powder of ash-leaved or Dalmatian chamomile, began in the 17th century. In the 40s of the XX century, about 20 thousand tons of dried flowers per year were produced in the world, and Japan supplied about 70% of the raw materials to the world market. In the 1930s, the industrial production of pyrethrins, extracted with the help of organic solvents from chamomile flowers, began. It took scientists more than 300 years to study the properties and synthesis of chemical analogs - pyrethroids.

In many of the most effective bed bug killing agents, organophosphorus compounds are used as the second active agent. They quickly kill bedbugs ("knockdown effect") and retain a residual effect for a long time. The disadvantage of organophosphate components is their toxicity in relation to not only insects, but also warm-blooded animals. The person processing the person is also exposed to the risk of poisoning if safety measures are not followed.

Effective chemicals

What kills bedbugs most effectively - consider the time-tested chemicals and how to use them to fight blood-sucking insects.

Clopoveron - the effectiveness of this drug is recognized not only in its homeland in Russia, but also in Europe, where it is sold under the name Bed Bugs Killer pro. The composition of the product is still unknown, although it began to be produced at the end of the 80s of the last century. It is known to contain:

• biological reagents;
• animal cells;
• insecticide with the formula C 51 H 32 N 208.

The product is available in the form of powder, granules or concentrated emulsion. An aqueous solution is prepared from them in a concentration necessary to quickly kill the maximum number of "bloodsuckers". The powder can be dissolved or used dry by sprinkling. 250 g of Clopoveron powder is enough to process a one-room apartment.

On a note!

The drug is expensive - more than 1800 rubles will have to be paid for 250 g. Cheaper analogues of Clopoveron are insecticidal and acaricidal agents, Xulate-C25.

Executioner

The owner of the house decides how and how to kill bedbugs, but the main thing is that it is safe for people and deadly for bedbugs.

Another case of bedbugs is the purchase of used furniture. Often people buy sofas, armchairs, bedside tables and televisions from other people, and bring bed bugs to their apartment on their own. If you are in the habit of buying furniture from your hands, during the transaction, you should carefully examine all the cracks and joints.

Another option is to purchase an apartment on the secondary market. Often, new owners are faced with such a problem, although there were no traces of insects when inspecting the apartment. This is because in the absence of a person and his warm blood, the bugs hibernate, in this state they can stay for up to six months. As soon as a person appears in the apartment, insects react to his warmth and spread throughout the apartment. Therefore, insects are considered tenacious creatures, which are quite difficult to get rid of the first time.

How to get rid of bedbugs

It should be said right away that in case of severe infection, it is better to turn to professionals and order processing. You can do this yourself by purchasing special chemicals and equipment for the destruction of bedbugs in the store.

But even in this case, most likely, you will have to free the treated area from furniture, remove wallpaper from the walls, and remove the floor covering from the floor. But this is only in advanced cases. If the colonies are not yet so large, and insects are identified in a timely manner, folk remedies and insecticides sold in every household chemicals store will help.

Insecticides

Now there are a lot of means for the destruction of bedbugs on sale. This is a proven chemistry that is characterized by prolonged action and effectiveness. The most popular ones are:

You can also contact a specialized store, where consultants will advise on professional chemicals. But it is worth considering that almost all of them have a pungent smell, and the apartment after processing cannot be ventilated for another 10-12 hours. Accordingly, at this time you will have to leave your home.

Folk remedies

Such methods are more suitable as a preventive measure, but can cope with a few individual individuals. The most popular home remedies are:

Other folk remedies include various plants with a pungent odor. This group includes valerian, wormwood, or tea tree oil. Plants are completely safe, but do not kill bed bugs. They scare away insects, preventing them from entering the apartment.

If you decide to process the home yourself, you must remember the precautions. All solutions should be done only with gloves, do not forget about protective masks. After processing, be sure to wash and rinse your mouth, as toxic substances can easily seep through the skin.

The main life task of these little bloodsuckers is to penetrate a person's dwelling, thoroughly settle in it, occupying all the most inaccessible places and begin their endless feeding with blood every night and reproduction.

How do bed bugs get into our house

Bed bugs are tiny insects with a flattened body, which means they can seep through any even the narrowest crevices, up to the thickness of a credit card, which means that bed bugs can get into an apartment literally through the walls from an infected neighboring apartment.

The problem of the presence of bed bugs in the home tormented people from the very beginning, therefore the problem of removing bedbugs in the apartment was also taken care of by our ancestors... And since the problem has existed for a long time, then there are proven ways to solve it.

1. Physical destruction of bedbugs;
2. Thermal destruction;
3. Getting rid of bedbugs with folk remedies;
4. Chemical removing bedbugs in the apartment.

Let's consider each method of getting rid of bedbugs in more detail. to figure out which one is best for your case

Nevertheless, it is quite difficult to get all the bugs out of the apartment in this way, since cleaning must be done very carefully and you need to know all the places in the apartment where they can hide. It is important to be careful not to harm the furniture.

Thermal way to remove bedbugs in the house... Bedbugs love warmth and can hardly tolerate very low and very high temperatures, therefore, for a long time in the villages, people practiced an effective way to freeze the house from bedbugs... When in winter people opened the windows in a severe frost and let the apartment cool completely or took the furniture out into the street. It was important to give a few hours of frost to kill insects. Nowadays, you can also "burn out" bugs in an apartment using industrial fan heaters that can heat the room up to +50 ° C, which also had a detrimental effect on the well-being of insects.

The disadvantages of this method are easy to guess - it is very difficult to freeze an apartment when the bugs start up in summer or spring, especially in St. Petersburg, it is also quite difficult to take out all the furniture outside. Well, creating an oven in an apartment with fan heaters is also a dubious occupation, at least in terms of electricity costs and the possible damage to things from such overheating.

Folk remedies... Our observational ancestors long ago discovered that insects, and in particular bugs really do not like strong and pungent odors that some plants or liquids leave behind. It will be difficult to completely drive out bedbugs with smells, since sooner or later they can get used to it, and hunger will take its toll, but here it is more likely that the person himself will start to go crazy with the aromas in the house. Therefore, this grandmother's method in modern realities raises many doubts about its relevance.

When self-processing an apartment, you should buy a professional remedy for bedbugs in a store in St. Petersburg or ready set, then read the instructions for its use, and also do not forget to take care of personal protective equipment - gloves, respirator.

The most effective way to remove bedbugs from an apartment is to contact a specialized SES service.

• The temperature threshold for an insect's life ranges from –20 to + 50 degrees;
• The use of insecticides has varied results. Most of them effectively deal with adult insects, but they leave eggs. Therefore, it will require several treatments to completely solve the problem;
• Insects are susceptible to odors. Thus, you can scare away insects, but not remove them;
• Crayons and powders are designed for contact action and therefore are ineffective in this case.

In order to completely remove bedbugs, you need to find their nests. In this way, you will have the opportunity to remove the problem completely.

Destruction of bedbugs- a complex procedure that rarely leads to a successful result when using traditional methods. The main reason for this is that bedbugs in an apartment very quickly adapt to chemical reagents. And the remedy that helped your acquaintances may no longer help you in the fight against them. A guarantee of getting rid of bedbugs can only be given by a specialized service that will efficiently and efficiently cope with the problem in one session.

How much does the Moscow region cost? Experts will use modern and proven control technologies. The cost of such a service depends on many factors and begins from 1500 rubles in one professional treatment, the destruction of bedbugs will be quick and painless for all family members.

How to prepare an apartment for processing?

• First of all, you need to take care of where your family will stay for the next day. During this period, you will need to bring your pets with you. Chemical treatment of an apartment from insects releases toxins that are harmful to the human body. Within a day they will wear off, and you can calmly return to your usual life;
• If you have a large aquarium that simply cannot be taken with you, then you must tightly close it with a lid. Bedbug treatments can harm animals;
• If you have very old furniture in your house that is high time to throw it away, then throw it out before the treatment for bedbugs begins. If there is such furniture, but you did not plan to get rid of it, then tell about it and the specialist will pay maximum attention to it;
• Pack all dishes and utensils in bags. During processing, the agent should not get on plates, pans, stove or cups;
• It is better to cover the technique with foil or bags. This will avoid short circuits. All substances dissolve in water, which can get on equipment and wires. Therefore, take care of your TV, computer and other equipment in your home in advance;
• Do not bring blankets, blankets or bedding with you. These things are the most common habitat for bedbugs. After the procedure, just wash all things in hot water;
• Move all furniture away from the walls so that it can be accessed from all sides.

The most effective and modern methods for destroying bedbugs

Today there are only two options for a radical solution to the problem:

• Professional help... Insect control services can be found in every city. At the same time, you will get rid of the problem quickly and with a guarantee. You can call both a private master and call SES;
• Deal with the problem on one's own... To do this, you need to visit a market or hardware store and purchase drugs for the destruction of bedbugs, which are most effective in dealing with bedbugs.

In addition to chemical treatment, other methods can be used:

• Folk remedies... There are many different folk remedies that can be used to kill bed bugs at home. These products are safer for your health;
• Heat treatment... Bedbugs can be poisoned by exposure to low or high temperatures, for example.

How to choose a chemical agent to combat bedbugs?

Every person who is faced with the problem of bed bugs is interested in information on how to choose an effective chemical remedy for them. What is the best remedy for bedbugs? In the apartment you can use:

• Aerosol sprays in spray cans. The advantage of this option will be that they are very convenient to use, the product is simply sprayed over surfaces and cracks in those places where bugs are most likely to appear in the apartment. It is necessary to choose remedies specifically for these insects, and not universal options. Most of these products do not have a specific odor;
• Powders applied in different ways. Some simply scatter over the surface, while others are diluted in water and spray the resulting solution;
• Liquid products are also marketed in several use cases. The chemical solution is sold ready for use or it must be diluted with water according to a special scheme.

Cold fog from bedbugs

The technology of "cold fog treatment of an apartment from bedbugs" is the use of disinfectant solutions that are aerosolized. Such processing allows you to effectively distribute the product in the room and thereby effectively fight the problem. Drops of the product will remain on the entire surface of furniture, walls and ceilings. To generate such a tool, a special generator is used. The sanitary service will help to cope with the problem.

Advantages of the cold fog method:

• The generator allows you to use a variety of insect control agents. Such sanitation is effective for combating bedbugs;
• Small drops of the solution are in the air for some time and gradually descend on all surfaces of the room;
• The sediment remains even in the most inaccessible places, so the method works effectively;
• Treatment allows you to cover the entire room with the product;
• The use of a generator saves insecticide;
• Processing is absolutely safe for human health and pets.

Hot fog from bedbugs

Hot fog killing bedbugs is quite effective, but not suitable for all rooms. It is usually used for pest control of office buildings and common areas. However, it is worth noting that this approach allows you to destroy not only bedbugs, but also their eggs, that is, the method is very effective. The Sanitary and Epidemiological Station works with this method and carries out their extermination.

In residential buildings, cold fog treatment is used. The efficiency is certainly lower, but this is enough for an apartment. Hot mist treatment is less safe for human health and therefore is less often carried out in residential premises. The city solar power plant will help solve the problem with insects in your home. You can order destruction services on the company's website.

Barrier protection against bedbugs

Barrier treatment of premises is carried out in order to prevent the appearance of bed bugs in the house. In order to achieve a repulsive effect, irrigation is carried out on the walls of special agents that contain repellents. They remain on the surface and create a repulsive effect.

It should be noted that the barrier protection does not have an unpleasant odor and is not felt by humans in any way. The products are absolutely safe for your health and odorless. Usually, for this purpose, the drug "Clopoveron" is used, which not only destroys insects, but also scares away new insects fleeing from neighbors.

To destroy bedbugs in the apartment forever is real!