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Blood-sucking bugs

Blood-sucking bedbugs are the only insects listed here that literally live in beds, sofas, bedding, and the folds of mattresses and pillows.

The size of bedbugs most often varies between 5–7 millimeters, the bodies of females are rounded, those of males are more elongated, the color is brown, copper, or reddish-brown.
The larvae look like smaller versions of adult bedbugs, but are lighter in color and smaller in size.
Bed bugs leave behind a brown, corrosive dirt that is easy to find in places where insects accumulate.
Bite marks look like swollen red dots, which always appear in several pieces and line up in a chain.
When bugs puncture the skin, they inject an anesthetic into it, so the moment of the bite may not be felt; in larvae, this body system is underdeveloped, so their bites, on the contrary, can be painful.

In Moscow and the Moscow region, two types of bed bugs are found in apartments - bed
(Cimex lectularius) and
tropical ones
(Cimex hemipterus). If you do not take into account extreme situations, when the number of insects in the room is close to catastrophic, then bed bugs will bite mainly at night, tropical ones - during the day.

Where do bedbugs hide?

When feeding does not occur, bedbugs hide in different places secluded from humans. Bed bugs can be found in the bed area near seams and tags or where mattress springs are attached, as well as in cracks in the bed frame and at the head of the bed. If the room is heavily infested, then you can find bed bugs in the most unusual places:

In the seams of chairs and couches, between pillows, in the folds of curtains

In desk drawers

In electrical outlets and appliances

Under loose wallpaper and wall hangings

At the junction where the wall and ceiling meet

In the baseboards

Because bed bugs are about the thickness of a credit card when hungry, they can easily squeeze into very small hiding places. If there is a crack in your apartment as wide as a credit card or larger, bed bugs may be hiding in it.

Fleas

A person can be bitten by several types of fleas

and all of them are carriers of parasites and various diseases, from helminthiases to plague, borreliosis and various types of typhus.

The size of fleas living in the Central region of Russia usually varies between 0.5–3 millimeters, so the insects look mostly like dark moving dots.
A flea bite always feels like a sharp, burning pain at the site of the skin puncture.
A small, hard, dried drop of blood may remain at the site of the bite.
Insects are not particularly scrupulous in choosing a place on the body to feed on, so they can bite in any open areas of the skin.
The flea bite begins to itch instantly and itch severely for several days.

Fleas do not tend to gather en masse to nest in a specific place, so they can live scatteredly anywhere in the house, not necessarily in or near the bed. If you suspect that it is fleas that are biting you, they live throughout the room.

Helpful advice

If you are not sure which insects are bothering you and the description of the nature of the bites still leaves you in doubt, if possible, try sleeping in different rooms and on different beds in the house and track how, when and where you do or do not get new bites. This way you can assess the scale of the problem and, perhaps, weed out several variants of pests using the process of elimination.

Why do bedbugs appear in bed?

Bedbugs always enter premises from somewhere outside, except when you move into an apartment where they have already lived before you. Insects can accidentally “arrive” in the house for:

Your clothes and shoes
Pet hair
Packaging materials for goods
Books and magazines
Used purchases
Furniture, including new
Luggage and bags

If bedbugs live somewhere in the house - in the basement, in the attic, with neighbors, they can crawl into the apartment themselves through ventilation shafts, communication channels, cracks and open windows. The main reason why bedbugs appear in bed is purely practical - for parasites this is the most convenient place to feed.

At night, a person, practically without moving, spends a lot of time in bed, which gives bedbugs the opportunity to feed slowly and at the same time remain in relative safety, because the food literally comes to them and kindly freezes for several hours, even at that time of day, which is when pest activity peaks.

Helpful advice

After bedbugs enter the house, the first bites begin to appear within a week on average. During this time, bedbugs find all the sleeping places in the house by smell and set up their nests in them or next to them. This period is the best time to bait pests.

Lice

Lice

provoke the development of pediculosis and can be carriers of typhus and relapsing fever.

Depending on the type of lice, the length of their light, oblong or round bodies can range from 1 to 4 millimeters.
Most lice live directly on a person and constantly feed on his blood; body lice can live in things or a room, but not very far from the food source - a person.
Lice bites are not felt, but after some time, which depends on the individual characteristics of the body, they begin to itch.
If there are a large number of pests, their bites may merge into single red spots on the skin and become covered with a white flaky crust.

If you suspect that there are lice at home, you should start looking for them not from the bed or room, but from your own body. Insects can live on the head, eyebrows, mustache, armpits, groin, any place where hair is longer than 2-3 millimeters. Body lice can also be found on fleecy fabrics, which are similar in structure to hair.

Why does mold appear on wallpaper, what is it like and how to get rid of it?

The presence of mold on the walls is typical not only for old houses, but also for new buildings. The black spots that appear on the wallpaper do not decorate the apartment at all and cause significant harm to health. When the first black spots are detected, you should immediately begin to fight mold. This article describes in detail the causes of blackening, discusses the types of household mold, as well as methods for preventing and combating formations on wallpaper.

Midges

Midges in the house can be understood as pests that, according to the official scientific classification, belong to this family

, and in general small flying insects, the species of which cannot be determined by eye.

Carnivorous midges can either tear out pieces of skin and feed on them, or drink blood.
The skin reaction to a midge bite can be different and depends on the type of parasite; sometimes it can be a rounded red micro-abrasion that does not cause any sensation, sometimes it can be intense redness, itching and swelling of the skin several centimeters in diameter around the site of damage.
, the bite of midges
in the Central region of Russia is not felt by humans.
You don’t need to look specifically for midges; if they are found in your home, you can easily notice them swarming or flying near the food that interests them.

Not all midges bite; many of them feed on indoor plants, microflora growing in damp places at home, your food and pet food. These types of midges can and should also be combated.

Mosquitoes

Mosquitoes are a whole family of insects that feed on blood. They can enter your home through open windows and vents, through ventilation or drainage systems and are one of the most common pests in the warm season.

Mosquitoes have dark gray bodies, up to 1 centimeter in length, and transparent wings located parallel to the body.
Insects emit a characteristic monotonous squeak during flight, which is easy to hear if the parasite is hovering around your head.
Mosquito bites are sometimes felt, sometimes not, it all depends on the individual sensitivity of the skin and where your attention is directed - most often, if people are passionate or busy with something, the moment of the bite goes unnoticed.
The bite itself looks like redness that is dense to the touch, itches, and sometimes there is a small swelling around it, but in most cases it goes away after 1–4 hours.

Mosquitoes breed in water and places with high humidity, so they cannot literally live in your bed, however, it is more convenient for them to feed on your blood precisely while you are sleeping, so bites are often discovered in the morning.

Cockroaches

Cockroaches may begin to bite if their population in the house lacks other food or it is out of reach, or if they have already become accustomed to feeding on human and animal tissue elsewhere and then crawled to you. In practice, this rarely happens yet, but you cannot completely exclude the possibility that it is cockroaches that bite you in bed.

The sizes depend on the type of cockroaches
, their gender and stage of development; they can be from 1.5 to 6 centimeters in length, on average about 2.5–4 centimeters.
The color can be red, black, brown, copper or brown.
When a cockroach bites, it tries to tear off a piece of skin from you, so the marks of these attempts look like superficial, ragged abrasions of any shape.
Sometimes a cockroach does not have enough strength to tear off that piece of skin that it has coveted, then a piece of it remains next to the wound and gradually dries out.
If you have sensitive skin, dark spots similar to bruises may occur at the site of the bites.

If your bites fit the description of cockroach bites, carefully inspect the entire room where you sleep, as well as the kitchen and bathroom. If you have cockroaches, you are likely to find them when examining them in dark and damp areas of the apartment.

Unembedded metal reinforcement

Rust from protruding nails, screws and metal elements due to contact with glue and high humidity conditions during wallpaper installation cause the formation of yellow spots.

How to avoid. Carefully putty all metal elements: self-tapping screws to which drywall is screwed, wall reinforcement, reinforced concrete floors, nail heads. The layer should be sufficient to protect the parts from reacting with the glue and forming rust.

Hives

The harmless urticaria butterfly has nothing to do with it; we are talking about one of the types of dermatitis, whose manifestations are easily confused with insect bites. Urticaria is characterized by red, itchy blisters that resemble nettle burns, which is where it gets its name. Most often, the disease is of an allergic nature, but blisters can appear without an obvious reason one at a time, several at a time, or en masse at once.

The main difference that allows us to distinguish this form of dermatosis from insect bites is that urticaria leaves blisters with a uniform surface; there is no visible point where the bite was made. It may be difficult to see with the naked eye, but a magnifying glass and phone camera can help you enlarge the blisters to the required size and thus more accurately determine their origin.

Carefully!

Insect bites can cause an allergic reaction of varying severity and lead to infection with any infections and diseases. If, after discovering bites, your health worsens or you begin to notice any alarming, uncharacteristic manifestations in the functioning of your body, be sure to consult a doctor.

How to get rid of insects in bed?

To get rid of insects in bed:

Unfold the sofa or bed, take out all the things from the drawers, remove the bedding.
Carefully inspect each element separately for the presence of insects or traces of vital activity; it is most convenient to do this in daylight and using a flashlight.
If you find pests, eggs or other signs of presence, take a vacuum cleaner with an empty dust bag and collect them, then remove the bag from the vacuum cleaner and dispose of it immediately.

The frame of a sofa or bed, storage boxes, slatted bottom and other structural parts of the sleeping place can be treated with insecticides in ready-made form against the type of pests that have settled in your home. Tools such as:

Clean house
Varan
Combat SuperSpray
Super cobra
Dr. Klaus universal
August Insecta
Medilis-Superpower
Raptor 17 types of insects
Raid Lavender
Universal crips

Use any product according to the instructions for its use. When handling, wear closed clothing, rubber gloves and a respirator to protect your respiratory tract.

Carefully!

Do not treat bedding and accessories with insecticides!
To clean bedding or individual items from insects and traces of their presence:

Place the item in a plastic bag, seal it tightly and place it in the freezer of a refrigerator at a temperature not lower than –15°C for 5–7 days.
After the specified time has passed, remove the item, shake it over the bathtub, remove insect remains if there are any, and wash as usual.
After washing, a clean item must be ironed at the maximum permissible temperature for additional disinfection.

Unfortunately, it is not always possible or advisable to clean bedding and accessories.
If the dirt has become ingrained, if possible, throw away the damaged item and replace it with a new one. All these instructions apply specifically to those cases when insects literally live in your bed. If you have established that at night you are bitten by parasites that live not in your bed, but in your room or the entire apartment, it will be necessary to fight them based on their type and lifestyle.

When trying to get rid of insects only in a bed, armchair or chair, remember that this may not be enough to get rid of the problem completely. Even if you manage to destroy insects precisely, there is no guarantee that they are not hiding somewhere else in the room or apartment. If this is the case, and most often this is the case, then some time after disinsection of the bed you will again begin to be bitten at night, because the vacant place of the destroyed insects will be taken by those that lived somewhere nearby. For this reason, it is always advisable to treat the entire apartment.

The fastest, easiest and most effective way to get rid of insects in your bed forever is to order the treatment of the entire apartment at the SES. You will still have to wash and freeze bedding and accessories yourself, but professional treatment will eliminate the likelihood of the problem reoccurring in the future.

Get rid of bedbugs in an apartment quickly: methods of extermination

Since insects are active at night, traces of their nocturnal feeding are usually discovered only after waking up in the morning. Often, the small red bumps that remain after the “night hunt” of parasites are confused with an allergic reaction, which actually look similar.

If you see bedbugs on your bed (photo), you need to take immediate action

However, there is a significant difference: with bedbug bites, the red spots that appear in the morning are located close to each other, forming a so-called path. In addition, the number of such spots on the skin increases daily, as the population of bed bugs is constantly growing.

What other traces, besides bites and smell, can bedbugs leave? Like all living beings, bedbugs undergo a digestive process, the result of which is the excretion of food residues that have not been digested.

You can find insect excrement anywhere in your apartment. However, their greatest accumulation is usually concentrated near the bed or even on it - on the sheets, duvet cover or on the mattress. From this we can conclude that the bedbugs themselves are hiding somewhere nearby. The smell of parasite feces is a bit like poor quality cognac.

Photos of bedbugs on wallpaper

After the nymph hatches from the egg, it begins to develop and grow, molting several times. Each time it sheds its chitinous coating, which becomes darker and denser as the insect ages.

The most shocking and obvious evidence of the presence of pests in the apartment is the discovery of an adult living individual. If you have any doubts or detect particles that look like traces of bedbugs, you need to check all the places where insects may be hiding.

Good afternoon Today I would like to talk about a problem that everyone can face - bedbugs. I didn’t even know that they existed in our time until I went on vacation with friends at the seaside.

We rented an apartment, the conditions at first glance were excellent, but this lasted until night fell. While falling asleep, I noticed some strange insect that crawled out from under the seam of the mattress; when I lifted it, I discovered hordes of bedbugs. Naturally, I didn’t want to sleep anymore.

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