The use of insecticidal smoke bombs for the destruction of bedbugs in the room

Next you will learn:

• Are insecticidal smoke bombs really effective against bed bugs;
• How to choose the right smoke bomb for self-control of bedbugs (taking into account the fact that some products may be completely useless in the fight against these parasites);
• What is the mechanism of action of smoke bombs on bedbugs, and what important rules must be observed during processing;
• And also how much insecticidal smoke bombs cost and where you can buy them without the risk of running into a fake.

Insecticidal smoke bombs against bedbugs are used quite rarely, since few people know that in terms of their effectiveness they are not only not inferior to traditional sprays and aerosols, but also significantly surpass them. At best, someone is aware that special smoke bombs can be used against mosquitoes and flies in the country, but they do not suspect that bedbugs can be removed from the apartment with their help in just a day.

Due to what the smoke bomb is so effective and at the same time easy to use:

1. The smoke from the checker spreads in the room on its own.Here, the bug fighter does not need to spray an insecticidal spray or aerosol into every crack - the smoke with air itself penetrates even into such hard-to-reach places that a person cannot physically reach. Remember how quickly and everywhere smoke spreads, for example, from a cigarette, soaking literally everything in the room - from furniture and walls to clothes. Similarly, insecticidal smoke from a special checker will fill all the rooms of the apartment, penetrate under the baseboards, into the cracks of the parquet, under the linoleum, into the sockets, into the furniture, including through its upholstery.;
2. The smoke bomb generates, in fact, the finest insecticidal aerosol, which has a high penetrating power even through tissues. Therefore, the insecticide in the form of smoke will get bedbugs almost anywhere they hide inside a sofa or bed, and the rate of parasite infestation can be further increased by removing the mattresses from the beds.

It is also important that in order to use a smoke bomb from bedbugs, there is no need to first search for places of their shelter. In any case, smoke will penetrate into the nests of parasites, even those that would be very difficult to detect during a visual inspection of the apartment.

However, if you have already decided to buy a smoke bomb from insects, then you should keep in mind that not all of them will be equally effective against bedbugs. For reliable pest control, it is important to take into account the type of active substance in the checker and buy exactly the option whose effect on bedbugs will be maximum.

About which smoke bombs from bedbugs will be effective and which are useless, let's talk in more detail ...

Review

“In general, I have never heard of smoke bombs from bedbugs before. At my mother-in-law I poisoned cockroaches with a battalion commander, I used dichlorvos at my place.And then bedbugs appeared, and no aerosols from them help. To be honest, I got tired of poisoning seven (!) Times in two months, and at least something. I even bought a special poison in a bottle, took a garden sprayer from my mother-in-law and processed the whole bed, but it helped for a couple of days. Then, just for the sake of interest, I bought a smoke bomb from Samuro mosquitoes. I did everything according to the instructions and still doubted that everything was so simple, set it on fire, closed it in the apartment, came, ventilated it, my wife did the cleaning. And that's it, no bedbugs! A couple of handfuls of them were collected dead and for a month I have not seen a single bite, not a single parasite anywhere. This, of course, was a surprise. Moreover, given the price, it costs something around 300 rubles, cheaper than a vial of that odorous poison ... "

Pavel, Moscow

 

What smoke bombs effectively destroy bedbugs

Insect control smoke bombs commercially available today may contain the following active ingredients:

1. Pyrethroids are modern, highly effective insecticides, also used in some household sprays;
2. Hexachloran is a fairly powerful but outdated insecticide used mainly in agriculture;
3. As well as sulfur, which forms sulfur dioxide (aka sulfur dioxide) during the combustion of a smoke bomb - such bombs are more often used to treat basements, greenhouses and cellars from mold.

Of these funds, in the case of the destruction of bedbugs in a residential area, only checkers based on pyrethroids are suitable.

Means with hexachloran are very toxic and have long been banned for use in civilized countries (hexachloran has a cumulative property and can cause deformities of the embryo).

Sulfur checkers against insects are not recommended, since sulfur dioxide is significantly inferior to pyrethroids in terms of insecticidal activity. But as a fungicide, sulfur dioxide works well - so it makes sense to use sulfur checkers in cases where it is necessary to suppress mold growth in a humid room.

On the basis of pyrethroids in Russia, three checkers are most common on sale - City (permethrin concentration 13%), Quiet Evening (permethrin concentration 10%) and Samuro (5% permethrin). Checker Quiet Evening is popular with summer residents and fishermen, who use it to repel and kill mosquitoes, and Samuro is specifically designed to kill bedbugs, cockroaches and other insects in the premises. Further, we will talk primarily about the checkers from insects Quiet Evening and Samuro, implying that other checkers with pyrethroids are quite similar to them.

It is interesting

Pyrethroids, which include the insecticide permethrin, got their name because of the similarity in chemical structure and action with natural pyrethrins. In turn, pyrethrins (that is, natural pyrethroids) are found in the flowers of some types of chamomile, called in lat. pyrethrum.

Therefore, Feverfew powder, made from dried chamomile flowers, is effective against a wide variety of insects, including bedbugs.

A good alternative to permethrin smoke bombs is the Raptor aquafumigator, which works on the basis of cyfenotrin. However, in the case of using such an aqua-fumigator, the active substance is distributed with water vapor, and the penetrating power of the resulting aerosol will be somewhat lower than that of smoke. Therefore, keep in mind that the Raptor is not a smoke bomb, and it is not as effective against bedbugs as the same Samuro.



Judging by the reviews, popular Japanese and Chinese checkers from cockroaches do not always live up to expectations. In addition, since they are purchased and imported into our country without control, you can never guess which active ingredient will be contained in a particular purchased checker. It is possible that some of them contain substances dangerous to humans. In addition, Japanese insect smoke bombs can be difficult to buy even in Moscow.

 

The mechanism of action of insecticidal smoke bombs on bedbugs

A smoke bomb against bedbugs works on a principle similar to that of aerosols and sprays:

1. The insecticide with smoke penetrates into the hiding places of parasites, settles on the chitinous covers of their bodies and penetrates into the spiracles;
2. When it enters the integument of the body, the substance penetrates through the cuticle into soft tissues (pyrethroids in general and permethrin in particular have a contact effect), is absorbed into the hemolymph and reaches the nerve ganglia. In addition, when penetrating with smoke through the spiracles, the insecticide penetrates into the hemolymph immediately through the system of respiratory tubules;
3. Once in the nervous system, permethrin causes incessant excitation of nerve cells, which manifests itself in the paralysis of the insect and its rather rapid death.

When the smallest particles of permethrin from smoke settle on various surfaces of the interior, the insecticide remains here for some time. In the future, if the bugs run over such a surface, then they inevitably cling to the paws and abdomen of the particles of the substance, which then penetrates into their bodies, in the same way as it does with simple settling on the covers. This provides a prolonged effect after a single treatment - the product remains for a long time in small cracks (for example, behind baseboards), where the hostess's hand with a rag does not reach, and continues to protect the room from single surviving bedbugs, as well as from young larvae hatching from eggs.

On a note

Permethrin also has a well-defined repellent effect on insects. For example, smoke bombs used in open spaces destroy only a small part of mosquitoes (which stay in a zone of high concentration of smoke for a long time), but they can literally scare away entire hordes of these insects - flying bloodsuckers quickly retreat from places where insecticidal smoke spreads.

So keep in mind that when treating an apartment with a permethrin smoke bomb, partial migration of bedbugs from your apartment to your neighbors is possible if you do not create obstacles to this in advance, blocking such paths of possible “retreat”.

The penetrating power of insecticidal smoke from a checker is generally comparable to that of a fine aerosol produced by a cold fog generator - such installations are used by professional pest control services. The particle size in the aerosol cloud is only a few tens of microns (in the case of using the Raptor aquafumigator, as noted above, the penetrating power of the aerosol is somewhat lower).

It is also worth considering that the price of treating a one-room apartment with cold fog from bedbugs is today 3000-4000 rubles. Self-treatment of an apartment with the same efficiency with the help of a smoke bomb will cost almost 10 times cheaper.

 

Important rules for using checkers

Before using a smoke bomb, all people and pets must be removed from the room, if there is an aquarium, cover it with a cover glass and turn off the compressor.

Bed linen from beds and sofas is recommended to be removed and hung in a room or on a balcony (if it is glazed), leaving free access to it for smoke. The idea here is to spray the furniture and bed linens with insecticidal smoke.

Mattresses are removed from the bed - they should be placed vertically, slightly tilted and leaning against the wall. In this case, they will be treated with smoke from all sides.

Food, utensils, electronics, clothes, shoes and children's toys should be packed in plastic bags. Such hermetically sealed bags can be left in the room itself.

Furniture is moved away from the walls to make it easier for smoke to reach its rear surfaces. The windows are tightly closed so that the smoke is not drawn out into the street. If there are fire detectors in the room, then they must be turned off or covered with tape. Ventilation grilles are also sealed with adhesive tape.

A smoke bomb from bedbugs is installed in the middle of the bedroom in a metal basin or pan on the floor. This will help to avoid spillage of smoldering products and accidental ignition. Then the wick is lit, and as soon as thick smoke begins to stand out, the handler leaves the room, closing the door to it.

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The saber smolders for about 5-10 minutes. For another two hours, the smoke spreads evenly throughout the room and settles on surfaces. For example, one Samuro smoke bomb is effective for removing bedbugs in rooms with a total area of ​​​​up to 30 square meters. m. (if the apartment has a much smaller area - it's okay, the more efficient the processing will be, and without any harm to the walls and furniture).

Two hours after the ignition of the checker, you can return to the apartment, open the windows wide open and thoroughly ventilate the room for at least an hour. Then, all surfaces with which people and pets can come into contact should be wiped with a damp cloth (using a weak solution of soap or washing powder).

The furniture is put in place and the smoke-treated bed linen is washed.

It should be borne in mind that even after the use of a smoke bomb, eggs laid by female bedbugs remain in shelters.The vast majority of insecticides generally have minimal or no effect on bedbug eggs (no matter how disinfestation service managers try to convince you otherwise).

Thus, after about 1-2 weeks, young bedbug larvae will begin to hatch from the eggs. Therefore, do not panic if after a couple of weeks (or even after a few days) bites are found on the body again - this situation is also typical for professional pest control. The main thing here is to re-process in time, preventing the larvae from growing up and laying new eggs.

You should buy one additional checker in advance, and no later than three weeks after the first pest control (but not earlier than 2 weeks) carry out another treatment. It will finally finish off the young shoots of parasites.

Review

“How many years I live, but I encountered bedbugs for the first time. They ran to our apartment from the neighbors, they moved out and now they are renting it out to some visitors. It's just a real horror, for three months the whole family went bitten! And the SES was called, and a private company, they themselves poisoned three times. And all to no avail, the bugs crawled over us. I read a lot on the Internet, and about smoke bombs too. I confess, I did not believe that they would help. Well, nothing, bought, used. This is processing, so processing, this is not dichlorvos for you! Smoke stood like a rocker in the apartment. But by evening, what happiness it was to see the corpses of bedbugs, which were still writhing on the floor. They scooped them out with a shovel from under the sofa ... "

Olga, St. Petersburg

 

Safety when working with insecticidal smoke bombs

Permethrin, as the active ingredient in smoke bombs, is highly toxic to insects and is relatively safe for humans and pets.However, if insecticidal smoke enters the respiratory tract, especially in large quantities, it can cause intoxication, accompanied by dizziness, nausea and coughing. With prolonged contact with the skin in people prone to allergies, the substance may cause appropriate allergic reactions.

A significant disadvantage of using insecticidal smoke bombs in an apartment is the long-term preservation of a specific smell in the room: furniture, clothes and carpets can retain the smell for more than a week. This must be taken into account in advance if you decide on such processing. The residual odor is more characteristic of Quiet Evening and less pronounced for Samuro.

On a note

Cats are especially sensitive to permethrin. For this reason, if such a pet lives in the treated room, then before processing and 3-4 days after it, it is advisable to send the animal to relatives or friends.

For maximum safety, a smoke bomb when destroying bedbugs in an apartment should be used in compliance with the following measures:

• The handler must quickly leave the room after ignition of the checker, without inhaling smoke;
• To enter the room after processing for ventilation should be in clothes with long sleeves and a respirator. If possible, windows should be opened without inhaling air at all, but opening them, again leave the apartment for 5-10 minutes;
• After the treatment, the apartment should be wet cleaned.

 

Where can I buy a smoke bomb to kill bedbugs and how much does it cost

You can buy a smoke bomb from bedbugs in St. Petersburg and Moscow in some specialized stores for fishermen and hunters (most likely, you will be offered a Quiet Evening bomb).However, it is much easier and with less risk of running into a fake to purchase an insecticidal smoke bomb in large online stores that sell insect repellents. Moreover, the main warehouses of most of these stores are located in Moscow, and after the purchase, the checker will be delivered to the customer quickly enough.

The price of Samuro checkers in online stores today is about 300 rubles (and even less than 280 rubles, if you take a lot). For comparison: processing a one-room apartment from bedbugs using a cold fog generator costs about 3,000-4,000 rubles with approximately the same efficiency.

Some online stores send purchases by mail and transport companies to any city in Russia (the price of a smoke bomb increases by the delivery price). Remember also that buying smoke bombs in bulk can be more profitable than buying one piece, and therefore if bed bugs are a problem not only for you, but for all your neighbors on the floor, then it may make sense to organize the treatment, saving a decent amount. .

If you have your own experience of using smoke bombs against bedbugs, then do not forget to leave your feedback in the comment box at the bottom of this page.

 

An interesting video: an example of using a smoke bomb Quiet Evening from mosquitoes

 

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