Disinsection in the broadest sense of the word means a set of measures to destroy insects in a certain area, whether it be an apartment or an open field. Disinsection from bedbugs usually involves treating the premises with special insecticidal preparations that are toxic to the insects themselves, but are of little danger to humans. This also includes the use of special methods of thermal destruction of bedbugs.
Disinsection of an apartment from bedbugs has its own characteristics compared to the same process, for example, against cockroaches or ants. First of all, for the reason that bedbugs feed only on human blood. It is absolutely useless to offer them poisoned baits that work well against the same cockroaches - bugs, in principle, are not able to eat anything but blood.
That is why aerosol products and sprays are usually used to kill bedbugs, which, being finely sprayed in the air, can penetrate even hard-to-reach places. Bedbugs after such pest control die in the same place where they hid. When using highly effective preparations that can maintain a long residual effect on the treated surfaces, new larvae will also die if they hatch from the eggs of bedbugs that are usually resistant to insecticides.
Important!
In the room in which bedbugs have started, disinfestation must be carried out without fail: without measures to destroy parasites, they will multiply very quickly and spread to neighboring apartments. As practice shows, in a few months even the most comfortable apartment can turn into a real bed bug.
Modern pest control methods
You can exterminate bedbugs in several ways using different means and methods. These include:
- Destruction of bedbugs with insecticidal preparations.
- Freezing insects.
- Heat treatment of the room.
Of these methods, bed bug disinfestation with insecticides is usually the most labor intensive, but also the most reliable. This method is most common in urban insect control services.
Freezing of bedbugs is usually carried out independently, without the involvement of specialists in those regions where it can be applied (for effective freezing, temperatures below minus 20 ° C are required). Treating a room with heat is also a very effective option, but it requires quite expensive equipment.
On a note
An ordinary owner of an apartment or house, applying to special insect extermination services, usually fails to choose one way or another - exterminators come with their equipment and just do their job. However, each company usually has its own arsenal of tools, and by calling several organizations and clarifying their methods, you can choose the one that suits you best.
Disinsection of an apartment from bedbugs with the help of insecticidal preparations is the most universal method, it is successfully used by both professional workers and the owners of the premises themselves.The means that are used for this can differ significantly from each other, for example, in smell, price, efficiency, safety for humans and animals, and other characteristics.
Means for the destruction of bed bugs
The vast majority of bedbug insecticides are available as ready-to-spray aerosols or concentrated solutions, which, after dilution, should also be sprayed indoors. In very rare cases, pest control of bedbugs is carried out using dusts containing contact insecticides, but such extermination of parasites is usually much less successful.
On a note
When choosing a drug for pest control, you need to get acquainted with its active ingredients. Usually, Malathion (Karbofos), Permethrin, Cypermethrin, Deltamethrin, Chlorpyrifos, Piperonyl Butoxide and their derivatives are used against bedbugs.
Of the effective drugs against bedbugs are widely known and often used, for example, the following:
- Klopoveron - a product of a Soviet development, is considered one of the most effective remedies for bedbugs. Quite expensive and difficult to purchase, used by a very limited number of companies.
The executioner is a tool designed specifically for domestic use. It is produced in the form of a concentrate, which is diluted with ordinary tap water and sprayed from a spray bottle. For a one-room apartment, you will have to buy a drug for 1400-1600 rubles.
- Get is a chlorpyrifos-based insect repellent produced using microencapsulation technology. It can penetrate into the body of an insect through its outer covers, and retains its effectiveness on treated surfaces for quite a long time.
- Tetrix is one of the most widely used drugs for the destruction of insects by special services. It has a strong unpleasant smell, but is very effective and has a long residual effect. For use by non-specialists, an analogue of Tetrix is \u200b\u200bproduced - the Cucaracha tool.
Review
We bought Master250 from bedbugs a long time ago. A powerful piece with all its safety. The parasites really died in one day, but we deliberately didn’t wash under the sofas for another week in order to destroy them for sure.
Oleg, Perm
All these drugs are concentrates that require preliminary dilution.Of the ready-to-use aerosols, Kombat, Raptor from crawling insects, Dichlorvos-Neo or Dichlorvos-Universal are usually used.
Important
Modern "Dichlorvos" have nothing to do with the actual substance with the same name used in the Soviet Dichlorvos. For example, Dichlorvos Neo contains Permethrin, Cypermethrin and Piperonyl Butoxide. Of course, such Dichlorvos do not have a terrible smell, while maintaining the effectiveness of the original.
For the treatment of industrial and domestic premises, it is desirable to use concentrated preparations. Bedrooms, kitchens, hotels can be treated with less aggressive Kombat or Raptor, which contain fragrances and do not spoil the atmosphere of the premises for a long time.
Temperature treatment: how does it work?
Methods of temperature treatment of premises from bedbugs are based on the fact that these parasites die at temperatures below 20°C and above 45°C. Therefore, if there are appropriate opportunities for an apartment from bedbugs, you can:
- Freeze if the temperature outside is below minus 20 ° C, and soak for several hours. At the same time, care should be taken to protect the pipes for water supply and heating (thermally insulate them so that they do not freeze and burst).
- Treat with steam or hot air. For this, special teams usually use powerful industrial hair dryers and fan heaters.
On a note
There is also a folk way to treat bedbug-infested furniture with steam from a kettle, but in practice it is very laborious and usually does not allow you to completely destroy bedbugs in an apartment.
Special teams can use compressed gases such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide to freeze bedbugs.In this case, a jet of gas acts precisely on the nest of bedbugs, pointwise destroying their largest groups. Similarly, steam or hot air treatment is carried out. As a rule, air with a temperature of about 55-60°C is used.
As a rule, due to the complexity of the temperature treatment of the premises from bedbugs, only professionals carry out. Often it is combined with the use of insecticidal preparations. The price of pest control from bedbugs in this case increases, but its effectiveness also increases.
Calling pest control services
In almost every major city or regional center there is a local Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, whose employees quite successfully remove bedbugs. Typically, the cost of SES operation is lower than the price of pest control from bedbugs from small companies.
Specialized companies always offer bed bug extermination as one of several of their services. When contacting such a service, you must:
- agree on hours and hours of work
- get a guarantee that within a certain period of time the bugs will not appear in the house, and if they appear, the specialists will come again
- receive instructions for preparing the premises for processing
- find out what products you need to buy for normal cleaning of the apartment after pest control.
If the manager of the company cannot answer these questions, you should think about the reliability and quality of the work of such a pest control service.
Review
“The daughter in the hostel was called a special team for the disinfestation of bedbugs. Found it based on reviews. So they didn't make any sense at all.Even the cockroaches did not die, so maybe they were gone for a couple of days. Until they themselves brought Dichlorvos and poisoned it, the bugs continued to bite. But at our house, the SES did a good job, after them we had confidence in such teams. In general, now we either call the SES, or poison ourselves ... "
Olga, Yeysk
In any case, before the arrival of the service workers, it is necessary to move the furniture away from the walls, free the corners and edges of the carpets so that after processing they can be quickly rolled up, the carpets from the walls and bed linen can be removed from the beds.
After the work of exterminators in the room, it is necessary to carry out a thorough wet cleaning and ventilate it until the smell of the insecticide disappears.
What about money?
The cost of the work of special pest control teams is usually slightly higher than the cost of the drug required for self-removal of parasites in the room. For example, SES processes a one-room apartment for approximately 1200-1400 rubles. A set of bottles of the Executioner will cost about the same amount to process the same area. Processing a five-room apartment costs, respectively, 2000-2200 rubles.
For specialized companies, the price for pest control from bed bugs is slightly higher, and starts at 1,600 rubles for a one-room apartment. In large cities, the service is more expensive, in small cities it is cheaper, but the spread in prices is usually insignificant.
On a note
Lower prices in SES do not mean lower service. Usually, SES personnel regularly take refresher courses in accordance with the requirements of Rospotrebnadzor, and the clients themselves can choose the drugs with which their premises will be treated.
Do-it-yourself pest control
For self-removal of bedbugs from the apartment, you must:
- buy an insecticidal preparation, preferably one that optimally combines efficiency, price, absence of an unpleasant odor and safety in use (read how to choose a preparation for bedbugs in the section of our website "Remedies for bedbugs").
- In the apartment, move furniture away from the walls, remove carpets, remove clothes and linen from cabinets.
- Remove all people and animals from the premises.
- Spray the product on as many surfaces as possible, under carpets, on furniture, especially on beds and sofas.
- Close windows and doors in the apartment for several hours.
- At the end of the disinfection procedure, ventilate the room and carry out wet cleaning in it.
As a rule, with a slight infection of the room with bedbugs and the use of an effective drug, a single treatment is enough to completely remove the bedbugs. In rare cases (for example, with severe contamination of the premises), after such treatment, surviving eggs remain, from which larvae hatch after 1-2 weeks. If, after the first disinfestation, a few individual insects are found in the room, the procedure should be repeated after two weeks.
In general, according to the experience of those who have already removed bedbugs, it can be concluded that calling special teams is more profitable and reliable than self-treatment of the premises. The latter is justified primarily in settlements where pest control teams do not work, and in rare cases when the handler can buy drugs for very little money. In other situations, calling professionals allows you to save time, health and strength.
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