Aerosol and spray from bedbugs do not fundamentally differ much from each other: both agents are a liquid solution of an insecticidal substance that, when sprayed indoors, enters the airways of bedbugs or on surfaces with which insects will come into contact.
Sprays and aerosols from bedbugs differ from each other in the form of release and the degree of readiness for use:
- Sprays - in a ready-to-use form are usually not sold, but are concentrates packaged in small bottles of 50-100 ml (for domestic use) and canisters (for industrial use). To treat the premises, such a concentrate must be diluted with water and sprayed using special devices. In everyday life, simple spray guns from household chemicals are used for this, and in professional services, cold fog generators and aerosol installations are used.
- Bedbug aerosols are insecticide solutions already diluted to the desired concentration, poured under high pressure into spray bottles with a valve. These funds work on the principle of "buy and work" and do not require any prior preparation.
Many bedbug sprays are professional pest control products. They are used in SES, in insect control services, in agriculture.They are generally more effective and economical than aerosols because they use the most effective insecticides without regard for safety and ease of use.
Bed bug aerosols are almost always home use products that are made with ease of use in mind and maximum safety for non-professional use. These funds are optimally suited for removing bedbugs in houses and apartments by the residents themselves.
However, today there are many sprays designed for use by the owners of the premises, as well as aerosols for professionals. From all this variety for each specific situation, you need to be able to choose the most appropriate remedy, which let's talk about in more detail.
Review
“We had bedbugs only once in a rented apartment. It's better, of course, not to meet with such a person again. When I saw them once, I could not sleep for several nights. We probably made all the mistakes that could have been made. They began to poison Mashenka and some kind of powder, they thought they would get off with little blood. All these pencils and powders do not work against bedbugs, at best they give a break for a couple of days. The only thing that can reliably remove them is a good aerosol. We managed to get all the bugs out of the crawling insects with the Raptor, but at the same time, it took us 3 cylinders for the living room, 2 for the nursery. The strangest thing is that the bugs climbed out of generally unpredictable places during processing. For example, they were in the son’s computer and on the bookshelf, so you really need to process everything in the apartment.”
Tatiana, Voronezh
Products for professional and domestic use: features and specifications
Both among sprays and among aerosols, there are preparations that are aimed at users with different levels of training.
For those who have never poisoned bedbugs on their own, from sprays you can pay attention, for example, to concentrates Get, Executioner, Good Micro, Delta Zone and some others, and from aerosols - to Raptor, Combat, Dichlorvos-Neo, Clean House … All these products are intended for home use and are quite safe when used according to the instructions.
Review
“We had to poison the bedbugs with Geta, because there were too many of them and there was a risk that the usual Kombat could not cope. We bought a bottle in the online store, since it reached us in two days. One such bottle is enough for the whole apartment, if it is properly diluted. We didn't have a sprayer, so we had to buy a new one from the garden store. I wonder how the bugs feel this substance. I just started working on the baseboard on one side, and they were already starting to climb out on the other, and there were so many of them that I was already surprised that we didn’t suffer so much from them. We deliberately decided to go to the dacha for two days so that the apartment would stand for this time and the effect would be more pronounced. But when we returned, there was a real trash in the rooms. Dead bugs lay everywhere, even in the kitchen and bathroom. Twice I had to shake the bag out of the vacuum cleaner until they were all removed, and then they washed the apartment for another couple of hours and washed all the clothes. In general, Get from bedbugs works great, but such a fight takes time and effort.
Arkady, Kaluga
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Professional tools, on the other hand, require increased safety measures in work, but are extremely effective. Such funds include, for example, Tetrix, Sinuzan, Klopoveron. It is quite risky to use them without preparation, but in most cases they guarantee the removal of bedbugs at a time.
Bedbug sprays: range of products, rules of use and effectiveness
Bedbug sprays use a wide range of modern highly effective insecticides. The most popular among them are malathion, permethrin and its derivatives (cypermethrin, deltamethrin, tetramethrin), chlorpyrifos, fenthion, piperonyl butoxide, etc. All these substances affect the nervous system of bedbugs and lead to rapid paralysis and death of the parasite.
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Some of the sprays are not commercially available, and only special pest control services use them. Such, for example, is Klopoveron - it is available in the form of a powder, which must be diluted in water for use.
Of the same drugs that can be bought in stores or online, users most often buy:
- Executioner is a German spray concentrate sold in small bottles for 70 rubles per bottle. The main active ingredient is the insecticide fenthion. To process a one-room apartment, you will need to buy 15-20 bottles, the contents of each of which are diluted with half a liter of water and sprayed onto surfaces with a household spray bottle, on which bedbugs can move.
- Tetrix is one of the most powerful sprays designed, generally speaking, for professional treatment of premises. One 250 ml bottle is enough to kill bedbugs in two 2-room apartments. The drug has a very strong and unpleasant odor, the apartment should be thoroughly ventilated after its use. In general, it is not recommended to use this drug for non-professionals.
- Cucaracha is an analogue of Tetrix, adapted for domestic use. However, the strong unpleasant odor of the original drug retained.
- Get is a microencapsulated chlorpyrifos-based product that remains highly effective for several weeks after application to surfaces. It has a contact effect and destroys even those bugs that simply run through an already dried preparation. It has no smell and is very easy to use.
- Sinuzan is another drug that is more targeted for use by professional pest control services.It smells disgusting and can be compared with Tetrix in terms of efficiency.
- Karbofos is one of the oldest and most famous preparations for dilution with water. It is sold both in liquid form and as a powder for dissolution. It has a contact action and destroys both adult bugs and their eggs. Karbofos is a very inexpensive and affordable drug. After surface treatment, they retain an unpleasant odor for a long time.
Before use, spray concentrates must be diluted with water in the ratio indicated in the instructions. Then the resulting solution is poured into a spray bottle, for example, from a conventional window cleaner and sprayed in places where bed bugs can live and move.
On a note
Professional exterminators pour the prepared solution into the cold fog machine and simply fill the entire air in the room with the preparation. After that, in any case, the agent will settle on all surfaces and penetrate where the bugs are hiding.
For domestic use of any insecticidal sprays, it is necessary to use a respirator (in extreme cases, a gauze bandage), as well as rubber gloves and a special hair cap. It is possible to process only a room from which all people and animals are removed. Before spraying against bedbugs in the room, it is advisable to move furniture away from the walls and remove carpets from the walls.
After treatment, you need to pause for several hours to let the spray work, and then ventilate the room and carry out wet cleaning in it.
Review
“The first time we encountered bedbugs was when we were resting with our parents. I don’t know how it is, or their bugs don’t bite at all, or they don’t feel, but for them these parasites seem to be absent.And on the very first night they started pestering us. We didn't want to spoil our holiday and decided to call a pest control. The guys worked well, the bugs were taken out, but I learned from them the name of the drug with which they poison the bugs - Tetrix. When the bugs appeared in our new apartment, I decided to poison them myself. Tetrix is hard to buy. It is sold in large bottles specifically for exterminators. Once I found two small bottles, but those were expensive. But the worst thing is the smell. It is truly disgusting, even after dilution in water. All the time while the apartment is being processed and then stands until cleaning, things are saturated with this stench. But the important thing is that it really works. The bugs die from it immediately, some do not even have time to get out of the sofa. For the time of cleaning, I sent my wife and children to walk in the city, but I got poisoned myself and my head hurt for a long time. It took a day for all the work, while I prepared the furniture, processed it, waited a couple of hours, washed the apartment. In general, both in terms of money and time, it is better to call exterminators.
Oleg, St. Petersburg
Aerosols and their effectiveness
In aerosol cans, the insecticide solution is mixed with liquefied gas, which ensures a constant pressure inside the can, regardless of the amount of product used. Deodorant cans work on the same principle - the tube from the valve in them always reaches the bottom of the can, which ensures that only the insecticide solution is captured when the valve itself is pressed.
Due to the fact that aerosols are developed for domestic use, various flavors are usually added to them, and insecticides that are safest for humans are used.As a result, aerosols from bedbugs are usually inferior in effectiveness to sprays, and in the case of a severe infestation of the room with bedbugs, treatment against parasites must be carried out repeatedly.
Typically, the following aerosols are used from bedbugs:
- Dichlorvos-Neo and Dichlorvos-Eco. These products have nothing to do with the traditional Soviet Dichlorvos, and contain permethrin and piperonyl butoxide as active ingredients. The preparations do not have a strong odor and, with the most careful processing, reliably destroy bedbugs.
- Raptor from crawling insects, which has a pleasant mint smell. Bed bugs usually require at least two Raptor treatments with an interval of two weeks - this aerosol does not destroy eggs, which is why small bug larvae appear in the apartment a few days after the first treatment.
- There is also an aerosol Raptor for the professional destruction of bedbugs, oriented, despite its name, for domestic use. Its efficiency is also not very high.
- Combat from bedbugs is a more or less effective remedy, produced in two versions - with the smell of mint and with the scent of lemon.
The treatment of the premises with aerosols is carried out in the same way as when using sprays. When working with these tools, it is also better to remove people and animals from the apartment.
Since bedbug aerosols were originally created with an emphasis on minimal toxicity to humans, they are recommended for use in the treatment of residential premises, schools, hospitals and kindergartens.
You should always remember that one can of aerosol in the fight against bedbugs is usually very small.As a rule, for effective treatment of a one-room apartment, at least 5-6 cylinders will be required, and most likely, such treatment will have to be repeated more than once.
Spray or aerosol: what and how to choose?
When choosing a tool, you should always remember about the safety of using each and pay attention to various nuances. The same Tetrix, for example, cannot poison bedbugs without special personal protective equipment, and Sinuzan will leave behind such a smell that a hotel room cannot be used for receiving tourists for several days after its use.
As a rule, if you need to process change houses, summer cottages, chicken coops, seasonal housing or temporary huts, sprays are used in such a way that by the time the premises are used, the smell has already disappeared. However, it is always possible to use preparations with a minimum level of odor, for example, the same Get or Dobrokhim Micro.
Do not be mistaken when directly comparing the prices of sprays and aerosols. So, a 50-ml bottle of Delta-Zone spray concentrate costs about 600 rubles, and a 300-ml bottle of Dichlorvos-Neo is about 60 rubles. Such a difference can immediately scare away the economical parasite fighter from the spray. But in reality, with proper dilution, a bottle of Delta-Zone will destroy bedbugs in 1-2 two-room apartments, and a bottle of Dichlorvos - at best, on one infected sofa.
In any case, when choosing a remedy for bedbugs, preference should be given to household sprays - Get, Delta-Zone, Xulat, then - aerosols such as Dichlorvos-Neo or Raptor, and only then - professional products.
Microencapsulated preparations and their features
Microencapsulated preparations differ from other sprays in the special form of introducing the insecticide into the solution: the active substance here forms microcapsules, which, after spraying, settle on the surfaces and, even after drying, retain the ability to stick to the paws and bodies of the bugs. Since the insecticides used in these products have a contact effect, they penetrate through the integument of the bug's body into its body and begin to act on the nervous system of the parasite.
Of the microencapsulated products, the most famous are Get (Get), Xulat, Delta-Zone, Lambda-Zone and some others. All of them are on average more expensive than simple insecticidal sprays.
Safety: what is important to remember when buying and using sprays and aerosols
When buying a spray or aerosol from bedbugs, you should always carefully read the instructions on the package of the drug. It usually indicates all the precautions that must be observed when using a particular tool.
There are several universal safety rules for the use of insecticidal sprays and aerosols:
- Do not allow the product to come into contact with the skin, mucous membranes and respiratory tract. Even with relatively safe aerosols, this rule must be followed.
- All animals and people must be removed from the treated area. Cats are especially sensitive to insecticides - the same permethrin is extremely toxic for them.
- All processed textiles must be thoroughly washed, in the room itself it is necessary to carry out wet cleaning after baiting bugs.
- If any symptoms of poisoning appear when using sprays and aerosols from bedbugs, you should immediately see a doctor.
In addition, if there is an aquarium in the treated room, cover it with a cover slip and turn off the compressor in it for the duration of the treatment - fish are very sensitive to insect poisons.
Frequently asked Questions
Can clothes in closets be sprayed and aerosolized?
Yes, it is possible and even necessary - bugs often settle among stacks of old things. It is important only after processing to wash all the clothes, and wash the closet thoroughly.
I saw some Chinese yellow canister for bedbugs for sale, they praised it very much, but everything is in Chinese on it and there are no reviews of such a tool anywhere. Can it be used for bed bugs?
You can, but only at your own peril and risk. It is not known what insecticides are contained in the can and how toxic the product is to humans. As practice shows, in some cases, Chinese remedies use very powerful, sometimes banned substances in our country. The use of such a drug, although it can give a good effect on bedbugs, can be hazardous to health. Read the description carefully to see if it contains DDT (DDT) - if this abbreviation is available, the drug is definitely not worth buying.
Is it possible to replace aerosols and bedbug sprays with powders? They really help with cockroaches...
No, bedbug powders in most cases will not save - these funds are designed for the fact that insects (the same cockroaches or ants) eat them or run over them. Bedbugs cannot eat anything but blood, and usually hide right near the feeding place - under mattresses and in beds, where it is difficult to scatter powders. Therefore, such remedies for bedbugs will be useless.
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