Bed bugs. Signs of the appearance of bedbugs. How to get rid of bedbugs.
The most common victims of bedbugs are children and women. The bug prefers to bite people with a thin, delicate skin, it is easier for him to bite. If a mosquito sucks blood in one place, then the bug creeps along the body, bites the skin and looks for a place where it is more convenient to suck blood. Bites bugs can not be heard, since his saliva has an anesthetic.
Traces of excrement of bedbugs can be seen on bed linens, on wallpaper( dark spots), and the poured parasites themselves are easily detected at the top of the wall near the ceiling, in folds of upholstered furniture, in the seams of pillows, blankets and elsewhere. If you turn on the light at night, you can see bedbugs on the bedding.
How are bed bugs spread?
As we said above, bugs can migrate under adverse conditions, they creep from one apartment to another, if they start to poison, climb through cracks, electrical outlets. Bedbugs can be brought home from a train with luggage, from a hostel, from a market or a store. You can bring bedbugs out of a business trip, from vacation, and also bring on your clothes, after a trip on the bus, an electric train. Buying in the market, in the store clothes, bedding can bring eggs bugs and insects themselves. Acquiring new furniture can also be purchased and unwanted tenants.
What harm bugs inflict.
Are bedbugs spreaders of dangerous diseases not detected, although their bites can cause allergic reactions, rash. Combing bites, you can bring dirt to the wound and cause inflammation.
Yes, and the very neighborhood with pests has a depressing effect on a person, from such uninvited guests spoils the mood. A person loses peace and his sleep becomes restless, intermittent. Yes, and all thoughts are busy with bedbugs: "Why did they settle, how to get rid of them, are their bites dangerous?" Even the very idea that at night you and your children are crawling with vile creatures and sucking blood can take you out of balance.
To use bugs you need to use chemical preparations, which is not entirely useful. Yes, and aesthetically the spots from the life of bedbugs on wallpaper, blood spots on bed linens, if the bedbug was crushed in a dream - look unattractive.
Destruction of bedbugs.
How to deal with bedbugs if they have settled in your home? If you found bugs in your house too late and you like them, they divorced in incredible quantities, then it's time to declare war on them. Independently to destroy a huge army of bedbugs is very problematic, as they lay eggs in inaccessible places, and the war with parasites will be lost. In such cases, it is better to use the services of sanitary and epidemiological stations or special firms, services for the destruction of insects, which exist in all cities. Professional staff of these services will process the premises with modern drugs for the destruction of bedbugs. To get rid of bothersome parasites, one treatment is enough.
If you immediately discovered that you had bugs and did not allow them to increase in quantity, you can process the habitats yourself with special preparations. They can be bought in shops where seeds are sold - "Karbofos", "Actellik" and others( they are used by summer residents in the fight against insect pests).You can ask advice from sellers, what drugs are effective in fighting bugs. Also on sale are a variety of aerosol products - "Dichlophos", "Raptor", "Reid", and still have funds in the form of crayons, powders.
Take precautions before poisoning bedbugs - these preparations are toxic. Be sure to read the instructions for use carefully. Wear individual protective equipment - a respirator, gauze mask, rubber gloves.
Remove children, pets, remove food, children's toys, clothes, so that they do not get toxic substances. If on toys or clothes there are eggs of bedbugs( small black dots) - then treat them with drugs.
If using liquid agents, spray them out of the spray gun. Carefully process the expected locations of the bed bug, and even better find their nest( nest bed bugs can be arranged anywhere, not necessarily in bed or sofa, even in the backpack that lies in the closet, near the bed).
Spray all seams, creases, lower parts, back surfaces of furniture, skirting boards, carpets, paintings, cracks in the floor and walls, under the wallpaper. For a few hours, close the windows and doors tightly.
If you find bugs in the closet, treat not only the cabinet, but all the clothes, then wash clothes in high temperature water and iron with a hot iron.
In winter clothes, pillows, blankets, toys, books, if bedbugs have settled in them, you can take out on the balcony( if the frost is more than 15 degrees, then the bugs will die).
With the help of a household steam cleaner, you can treat the habitats of bugs with hot steam.
Some drugs do not immediately act on parasites, so do not immediately clean after cleaning. If possible, spend at least one day outside the house, live at the cottage, with relatives.
After the treatment, make a general cleaning in the apartment, wash it well. Vacuum up soft furniture, blankets, pillows, carpets, outer clothing. Do not leave dust in the vacuum cleaner, throw out the dust bag( use disposable paper bags for this purpose).Blankets, pillows, soft toys, outerwear can be put in dry clean.
Of folk remedies, you can arrange herb wormwood, tansy flowers in the habitat of bedbugs and they will leave, but it's better to infect them, because they can go back.
If the bugs bite you, but having examined your bed, you did not find any traces of bugs, so they live not in bed, but somewhere near. Perhaps they arranged a cozy nest in the radio equipment column, or under a picture hanging on the wall, or in a grandmother's basket with yarn, or on a bookshelf in old books, or in a parrot cage.
To find a nest, knowledgeable people advise sprinkling flour around the bed for the night, and in the morning traces of bedbugs will be visible on the flour. So you will find out which side is their nest.
Bedbugs live next door to us for more than one hundred years. And our ancestors they mercilessly gnawed. How did our ancestors fight bugs? They carried mattresses, blankets, and sometimes furniture in the cold, heated in the summer in the sun, poured bugs with boiling water, laid out bunches of fresh wormwood, and washed the floors with decoction, infusion of wormwood. They poisoned them with kerosene, turpentine, and then with dust. They used all sorts of conspiracies, rituals to expel bedbugs.
I do not know if these plots are effective, I did not use them. I was helped to cope with the bugs "Carbophos", which I bought in a flower shop. When in our house bugs began to be found among neighbors, I also prepared for their appearance and carefully examined the skin of children and my for bites. And when an insect discovered the insect over his bed, he immediately processed the entire room with Dichlorvos. But after a while at night again I saw a bug on the blanket. Having examined carefully the whole room, after touching every thing, I found a nest in the side of the sofa, on which the second son slept. I had to remove the lining on the side walls of the sofa and work with "Carbophos".Since, the fight against uninvited guests was started on time, I coped on my own, I had one treatment with "Carbophos".But if the bedbugs handle a lot of the apartment. And it is unlikely that you will be able to manage on your own, it's better to use the services of special services.
Successful fight against uninvited guests!
Increasingly, people living in large cities and small towns meet with such a problem as bed bugs. Finding these creatures in their comfortable apartment, they become perplexed: "How did these bugs come about, because I keep my apartment clean, I'm almost sterile, like in a hospital. Why did they start with me? What to do? ยป
It is not necessary to be surprised, after all occurrence of bed bugs in city apartments is not such a rare phenomenon. And not always, bedbugs settle in a well-neglected, neglected housing, but in apartments where cleaners live, they are quite comfortable. Not immediately people find out that uninvited guests have settled in the apartment.
Bites of mites often are bitten off by mosquito bites, and only when the number of parasites increases sharply, then bugs can be seen with the naked eye and realize that bloody tracks on bed linens and bites on the skin are the hand of these very bedbugs.
Who are these bed bugs, how they appear in our comfortable apartments, and how to deal with them we will try to understand this article.
Who are bed bugs?
Bed bugs are household parasitic insects that feed on human blood and pets. They are nocturnal. In the afternoon they hide in blankets, pillows, mattresses, in upholstered furniture, climb into the home appliances, in the cracks of the walls, under the wallpaper. Find yourself shelter in dark and warm places. They like to live in pillows and mattresses, in cages of pets.
And at night they crawl on the hunt( feeds the bug every 5-10 days with human blood, and drinks it twice as much as it weighs itself), especially active bugs from three o'clock in the morning until eight in the morning.
Bugs have a small size - from 3 to 8 mm. Most of the bugs are dark brown, but there are bugs that have a dirty yellow color. After sucking blood, the bug takes on a scarlet and even black color, becomes round, less mobile. Bed bugs live one year.
For a year of its life the female lays up to 500 eggs. The complete cycle of development of the bug is 40 days from the laying of eggs.
If they do not have enough food or at low temperatures they fall into anabiosis( anabiosis is a condition of a living organism, when life conditions deteriorate under adverse conditions, when unfavorable conditions are eliminated, or revitalize), or move to premises favorable for their life and development. Bedbugs do not tolerate too low and high temperatures( -15 and +50), at these temperatures they die.
If a bedbug is crushed, it emits a specific smell( in bedbugs there are glands, and the substance( secret) secreted from the glands has an unpleasant smell - "bug scent").
Signs of the appearance of bedbugs.
If you have a bed bug, then sooner or later you will find yourself or your children on the body stains from their bites, located on the same level. And as a small swelling, redness on the skin, which is very itchy.