Why a bug? Bedbugs in the apartment: reasons

• Carefully inspect mattresses and pillows;
• Look into the drawers for storing linen and sleeping accessories, and, if possible, examine other internal elements of bedroom furniture;
• Look under the rugs on which the sofa or bed sits;
• Move aside the furniture and examine the walls and baseboards, cracks in the parquet;
• Check the back of wall accessories - paintings, rugs, clocks.

If during the inspection of the premises you were able to find skins shed by bedbugs during molting, traces of excrement (small dark dots on surfaces), dead insects resembling bedbugs, then this is them.

Now your task is to think through a pest control strategy. Let's take a closer look at why bedbugs are so difficult to get rid of.

Like any other living creature, evolution took care of bedbugs, giving them good survival mechanisms. If cockroaches take first place in the ranking of the most tenacious insects, then bedbugs certainly belong to second place.

Adult insects can starve for a very long time (in some cases up to 2 years), in conditions of lack of food or cold (down to -15°C) they fall into suspended animation and remain viable.

The reproduction of bedbugs deserves a separate discussion. The type of reproduction is traumatic insemination; future offspring can be stored for a long time in special organs of the female, and in case of extreme hunger, the eggs are phagocytosed.

During her life, each female lays from 250 to 500 eggs, up to 5 eggs daily. After 30-40 days, offspring appear from them, which also thirsts for your blood.

The lifestyle of bedbugs in an apartment also creates additional difficulties: insects hide during the day in hard-to-reach places, so they cannot be destroyed mechanically.

There are also difficulties with choosing chemicals for their destruction. Entomological scientists note that domestic bugs have successfully adapted to many poisons. The “younger” the insecticide, the more likely it is that it is based on new developments in the disinfestation market that are effective in controlling bedbugs.

Traditional methods of fighting bedbugs

Faced with the appearance of bedbugs in an apartment, supporters of simple and environmentally friendly methods will try to get rid of bedbugs using traditional methods.

Most Popular folk remedies from bedbugs:

• Freezing insects;
• Treatment with steam or boiling water;
• Repelling insects with herbs (wormwood, tansy, Persian chamomile, wild rosemary);
• Using vinegar and turpentine to repel bedbugs.

Let's talk about their shortcomings right away. Freezing allows you to get rid of any insects, but in the case of bedbugs, a low temperature (-15°) in the room must be maintained for two days; it is almost impossible to implement this method in a residential apartment.

Steam and boiling water effectively deal with clutches of eggs, and when they come into contact with insects, they also destroy them, but bedbugs move quickly and, sensing the approach of a person, will try to hide well or run away.

Herbs are good as a preventive measure; they do not destroy insects, but only repel insects for a while, allowing you to get some sleep. Vinegar and turpentine also only repel insects.

Chemicals for bedbugs

Chemistry is still the most effective way pest control of this type. There are quite a few preparations for killing bedbugs in an apartment, but, as mentioned above, not all of them can help you.

Medicines are available in the form of aerosols, concentrates, solutions and powders.

Mikrofos is a universal drug that is suitable for fighting bedbugs and cockroaches. The active ingredient is chlorpyrifos, a microencapsulated form of release, due to which the product has a longer effect on insects.

Insecticide is a concentrated product that is recommended for home treatment against bedbugs. Belongs to hazard class 3.

Other manufacturers also have anti-bedbug products. It is worth noting that it is better not to use aerosols in residential premises, as well as drugs that do not belong to hazard class 4 or 5.

How to treat an apartment for bedbugs

If you are determined to treat bedbugs yourself, we recommend that you carefully read the instructions for the drug you have chosen. Firstly, you will be aware of all possible negative consequences. Secondly, you will be able to properly prepare for processing.

What to consider when self-processing apartments from bedbugs:

• Try to treat only those areas with which you do not come into contact (under furniture, baseboards, etc.).
• Before processing, remove personal belongings, dishes and food so that the product does not accidentally come into contact with them. You can pack your things in plastic bags and put them in closets.
• Use personal protective equipment, the minimum set is rubber gloves, a respirator mask, and safety glasses.
• Dilute the drug in the concentration recommended by the instructions, do not reduce or increase its dose.
• After treatment, in order to protect yourself and your loved ones, be sure to ventilate the room and perform wet cleaning.

These simple tips will help you perform bedbug treatment without dangerous consequences. Next, carefully observe whether the number of bites has changed, and, accordingly, the number and activity of insects. If, a week after treatment, bedbugs still bother you, turning your life into a horrible dream If your night's rest is a nightmare, seek help from pest control specialists.

Professional treatment of apartments from bedbugs

Specialists of the environmental center "ECO-CAPITAL" offer you their professional help in the destruction of bedbugs in premises of any type. Highly qualified employees, rich experience in performing sanitary treatments from various types pests allow us to solve problems with any insect pests, including house bugs, as efficiently and quickly as possible.

Other important advantages professional processing from "ECO-CAPITAL" is the safety and effectiveness of our methods.

We have turned away from traditional chemicals in favor of innovative developments in the field of insecticides. We use only certified new products that have undergone thorough inspections and tests.

Unique processing technologies allow you to carefully and accurately treat the room, special equipment delivers drugs to the most inaccessible areas, effectively destroying blood-sucking insects.

Why choose us:

• Safe extermination of insects;
• No negative consequences for health and premises;
• Odorless preparations;
• Drugs with a long-lasting effect;
• One hundred percent processing result.

Our services can be used by individuals and legal entities, residents of Moscow and the Moscow region. To do this, just leave a request for the destruction of bedbugs on our website. Our operators will contact you shortly and agree on the day and time for processing.

Since the main source of food for the pest is the person himself, the cleanliness of the house has virtually no effect on the bloodsucker’s choice of place of residence. They settle in luxury hotels and old barracks with equal success.

To avoid becoming a nightly victim of these little vampires, you need to clearly know the main ways bedbugs enter an apartment.

Often, clean owners who regularly clean the house are perplexed, “Why do bedbugs appear in the house?” In fact, there can be many ways pests can enter your home. We will talk to you about the most basic ones next.

Our readers:

“I spent the night visiting. Bite in various places. More on the shoulders and back. The bites are significantly larger than mosquito bites, especially considering that my mosquito bites swell more than others. I hope I didn’t bring them with me, but it’s strange that none of the owners get bitten. So I don’t know how to tell them about it...”

Alexander, Tula

Our readers:

“We bought a brand new mattress, delivered it, started sleeping, and after a while blisters began to appear on my skin. I turned everything over and found some bugs right in the mattress! Mom said it was bed bugs! They pumped me out with ammonia! I complained to the store, the sellers said that they had nothing to do with it! Now we are suffering and thinking about how to get rid of bedbugs ourselves at home.”

Marina, Pyatigorsk

There are other reasons for the appearance of bedbugs in an apartment:

Our readers:

“I came to visit my grandmother in the village, took Musya, my favorite cat, with me so that she could nibble the grass. Of course, Musya walked everywhere, and in the evening she came to me to get her portion of affection and what do you think! I'm petting my beloved cat, and someone is crawling on her!!! Turned out to be a bedbug. It’s good that I noticed it right away and crushed it! Otherwise, neither I nor Musa would have a peaceful rest!”

Elena, St. Petersburg

It should be noted that due to the peculiarities of their structure, these pests are able to crawl even where at first glance there is no space. The bug is so flat!!! Therefore, the migration of these insects occurs incredibly quickly.

As a rule, at first, when there are not so many bedbugs, they do not bother their owners in any way. And only then, after some time, having multiplied, they reveal their presence in the home.

A little biology: about the reproduction of bedbugs

To reproduce, the female and male mate only once in their lives, after which the female is able to lay eggs throughout her life.

The female is capable of laying from 5 to 10 eggs per day. And in their entire life, up to 500. If the environmental conditions are favorable, then within a month and a half the insects will grow up and become mature individuals, which themselves will be able to continue the population.

The female lays eggs all year round, and only in case of unfavorable conditions can the process slow down. As soon as the “hard times” pass, the female will again begin to produce offspring.

Important: bedbug eggs are resistant to the same insecticides. Therefore, when choosing drugs to combat bedbugs in an apartment, you should change them.

It often happens that after disinfestation, insects die and at first no one or anything bothers you. It seems that the nightmare is over! While the surviving eggs mature and very soon larvae emerge from them, from which a new population develops in the future.

How to understand that there are bedbugs at home

If you suspect something is wrong and are asking the question “How to determine if there are bedbugs at home?”, then there are a number of signs by which you can quite accurately say that uninvited guests have already thoroughly settled in your neighborhood.

How do bedbugs appear in the house?

Main habitats of bed bugs

The sources of bedbugs can be different, but in most cases they are people.

Everyone who visits your home can be a source of bedbugs:

• familiar;
• neighbours;
• relatives;
• masters;
• workers, etc.

Bedbugs can hide in clothes, backpacks, and bags. But there are other ways.

Bedbugs can be introduced from:

• furniture;
• things;
• pets.

It also happens that insects live in a house for years and go unnoticed.

Additional routes of entry:

How can you tell if there are bedbugs in your apartment?

In order to understand that bedbugs have appeared in the apartment, you need to pay attention to the characteristic signs:

Reference. A nymph is a bedbug larva that has not reached adulthood.

Where to look for bedbugs?

Bedbugs usually settle:

What to do if there are bedbugs in the house?

There are several other methods that will help in the fight against bedbugs.

These are folk remedies containing:

• turpentine;
• kerosene;
• transformer oil;
• vinegar.

Also used:

• wormwood and tansy;
• pest sprays.

Many people argue about the effectiveness of these methods, but they still remain popular to this day.


Traditional recipes for getting rid of bedbugs:

1. 20 g of phenol should be mixed with 3 g of salicylic acid, then add about 40 ml of turpentine.
2. Add 10 ml of turpentine, 100 ml of water, then about 15 ml of kerosene, and 40 g of green soap to form an emulsion.
3. Mix 100 ml of turpentine and the same amount of kerosene. Then add 20 g of naphthalene.

These compounds need to be treated in places where insects accumulate. And as a preventive measures Places where they may appear should be treated.

Mechanical control methods:

• Surface treatment with a washing vacuum cleaner.
• Treatment with boiling water or steam at maximum high temperatures. Clothes can be subjected to this treatment upholstered furniture, home textiles.
• Using a clothes dryer. Items processed in the dryer will be free from insects with a 100% guarantee.
• Freezing. Clothes and furniture winter period It is very useful to take it out into the cold. Bedbugs are afraid low temperatures and die. It is advisable to keep things in the cold for about two days to ensure the destruction of insects. This method is suitable only for those who live in a private house.

Prevention of bedbugs

Preventive measures include the following:

If the problem has already arisen, bedbugs have appeared. This is not a reason to be ashamed and hide. This reason to take immediate and maximum effective measures . It is best to approach this comprehensively and use several methods at once. But the best thing is to keep them out of the house. After all, prevention is always more effective than control.

They were considered an attribute of poverty and unsanitary conditions. Therefore, having discovered the characteristic traces of bites of blood-sucking insects, people involuntarily wonder where the bedbugs come from in the apartment, because the cleaning is carried out in a timely manner, and the furniture is updated, and the renovation is fresh. Parasites do not show particular selectivity when choosing a habitat. For them, the main determining factors for their appearance are the presence of a power source and secluded places, and the status of the owners of the apartment, their financial situation and attitude towards cleanliness do not matter.

Appearance

The most common routes of entry

IN apartment buildings There are all conditions for the expansion of blood-sucking insects; it is not difficult for them. If they appear in at least one apartment, they can very quickly spread throughout the entire living space. Thanks to small size and the peculiarities of the geometric structure of the body, insects are able to crawl through microcracks, any gap, channels for electrical cables, ventilation holes, door and window openings.

Things get much worse when neighbors try to get rid of bed bugs using old-fashioned methods. Waving a tansy broom, treating walls and baseboards - all these methods of struggle lead to the fact that crowds of “refugees” are forced to settle in other apartments. Illiterate disinfestation is the most common reason, what causes bedbugs to appear in the apartment.

Bloodsucking travelers

Very often, the appearance of bedbugs in a house is unwittingly provoked by the homeowner himself.

People are carriers of bedbugs

Bedbugs in the house are the owners

Bedbugs don’t always come from somewhere; they can live in the apartment even before you move in. A reasonable question arises: “How is this possible? I bought a living space, lived there for several months and there were no bedbugs.” The explanation lies in the physiological characteristics of bloodsuckers. It is common for them to fall into a state close to suspended animation in the absence of food. Sensing the appearance of food sources, dormant insects wake up and continue their activities.

The reasons for the appearance of bed bugs are very diverse and it is almost impossible to completely insure your apartment against their penetration. We won’t check everyone who comes to visit for bedbugs. But there are a number of measures that can minimize the chance of insects appearing:

The appearance of a bedbug is characterized primarily by a flattened body, which helps it get between fabric folds without the risk of being crushed by a person. The length of the bug is from 3 to 8.5 mm, depending on gender and blood saturation; females are larger in size than males. Body color ranges from dark brown to dirty beige and even rusty.

In addition to the proboscis for piercing the skin, the bug has sharp bristles for secreting anesthetic saliva into the bite site.

Bedbugs are most active at night, especially when they are hungry. A well-fed bedbug increases in size, becomes less agile and more vulnerable; it is the well-fed, crushed bedbugs that leave blood marks on the pillowcase.

Bed bug lifestyle

Bedbugs have a well-developed sense of smell, which helps them find victims and places of shelter. For example, they can smell the clothes you wear most often, such as a dressing gown, and hide in it.

How long do bed bugs live?

Effective modern remedies for bedbugs

Modern drugs are very effective and can destroy bloodsucking bedbugs in one or two applications. One of the well-known insecticides that can be used independently is. Its formula reliably kills bedbugs without leaving an odor.