In bed with a bedbug: How to deal with bloodsuckers in your home With the help of scientists and exterminators, The Village figured out why bedbugs attack cities after 20 years of oblivion, how they

• By Vil Malinoshevsky
• About bedbugs

There are several clear signs that definitely indicate that there are bedbugs in the house. If at least one of these signs is present, then parasites can be found here. Moreover, these signs are universal for apartments, for private houses, for hostels, hotels, change houses - for any premises in which bedbugs can appear. And it often happens that these signs are present in the house, but the bedbugs themselves are not found in the apartment.

Let's figure out why this happens and how to find these parasites. First, how to find out that there are bedbugs in the house.

How to Detect Bed Bugs

It is quite difficult to independently detect bedbugs in an apartment, since they become active only after dark.

One option is to wake up early in the morning and try to find insects or traces of blood on a white sheet.

The effectiveness of this method is low, so other methods can be considered.

The search procedure is directly related to the environment in which bedbugs prefer to live.

The following nooks and crannies are required for inspection:

• The back surface of the furniture.
• Gaps under the baseboard.
• Carpet.
• Old books.
• Clothes that have not been used for a long time.
• Upholstery of upholstered furniture.
• Legs of chairs, beds and sofas.
• Etc.

If you carefully examine all the nooks and crannies, you can quickly find a nest with bloodsucker eggs. You will have to get rid of the latter immediately, and the easiest method for this is to use boiling water.

Eight glasses

It is not immediately possible to understand that there are bedbugs in the house, since they may not leave visible marks on the bed. The method of using plastic utensils will help dispel all doubts.

Step-by-step instruction:

• Prepare 8 disposable glasses, half of which will be larger in diameter.
• Place smaller containers inside them; fill the latter with vegetable oil, then sprinkle with talcum powder.
• Since insect activity occurs only at night, place all 4 structures under the legs of the bed before going to bed.

If you pre-treat the outside of large glasses with sandpaper, it will be easier for bloodsuckers to climb them. Once trapped in talcum powder and oil, they will not be able to get out of it.

Plate method

This is another method of how you can find out if there are bedbugs in your house.

Here are the step-by-step instructions:

• take several disposable plates.
• Treat their outer side with high-fat cream, Vaseline or any oil.
• Fill each container with baby powder.

When preparing for bed, place plates around the room. The parasite will not be able to get out of the vessel if it is stained with talcum powder.

Method without using additional traps

You can detect bedbug settlements in an apartment not only in the ways described above.

The presence of insects is determined by the bitter odor that the room emits.

Moreover, permanent residents are not always able to smell the unpleasant aroma. Then it would be wise to invite neighbors or friends.

If it was not possible to catch the bloodsuckers at night, but their presence is beyond doubt, it is worth conducting searches in daylight. Using a magnifying glass and a flashlight, you will have to examine every meter of the area for the presence of droppings or parasite eggs.

As soon as you manage to find a nest of bedbugs in the apartment, you will need to immediately carry out a complete disinfestation.

It is important to understand that traps only help detect insects. Additional measures will be required to destroy them.

Where to look for parasites first

First: if you sleep on a bed, remove the bedding and inspect the mattress. Examine the seams and corners especially carefully - both the bedbugs themselves and their larvae may be present here.

Then lift the mattress and inspect the wooden frame underneath, the joints of all wooden structures, fasteners - bolt heads, nuts, washers.

Now unscrew all these fasteners and disassemble the bed. Inspect all joints of wooden structures. Everywhere there may be either bedbugs or traces of their activity.

If you sleep on a sofa or a folding chair, then disassemble them too. Here it is also important to go under the linings on the upholstery with a screwdriver or a knife, and it is advisable to remove these linings altogether and check the space under them. All internal cavities of the sofa are also inspected. Then it is disassembled, the backs, armrests, and all the elements on which the soft parts come into contact with each other are unscrewed - it is here, between these soft elements, that bedbugs most often hide.

If there are holes in the upholstery of the sofa, then there is a high probability that bedbugs will be inside the filling. If you don’t see them anywhere else in the apartment, then most likely they are not there at all, and here, under the upholstery, they are also absent. If there is a strong infestation, you can be sure that the bugs almost certainly got inside the filling through holes, and then before treatment you will need to think: pour the sofa with the product so that it saturates the filling, or gut it, or throw it away altogether and buy a new one. If there are no holes and the upholstery does not move away from the wooden elements anywhere, that is, you can be sure that bedbugs did not get under the upholstery, then in the future this will simplify the persecution of these insects.

Likewise, you need to disassemble and inspect the crib. Children are bitten by bedbugs just like adults. And they settle in a crib just as willingly as in an “adult” sofa.

Then, move the bedside tables and cabinets away from the walls, look at their back walls, at the lower surfaces. Here and everywhere in general you are looking for either bedbugs, or their excrement or eggs, or the remains of chitinous coverings. As a rule, in places where they accumulate there is everything - eggs, bedbugs, feces, and a lot of discarded skins.

We are sometimes asked whether it is necessary to look for bedbugs in clothes. According to the experience of exterminators, bedbugs rarely settle in clothing. People often take out clothes and rearrange them, that is, bedbugs do not feel safe here and do not make nests here. By chance, single insects may appear here, but there will be no clusters of them here. Therefore, there is no need to sort through things.

But you need to remove the baseboards and inspect them, the space behind them and under the edges of the flooring - this is where bedbugs’ favorite hiding places are located. In heavily infested apartments, exterminators sometimes had to remove the parquet flooring - under it there were also breeding grounds for bedbugs, with eggs and larvae. But you need to look at the situation - if there are a lot of parasites behind the baseboards, then look beyond the edges of the linoleum or laminate. If there is one there, lift the linoleum itself.

In addition, appliances usually need to be inspected. You need to remove the case from the computer system unit, from the TV - bedbugs can hide here too. If there are bookshelves in the room, you need to remove the books from them, and remove the shelves themselves from the walls. And in them, and behind them, and in books - between the binding and the pages - there can be bedbugs.

And so on. Large toys, carpets, paintings on the walls, flower pots, furniture - all these are possible hiding places for bedbugs. They need to be examined and the parasites themselves need to be looked for here.

It is very important during such searches not to stop only at the sofa or baseboards if you find bedbugs here. The fact is that if you have already found bedbugs in your house, then in any case you will need to fight them. You are unlikely to be able to live with them, at least for a long time. And in order to get rid of them for sure, you will need to treat all their nests with poison, or steam, or simply heat all their nests to a high temperature. That is, to process all their nests, you need to open them and understand exactly where they managed to settle and where they have not yet climbed. If you do not do this, there is a risk that when baiting, individual nests will remain untreated and parasites will survive in them. This increases the likelihood that you won’t be able to get rid of bedbugs completely. That is, if you have already found these insects, then you need to identify all their nests in the apartment, so that you can then treat them all, poison them and destroy the parasites here.

How to detect a bedbug nest

Domestic bugs do not have a centralized nesting site as such or any kind of hierarchical communication with each other, like that of an ant. They accumulate in safe places, but this happens arbitrarily. To find pests in the house, you need not only to know where to look, but also how to detect a bedbug nest by its distinctive features.

These signs include:

• The physical presence of insects in a certain place.
• Brown dirty coating on things and objects.
• Chitinous plates shed during molting.
• Insect excrement.
• Brown translucent remains of larval cocoons.
• Abundance of black spots on surfaces.
• When there is a large concentration of pests, there is a specific, sugary bitter-sweet smell.

The only way to detect bedbugs at home is to carefully inspect all things, furniture and interior items. Science has not yet invented a universal insect detector in the house, so in any case this will have to be done manually, consistently paying attention to every square meter of space.

Finding bedbugs in an apartment and the places where they are most concentrated is important for a correct assessment of the situation with parasites in the house. This information will be useful to you no matter what method of pest control you choose in the future.

Causes of bedbugs

Before you directly begin to solve the problem of exterminating bloodsuckers in a residential area, you should be puzzled by the original source. It is recommended to consider the possible options where the parasites came from. After all, first of all, it is necessary to eliminate the cause, and then the effect.

Unsanitary condition of housing

Bedbugs, unlike ants and cockroaches, are not greedy for garbage accumulations, but when choosing a habitat, they will give preference to a home with unsanitary conditions. With increased clutter in the space, it is easier for parasites to hide and it is more convenient to create nests, hidden from human sight.

Therefore, when looking for the cause of bedbug infestation, they evaluate the condition of the apartment. If necessary, do general cleaning.

From neighbors

Bloodsuckers tend to migrate periodically in search of a new food source. Animals and birds are not suitable for them because of their thick fur, but humans are defenseless against them.

Therefore, neighboring parasites will soon migrate and establish themselves if their paths are not blocked: ventilation, outlet tunnels, electrical wiring and other through passages. In summer, they move along external walls. Thanks to its flat structure, insects freely penetrate into any cracks.

Mass migrations of bedbugs into neighboring apartments are possible due to baiting. If a room is treated with insecticidal agents, the parasites look for escape routes. At the same time, they do not go through the cracks, but move straight along the entrance - from one door to another. During renovations, neighbors face a similar situation. The problem is that neighboring residents do not warn in advance about such processes, thereby endangering the people living nearby.

If no safety measures are taken in time, apartment buildings will soon be completely damaged.

Carrying with things and objects

The owners themselves bring parasites or their eggs into the apartment with their belongings. This is possible if you visit a place where bedbugs are already present. The source of infection can be: cinemas, hotels, subways, train stations. Even a short period of stay in a place where there are parasites is enough to take some of it with you.

Parasites do not necessarily hide in clothes, it could be: luggage, bags, suitcases. One fertilized female falling on them is enough for the apartment to soon be filled with hordes of bedbugs. Pets that often roam freely also become carriers of insects into the house.

Purchasing used items

Buying things, interior items and furniture that have already been used is fraught with serious problems. Along with them, there is a high probability of moving and bedbugs into the house.

In this regard, caution is exercised: after purchase, the newly arrived object is carefully examined for the presence of parasites. Even household appliances can be affected

The usual place where insects hide is the interior space. Therefore, it is advisable to inspect there too.

The probability of new things being infected is low, but it exists. You must not let your guard down under any circumstances. Warehouses where goods are stored for a long time are not always maintained in acceptable sanitary conditions.

Bringing into a house with guests

Often, bedbugs are brought into an apartment along with a person who comes to visit, who himself does not suspect it. Having visited a place where blood-sucking parasites are already present, he unintentionally takes it with him. Once in a new environment, the insect settles in a new place.

Carriers can be: friends, postmen, plumbers, workers, maintenance personnel. It is quite possible to catch a bedbug on public transport or after going shopping.

Moving to a new home

When moving into a new home, owners often encounter inherited bedbugs. They could be based on the loggia for a long time without giving away their presence.

Since they love warmth, they crawl outside in the summer and fall into a comatose state in the winter. With the first warmth of spring they come to life, and sensing the newly arrived people - a source of food, they crawl inside the room.

It is recommended that immediately after the housewarming, you carefully inspect the apartment to detect possible parasitic accumulations. For the sake of prevention, disinfection is carried out, even if parasites are not detected. They do it themselves or call SES employees.

Why is it important to determine where bedbugs nest?

Pests do not come out of their shelters during the daytime. These are insects that are predominantly nocturnal. During the day they do not leave the nest, here bed bugs reproduce and young individuals develop. Insects choose places where the most suitable conditions for them are created.

For normal larval growth

and reproduction of adult individuals, a number of conditions must be met: comfortable temperature (+25...+35°C), normal humidity (60-80%), availability of food.

Bedbugs make their nests in places with a comfortable temperature for them.

If you find a nest of bedbugs, it becomes possible to destroy them mechanically. As a result, the number of insects in the apartment is significantly reduced, which facilitates faster cleaning of the premises. When an entire nest is destroyed at once, this measure makes it possible to reduce the rate of their reproduction, since there will be much fewer females, and at the same time the number of new eggs will decrease.

What do bedbugs look like?

It is very important to know what bedbugs look like at all stages of development. The first stage of bedbug development is the egg.

In shape they resemble a grain of rice, no more than 1 mm in size. The newly hatched larva is called a nymph. It has a size of 0.5 to 2 mm and is white or straw-yellow in color. During development to an adult, the bug undergoes serious changes. The adult is always dark, red-brown in color, approximately 5 mm or more in length. As it becomes saturated it becomes larger and thicker

The first stage of bedbug development is the egg. In shape they resemble a grain of rice, no more than 1 mm in size. The newly hatched larva is called a nymph. It has a size of 0.5 to 2 mm and is white or straw-yellow in color. During development to an adult, the bug undergoes serious changes. The adult is always dark, red-brown in color, approximately 5 mm or more in length. As it becomes saturated, it becomes larger and thicker.

Traces of vital activity can be excrement in the form of black dots and chitins.

To date, it has not been proven that they carry diseases. But their proximity always weighs heavily on a person. Their spread is difficult to contain, and getting rid of them is a labor-intensive and expensive process. The appearance of insects does not depend on the cleanliness of the room and is not associated with socio-economic factors. The most luxurious apartments in elite areas can be infested with bed bugs. The most important thing is that the source of their survival - a person - lives in the room.

They are nocturnal. They leave the shelter only for feeding. They feed on blood when a person sleeps. When they are hungry, they can attack during the day. Bites are applied mainly to unprotected parts of the body. They are painful, itchy and itchy. The face, neck, arms and legs suffer - those parts of the body that are outside the blanket and are easily accessible.

Symptoms appear after some time. This is due to the fact that when the skin is punctured, individuals inject an analgesic into the wound. This way they gain an advantage in time and are detected with a delay, after about 10 minutes, when the bug has already fallen off and hid somewhere nearby. Some people have traces of marks with swelling that are difficult to explain in any other way.

Bedbug larvae also bite, but they do not yet produce an anesthetic substance. Therefore, they are easier to notice on the body immediately after a biting act.

Signs of bedbugs in an apartment

To find out if there are insects in your apartment, you need to pay attention to several signs. You can tell that there are parasites in a room by looking at marks, bites on the body, and an unpleasant odor. All these symptoms cannot go unnoticed. During the day, bedbugs most often do not reveal their presence and become active only at night.

Presence of traces

You can see the traces a few days after the bloodsuckers move into the home. On furniture, near baseboards and in other places, apartment residents see small black dots located next to each other. These are insect excrements and indicate the presence of a large number of parasites in the house. Bedbug secretions are liquid and dark brown in color. But in air they quickly harden and become hard.

Females shed their chitinous shell during some periods of their lives. If there are blood-sucking insects in the apartment, people will definitely find such “husks” in the most unexpected places.

Bites on the body

Bedbugs leave characteristic bites on people's bodies. It is quite easy to detect these traces. Red spots appear on the skin, which are located close to each other. Most often, “paths” are formed. The number of bites may vary. This depends on the size of the parasite population. In some cases, up to 100 red dots can be counted on the body, but more often there are no more than 20. The bites give a person a lot of unpleasant sensations and are very itchy.

Stains on the bed

When bedbugs appear on the bed, spots and traces of larvae remain. Dark spots on the sheet are parasite feces, but they are observed quite rarely. More often, small blood stains remain on the bed linen. People toss and turn in their sleep and crush parasites. Sometimes the stains are traces of human blood, since wounds on the body do not heal immediately. When you need to figure out whether or not there are bedbugs in an apartment, you can lay down a clean white sheet and evaluate its appearance the next morning.

Stains on the bed from bedbugs.

Unpleasant odors

If there are blood-sucking insects in the apartment, this is accompanied by the appearance of an unpleasant odor. Bedbugs have glands that secrete an “odorous” secretion. This helps to scare away enemies and mark the territory so that each time you return to your permanent habitat.

If there are few insects in the room, the smell may be faint. Over time, bedbugs multiply and the specific aroma becomes more pronounced. It is pungent and reminiscent of the smell of rotten nuts. It is also compared to the smell of cheap cognac.

What does a bug look like?

Before you start looking for the habitats of blood-sucking insects, it is worth studying its appearance. Adult hungry individuals have a flattened, wingless body from 3 to 4 mm. In a well-fed state, it can increase to 8 mm. The color of the insect also depends on the degree of satiety and varies from light brown to dark brown. The bed parasite feeds once every 7-10 days. In the absence of food, it can fall into a state of suspended animation and remain in it for up to a year. Bedbugs live up to 1.5 years.

The female lays eggs with enviable regularity. Ovipositions are usually located in hard-to-reach places in the apartment. Bedbug eggs are similar in appearance to rice, only they are smaller in size, no more than 1 mm. They can only be seen with a magnifying glass. Bed bug eggs can be light in color, almost transparent or yellowish. The outer shell is very durable and contains an adhesive substance, thanks to which the egg can be attached to any surface, be it vertical, horizontal or curved. One oviposition usually contains from 5 to 12 eggs. In order to ensure the survival of her offspring, the female bedbug places her eggs in different places. The insect stays in the egg stage under favorable conditions for 5 days, and under unfavorable conditions for 25 days.

Different stages

The eggs hatch into a larva, which entomologists call a nymph. Its dimensions depend on age and range from 0.5 mm to 2 mm. The shape of the body is the same as that of adult bed bugs, only transparent. The photo shows the contents of the larva's stomach. As the nymph grows older, it molts and sheds its shell, which becomes too small for her. Over the entire period, the larva molts 5 times. The development of a nymph to a full-fledged adult lasts 25 - 40 days.

Parasites feed at night and spend the rest of the time in shelters.

Traces in the house

What to do if bedbugs are found during inspection

If during the inspection of the apartment at least one individual of a parasitic insect was discovered, then the only thing that needs to be done is to take measures to destroy them. Bloodsuckers multiply at a rapid speed and the sooner you start fighting bedbugs, the less labor-intensive and costly the process will be. Bloodsuckers will not leave their “habitated” places of their own free will. To exterminate bedbugs, you need to contact the SES or make independent attempts and purchase the appropriate insect extermination drugs that are commercially available.

Folk remedies for detecting bedbugs

You can make your task of finding pests easier. For this purpose, auxiliary means are used.

Scotch

By placing double-sided tape on the floor around the perimeter of the bed, you can check for pests in your home. At night, bedbugs will make their way to the food source and become attached. This method works if bed parasites live outside the bed.

Place the tape on the bed legs with the sticky side facing out.

Flashlight

First you need to understand what insects can look like when they are hungry and well-fed. After midnight, it is recommended to take a flashlight. Bedbugs are active from 2 to 5 am. At this time, you can check whether insects are crawling out of their shelters and where they disappear afterwards.

Carefully inspect the furniture with a flashlight, moving it away from the walls

Magnifier

A magnifying glass will be needed to examine the small eggs, the husks that the larvae leave behind. The size of this debris is no more than 1 mm. A magnifying glass is used only if suspicious white and brown specks are found in one area.

A magnifying glass is required to examine small particles.

Effective ways to determine

You can use simple and effective methods to search for parasites.

You need to purchase 8 plastic glasses. Half of them should be slightly smaller in diameter. The smaller glass should be placed in the larger one, and then the bed leg should be placed in the middle. To make it easier for insects to get into the trap, the outside of the container is treated with sandpaper. Next, sunflower oil is poured into a smaller bowl and talcum powder is sprinkled on top. In the middle of the night, bedbugs will climb onto the bedpost and get into the oil.

Plastic plate

The bottom of the back side of a small plastic plate is greased with automobile oil, and then it is placed with the greased bottom on the floor in places where parasites are likely to settle and sprinkled with talcum powder. When the insects come out of hiding and make their way through the plate, several individuals will certainly remain on the prepared bottom, entangled in talc or powder.

It can be problematic to identify the presence of pests: there is no smell, and there are no marks on the bed, only the bite sites make one know about the presence of parasites. Folk tricks will help you identify bloodsuckers.

Eight glasses

To determine the presence of bedbugs in an apartment:

• you need to purchase eight plastic glasses from a hardware store, four should be large, and four should be slightly smaller;
• place one glass in another, sand the edges with a piece of sandpaper;
• install them under the bed legs;
• pour a little vegetable oil and sprinkle with talcum powder.

Plate method

Plate method

Grease the outside of disposable plastic plates with oil or rich cream, and pour talc inside. Place a plate near the bed. Once a bloodsucker gets into the talcum powder, it will not be able to get out of it.

Early rise

This method will help you find out if there are bedbugs in the bed. To do this, you need to make the bed with a white sheet and go to bed, having previously set the alarm clock for four o'clock in the morning. When you wake up to the alarm, carefully check the sheet for small bloody spots; if you are lucky, you will find a small number of insects.

When developing a strategy for how to remove parasites from an apartment, the question arises whether bedbugs can only be in one room. Most often, no, since insects inhabit the entire room with lightning speed, their goal is to produce as many offspring as possible in favorable conditions.

Bed bugs in bed and in the house are a real grief for the owners. Restless sleep, anxiety, the feeling that someone is constantly crawling on you, does not allow you to completely relax and unwind after a hard day. Identifying a bedbug is very simple; all you need to do is make small observations. If suspicions are confirmed, it is necessary to urgently take measures to destroy bedbugs.

How to show bedbugs the door

Do you want to get rid of unexpected blood-sucking parasites in your apartment yourself? - Know that you have a serious task ahead of you. It will require a lot of time, money and patience. Fighting bedbugs alone is in vain, and you will soon understand this. Human ectoparasites are extremely prolific and spread with amazing speed. You bring them out and bring them out, but they are there and there. They migrate from apartment to apartment through ventilation, sewer, and water pipes. They are carried on the fur of dogs and cats, on things and bags, clothes and shoes. Therefore, negotiate with your neighbors and explain to them how to detect a cluster of blood-sucking insects at home. Join forces and attack the colonies of unpleasant guests with a wide front.

The methods to be used are the following:

• call exterminators;
• before this, pour vinegar, turpentine, kerosene, alcohol into the cracks in the wallpaper, furniture, behind the baseboard, wipe the books and bookshelves;
• pour hot steam over upholstered furniture;
• boil clothes, bed linen, fry seams with an iron;
• Place traps under furniture legs.

Professional exterminators use proven protective equipment. During the processing of apartments, houses, dachas, and cottages, people must leave the premises for several days. To avoid causing allergic reactions, headaches, and injury to the upper respiratory tract.

What to do

Having discovered signs of the presence of blood-sucking insects, you cannot leave everything as is and let it take its course. After just a few days, the number of insects will increase significantly. Therefore, it is urgent to take action. After all, a bug bite can not only cause an allergic reaction, but also a dangerous disease. This should also include severe itching, pain, discomfort and irritability - the result of regular lack of sleep.

The most ideal solution in such a situation is to contact a pest control service, whose employees will professionally treat the entire room. This option guarantees results, but also requires certain financial costs.

You can carry out a similar procedure yourself using chemicals. Today, on the shelves of hardware stores there are many insecticidal products designed to kill household pests. An example of this could be:

• Delta Zone;
• Executioner;
• Fufanon;
• Cucaracha;
• Combat;
• Get;
• Raptor;
• Forsyth;
• Clean house;
• Taran and many others.

A number of activities should also be carried out:

• wash and heat treat bed linen, rugs and bedspreads;
• treat upholstered furniture and mattresses with hot steam;
• It is also necessary to regularly vacuum and wash the floors.

Such measures will help clear your home of unpleasant guests.

Cleaning and disinfection

Get rid of unnecessary items to reduce the number of places bed bugs can hide. Check for bed bugs in unwanted items and think about where you can store these items until the pests are completely eradicated from the house. Check all items again before returning them to their original location. Remove dead bed bugs, blood stains, eggs, and insect droppings using hot, soapy water. Rinse all items with bed bug stains in hot water and dry them on high for at least 20 minutes. Once dry, store items in sealed plastic bags until you are sure you are completely free of bed bugs. Vacuum carpets, floors, bed frames, furniture, cracks and cracks daily using a brush and crevice tool. After each use of the vacuum cleaner, empty the dust bag or seal it and dispose of it outside the building.

Before the arrival of the disinfectant instructor, you must:

• Disassemble things, remove or pack unnecessary items, remove or isolate bedbug killers from getting on dishes, personal hygiene items, cosmetics, clothes and underwear (if you suspect the presence of insects in underwear or clothes, they must be washed), isolate food and drinking water from possible contact with the product.
• Carry out a thorough wet cleaning of the entire room, wipe all surfaces from dust, get rid of debris, organize free access for the instructor-disinfector to all areas of the treatment facility and to all pieces of furniture.
• If treatment for bedbugs is carried out, it is necessary to remove all bedding for subsequent washing, prepare pieces of furniture for treatment, disassemble as much as possible the pieces of furniture infested with bedbugs in order to thoroughly treat their internal surfaces, moving them away from the walls where possible.
• When treating for fleas, you must thoroughly wash all animal bedding (if any).
• When processing, it is necessary to remove pets, birds, and aquarium fish from the premises.
• At the time of treatment, no one should be in the room except the instructor-disinfector conducting the treatment and the customer’s representative (the instructor-disinfector has a protective mask with him and provides it to the customer’s representative for safe breathing).
• After treatment, you must leave the premises.
• The minimum time after which the treated room can be used again is 1 hour when treated with microencapsulated preparations, the optimal time is 8-12 and 24 hours (depending on the preparations used). Therefore, when deciding on the treatment time, calculate everything so that you can leave the room after treatment for the maximum possible time for you and your loved ones.
• Premises treated with the product cannot be used until they are cleaned, which is carried out no later than 3 hours before using the facility for its intended purpose.
• After you return to the room, you need to ventilate all treated rooms for at least 30 minutes, thoroughly wipe tables and other surfaces using rubber gloves with a damp cloth with a soda solution (30-50 g of soda ash per 1 liter of water). But you should not carry out a complete cleaning of the room in all hard-to-reach places, since in this case you will wash off or sweep away most of the applied drug, which can lead to incomplete death of insects and a relapse of their re-spread.

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What are bed bugs afraid of?

There are several things you can do to kill or repel bed bugs. What repels insects:

• insecticides (Raptor, Reid, Dichlorvos, Clean House, Fufanon, Agrant, Fumitox);
• high and low temperatures. Sharp temperature fluctuations are a factor influencing the activity of bedbugs. If you lower the temperature in the house to +10°C or increase it to +35°C, bedbugs will begin to look for more comfortable living conditions;
• herbs. The aromas of herbs can repel bed bugs, since they are guided by their sense of smell, for example, they are afraid of the smells of wormwood, tansy, wild rosemary, chamomile, calamus;
• essential oils or perfumes. Another source of pungent and unpleasant aromas for the parasite. A scent that repels bedbugs: essential oils of lavender, rosemary, eucalyptus or cheap cologne;
• traditional methods. Bed bugs are afraid of vinegar, turpentine, denatured alcohol, kerosene, acetone and other compounds with a pungent odor;
• Bedbugs do not like bright light. If you turn on a bright light at night, the parasites will scatter;
• bleach - this powder destroys insects if you pour it directly onto the pest source.

Preventing the appearance of new bedbug nests

You will have to remember for a long time that the room is infested with bedbugs, so check the bed, mattresses, and linens. For preventive purposes, treat corners in the house, furniture, and places behind baseboards every two weeks to prevent new nests from appearing there.

Specifically do the following:

1. Place bunches of fresh wormwood behind the baseboard. Hang in closets, hang from the ceiling in rooms. Coat the cracks with antiparasitic agents, turpentine, and kerosene. Seal them with carbolic acid.
2. Treat furniture and books with special anti-bedbug products.
3. Steam upholstered furniture. Take carpets and mattresses out into the cold in winter. At a temperature of minus 25 degrees, insects, if there are any, will freeze to death. They will also die in the summer at temperatures above plus 30-35 degrees.
4. Inspect bed linen, clothes, wash in hot water, fry with an iron
5. Wash the floors in the house with hot water with the addition of solutions of turpentine, wormwood, and pyrethrum.
6. Chemical treatment of all premises with insecticides is mandatory.

After such a massive attack, new nests of house bugs are unlikely to appear in your home.

What to do after detection

If bedbugs are found in an apartment or house, residents immediately wonder if bedbugs can only be in one room. Often this is exactly what happens, because these parasites settle in the bedroom where people rest, and they also establish their colonies there, settling in nearby places on furniture or walls.

Therefore, experts recommend starting sanitization of the house as quickly as possible to combat the “bloodsuckers”, preventing them from moving to other areas of the apartment or house. To get rid of bedbugs yourself, use chemical insecticides, which can be in the form of concentrates, sprays, or powders. Folk remedies are good only for short-term scaring. You also need to make sure that no things are transferred from the bedroom to others, so as not to contribute to the spread of parasites.

How to understand that the bedbugs are gone

At first glance, the fight against bed bugs ended in complete victory for the apartment owners?

But! It's too early to rejoice! After all, at least one surviving female is enough for the bedbug family to again begin to cause numerous inconveniences to the residents in a few weeks.

In order to sleep peacefully and enjoy sweet dreams, without painful bites, you need to do a little work that will dispel all doubts.

1. The first thing that needs to be done a few days after treatment against bedbugs is to carry out a general cleaning of the entire room, paying special attention to places where the routes of movement or dislocation of bed insects were previously observed.
2. Then, every few days you need to check the clean surfaces behind cabinets, under sofas and beds. The discovered droppings indicate that the treatment was unsuccessful, and several adults managed to survive.
3. Before the family has multiplied, it is necessary to carry out repeated treatment - most often this is enough to forget about bedbugs for a long time. If you use simple repellents - tansy or wormwood, then the insects will leave the room forever.

If you managed to destroy bed bugs the first time, then careful examinations will not yield anything - you will not be able to detect evidence of bed bugs and you can breathe a sigh of relief. But here, too, simple prevention with herbal raw materials will not hurt.

So, there are several simple ways to find out if there are bedbugs in an apartment.

Having discovered an unpleasant neighborhood at home, you need to immediately resort to the help of chemicals or folk remedies to prevent the apartment from turning into a bedbug infestation.

Also, after treatments, it would be useful to know where the surviving parasites may be hiding in order to take a control shot at the parasites - reapply the product or resort to traditional methods.

Bedbug bite - how not to confuse it with a mosquito

Everyone knows that you can find out about bed bugs that have settled in an apartment, first of all, by their bites. Despite such knowledge, many, when they detect obvious marks on the body in the form of dried small spots of blood, attribute the merits to ordinary mosquitoes, in the firm belief that bedbugs cannot penetrate into a clean room. (Read - Symptoms of bedbug bites)

What do you need to know so as not to confuse these different lovers of human blood?

1. A mosquito bites only once. But if there are several bites, they will be located throughout the body, especially in those places that are not covered with a blanket or clothing.
2. Bedbugs can easily reach the most secluded places and will certainly leave traces of their presence there - long chains of blood, evidence that the insect moved in search of vessels close to the surface.
3. During the cold season, it is impossible to find mosquitoes indoors. Traces of a bloody feast on the body, which are discovered after sleep, indicate an indisputable fact - only bed bugs could have left them.

What to remember

1. The habitats of insects act as nests for domestic bugs.
2. Bedbugs make nests in secluded places, near human sleeping places.
3. It is difficult to detect an individual bug. Clusters of insects reveal their nests.
4. It is possible to destroy bedbug nests only through a set of measures.

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Where do they live?

Many people, based on the name of insects, believe that parasites live directly in the bed. However, this statement is not entirely true. Bloodsuckers prefer to build their nests near the sleeping area. If you lay eggs in bed linen, then there is a high probability that a person will simply crush their entire family during sleep.

The question of how to see bedbugs in an apartment worries every caring housewife. You just need to know where the pests are hiding. In addition to beds and upholstered furniture, the most favorite habitats for bedbugs are chests of drawers, cabinets, cabinets, wall lamps, baseboards, window frames and doorways. Parasites often settle in cracks in walls, crevices in floors, on the backs of paintings, mirrors and carpets.

They don’t deprive even soft toys and a cavity for electrical outlets of their attention.

Here's another way to see bedbugs. When you wake up late at night, you just need to turn on the light - the pests will scatter in different directions.

Habitats of bedbugs in the house