Many people who are faced with the problem of infestation of an apartment with bedbugs prefer to immediately contact pest control services. Meanwhile, this expensive event may not give the quick and long-term effect that the residents are counting on.
At the same time, there are a lot of ways to get rid of bedbugs on your own, and today everyone can literally take measures in a day, thanks to which home bugs will completely disappear from the room.
Today, the market is flooded with household insecticides, which make it easy and inexpensive to do do-it-yourself pest control. The effectiveness of these funds proves that self-destruction of bedbugs is quite possible.
Use of aerosol insecticides for bed bugs
Aerosol is a very convenient form of release of antiparasitic agents, which allows you to apply the drug to any surface in just a few movements. In addition, the destruction of bedbugs with the help of drugs in this form gives the fastest result.
Aerosol products are best used locally - spray them over bedbug nests or places where they accumulate, because after applying to the surface, the drug does not retain its effectiveness for long.
Aerosols have one significant drawback: after spraying, a significant part of the poison enters the air and can enter the respiratory tract of a person or animal. Therefore, when working with sprays, it is important to strictly follow the instructions:
- before use, remove food, hide personal items
- remove animals and children from the premises, close the aquariums tightly and turn off the air intakes
- put on personal protective equipment: a mask or respirator, goggles, gloves, you can wear a bathrobe
- wide open windows
- shake the bottle thoroughly to mix the ingredients
- spray the places of accumulation of insects and secluded places of the room, holding the can in an outstretched hand. The distance to the object of spraying is approximately 20 cm. Do not use aerosols near switched on electrical appliances and open flames. Try to spray so that you get a continuous line.
- After processing, you need to leave the windows open and leave the room for at least half an hour.
Independent destruction of bedbugs in the apartment can be carried out with the following sprays:
- Bed bug raptor. Contains poison of the pyrethroid group, has a paralytic effect on the nervous system of insects. It is most effective when applied locally to parasites and their nests. You can buy a Raptor at a price of about 150-180 rubles.
- Raid. Recommended for the treatment of upholstered furniture, has an unstable odor that quickly disappears. You can buy the product for 150-180 rubles.
- Microphos.A well-known professional product with a strong smell, but very effective. It can be used on upholstered furniture (if the persistent smell does not scare) or directly on the nests of bedbugs, on the parasites themselves. Getting Microphos is quite problematic, and one canister of it, which can be used to process the entire apartment, will cost 1,500 rubles.
- Combat. This is another effective aerosol that is equipped with special nozzles for hard-to-reach places. It has a paralytic effect on insects, works best when applied directly to bed bugs and their nests. You can buy Kombat for 125-140 rubles.
And one more thing: the bugs hid in all the cracks, and you just can’t find their nest? And smoke bombs find bedbugs where even a needle cannot squeeze through ...
Before you remove bedbugs on your own with the help of sprays, you need to take care of the availability of personal protective equipment: gloves, cotton-gauze bandage or respirator, glasses. They will reduce the likelihood of insecticide getting on the mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory tract and ensure proper safety at work.
Application of insecticidal powders and crayons
When people think about how to poison bedbugs on their own, they often focus on the advice of sellers in a store or market. Many of them offer products in powder or crayon form that are purported to be very effective.
In fact, this form of release of the product does not always give an effect against bedbugs, because these insects will not eat poisonous powder (as, for example, a cockroach could do) - bedbugs feed exclusively on blood. Therefore, only those powder insecticides that contain contact poison, and not just intestinal ones, can really work. The struggle with the use of such powders is quite effective, but stretches over time.
Self-destruction of bedbugs usually involves the use of the following insecticidal powders:
- Chlorophos. Phosphorus organic insecticide, requires the preparation of a solution: 15 g of powder per 10 liters of water. Effective against bed bugs and their eggs. Moderately toxic to humans, but dangerous if inhaled.
- Masha. This chalk has a fairly high efficiency due to the content of poisons of the pyrethroid group. It is well fixed on the surface and acts for a long time after application. In terms of price-quality ratio, this is one of the best options with a small number of bedbugs in the apartment.
- Neopin is a fairly effective powder for killing bed bugs. Before use, it must be diluted in proportions of 10 g per 1 liter of water. It is necessary to irrigate the places where bedbugs accumulate and hard-to-reach places, and after 2 hours you can wash everything off (it does not have a prolonged action). To achieve the effect, constant (literally daily) treatment with Neopin solution is required, otherwise it will not cope with the problem, but will only reduce the number of parasites.
Destruction of bedbugs by heat treatment
Bed bugs, like all living things, have their own temperature limits of existence. Therefore, when destroying bedbugs on your own, you can use the old proven trick: in winter, take the infected sofa outside and leave it there for several hours.
If it is possible to move out for a couple of days, you can “freeze out” the entire apartment, however, this is dangerous for plumbing (heating pipes may burst).
Home bugs do not tolerate temperatures from minus 22 degrees and below, and if the apartment is located in a region where such frosts occur, then such a method as freezing the room should be noted.
You can also get rid of bed bugs on your own with the help of high temperatures: the nests of parasites are doused with boiling water or scalded with steam. The first method quite effectively reduces the number of bedbugs, but only if their habitats are identified. The second way is worse: the steam usually does not have time to reach the right place, condensing on furniture or walls.
Exterminators have special steam generators that send a jet of steam to the right place and destroy bed bugs. But an ordinary kettle is unlikely to work like that.Sometimes professional exterminators use long-term heating of the room to a strand temperature of + 50 ° C with the help of heat guns - this also leads to the death of parasites.
Folk remedies against bedbugs
In the centuries-old struggle with bedbugs, people came up with more and more new recipes for the effective destruction of these parasites. Some of these folk remedies do work, but for the most part they just scare away bedbugs for a while without reducing their numbers. Such folk remedies-repellents include, for example, wormwood, tansy, vinegar, ammonia and some others.
There are also options for mixtures that kill insects upon direct contact with them. Unfortunately, they do not have a prolonged action. It makes no sense to apply them throughout the apartment, you can only process the found nests of bed bugs:
- a mixture of vinegar, naphthalene and 90% alcohol in equal parts;
- pure denatured alcohol;
- aviation kerosene.
It is worth remembering that self-destruction of bedbugs with folk remedies makes sense only with a small number of insects in the house. In addition, the use of toxic chemicals requires strict safety precautions such as the use of gloves, a mask and goggles.
Denatured alcohol, alcohol, and aviation fluid are highly flammable and should not be used near a fire source. In addition, these products are toxic to animals.
So, as you can see, the independent destruction of bedbugs in an apartment is not such an impossible task, if you approach it wisely. It is possible to completely get rid of the population of bed bugs in a fairly short time, but there is always a risk of their re-penetration, for example, from neighbors. Therefore, it is useful to work together with other residents of the house.
If it is not possible to agree with the neighbors, then you need to carry out constant preventive measures and protect your apartment from the new penetration of bedbugs.
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Video: testing the remedy for bedbugs Executioner
Hello people! Need advice that will really help get rid of the nasty bedbugs. They tried to remove it with aerosols, dust in the form of a powder, sprinkled wormwood, watered the bed with 9 percent peroxide and all sorts of other things - the result is one - the bugs are not going to disappear. It seems that these are mutants, specially released by the manufacturers of poisons from these bloodsucking. The main question is, is it necessary to run to get tested for all sorts of bad diseases, since these reptiles are carriers of these? It got to the point that they crawl out during the day, they generally don’t care about daylight and all sorts of poisons, or it’s easier to really burn the apartment, guard .... someone, help!
Call SES.
There was this infection a year ago, I can’t imagine how they appeared. I re-read the entire Internet up and down, I did not call the sanitation station, since the apartment is rented. I got rid of all the aerosols that are on the market, spent a lot of money and nerves, and not one helped. Then I bought KARBOFOS on gardening trays, I also bought a respirator, since the poison is harmful to humans. I diluted the drug with water, 4 ampoules per 2 liters of water, and sprayed everything where my hands got with the help of a conventional mister muscle spray. If there are a lot of bedbugs, then you can mix the drug Executioner with KARBOPHOSU (you can also buy it there). He closed all the windows and doors and went for a walk for 12 hours. He came and ventilated, the smell of course dissipated residually within a week, well, it’s better to let it stink than gnaw. People advised to re-process after 2 weeks, I did not, since I had few of them. And pah pah to this day they are not. The whole procedure together with a resperator cost me $10. Try it, it won't get worse.
And by the way, after treatment, even flies did not fly into my apartment for two months, but I completely forgot about the Prussians, neighboring partisans. Everything that crawls and flies is dead.
Medilis-ziper helped us. Very efficient and inexpensive. For a 3-room apartment, the drug was spent for 300 rubles. Processed 2 times with an interval of a week. Before that, we spent a lot of money on sprays, aquafumigators, crayons, powders. Nothing helped.
But he can’t help me in any way, for the third time I’m already processing my two-room apartment with him. And each time I increased the dose, it reached 5 ml per 1.5 liters of water. Last processed 3 days ago, walked completely in all corners, below, above, vertically, sprayed all doors, switches and sockets.And today this undead in one copy crawled out again (albeit a small one). I don't know what to do now.
Where can I buy this Medilis Ziper?
And tell me, please, where to buy this drug.
And that can definitely help.
Recently there were bed bugs in the apartment. I used a lot of remedies, but nothing helped. I was helped in the fight against this evil exterminators. I was very pleased with the advice and help.
I called exterminators, they ripped off 5 thousand for processing, but the bugs did not go away. When contacting them, they also offered re-treatment for 800 rubles, although before that they gave a guarantee of 24 months. Beware of scammers!
Also called. It didn’t help, they appeared again (Well, we have a 3-year warranty, you can still call, and it will be free. But it’s not a fact that there will be no bedbugs.
Not the fact that they will go to redo it. I'm already tired of trying, and the cops, as they were, are crawling.
I don't know, I called my daughter. True, they processed it for two days in a row, but it helped.
Looks like we used the same company...
Hello. Tatyana, the same story, called exterminators, they only poisoned cockroaches. Gave 2500, gave a guarantee also for a year. There was no result at all. Offered again at half price. I wished them well.
Yesterday I called the master, nothing helped, they gave 3000 rubles. Beware of scammers!
The same story ... Only we gave 5,000 rubles, and now we are thinking about self-processing.
Yesterday I sprayed one Kombat on the sofa. The desired result was not achieved. Live bugs found today.Partially sprayed Raptor. Also no effect.
I can’t do it anymore… Give me something tested, otherwise I’ll burn everything for such and such a mother and buy everything new, along with the cat!
I also deal with these creatures. Everything advertised is bullshit. Only chlorine or dust will help you, as well as hot processing. Yesterday I found a good remedy for them, today I am collecting corpses. This is a remedy for fungus on the walls, I bought the cheapest, closed the windows, doors, processed everything and left it overnight. In the morning there was still a strong smell, but quickly weathered by opening the windows. For reliability, she doused the frame of the sofa with boiling water, suddenly the eggs were alive. I think that in a couple of weeks I will repeat the anti-mold treatment. It contains chlorine, water and a couple more components. I liked today's result. Before that, she poisoned with Getom, Karbofos, various aerosols - the result is zero. She spent so much money in 5 months, guard. The product is very caustic, take care of your lungs.
What tool did you use, please tell me the name.
I rent an apartment, the tenants came with their sofa, as a result, six months later they screwed up, leaving me a wonderful sofa with bedbugs. I had to take out all the furniture, rip off the wallpaper in the entire apartment, leaving only the refrigerator. But today I found a live video - in the afternoon. She treated with raid, dichlorvos, phenaxin, karbofos, fufanon, aktara. I just don't know what to do anymore.
We contacted the spec. office. It's just crap, they ripped off the money, but the effect is zero, the bugs are in their places! They promised a second free call, don't be fooled (half the cost of what you paid).
Hello people. Help, we recently rented an apartment, and there are bed bugs.The masters have already been called twice, to no avail - on the contrary, they multiply. I do not know what to do. But we have small children. I don’t know how to poison, whether it’s already on my own to start a fight with these creatures.
Hello! Tell me, what is the most reliable remedy for bedbugs? Wound up in the sofa, but we threw the sofa away. Maybe they remained in the sofa, and they are no more?
Digital is a great tool!
The same crap. I moved to a hostel, and in 10 days they drank all the blood. What to do? Who to contact?!
Beware of scammers! A neighbor brought them to us. They began to work together like bedbugs. They threatened to sue. They forced me to lay out 30,000. I worked for 10 minutes, a three-room apartment. The bugs are alive and the neighbor blinks shamelessly. It is necessary, he says, more! We will poison ourselves, there is no more money, pensions have flown away, and a neighbor advised us to save on food.
The neighbor-parasite drags things and furniture from the garbage dump, spread the bedbug. I went in somehow to turn gray with my husband, to talk - he rewarded me with his comrades. Now, what night I don’t lie down on the sofa, I’m very afraid. And we have children, I don’t know what to do. How to deal with bedbugs?
Hello, if you call the service, is it possible to determine that these are scammers? And how to check?
I called today from the SES of Moscow, the employee asked in advance to sign the contract and pay 1900 rubles. He processed a 2-room apartment in 10 minutes, and did nothing at all in the kitchen and in the toilet with a bath. The rooms only sprinkled the sofas and lightly in some places the wallpaper. Is it really possible for fraudsters to work in such a reputable company as SES? It's a shame for the SES of Moscow.
Good day.In no case do not poison insects with the help of advertising on the Internet! They deceive and tear up three skins for their work without a show, and on the 2nd day the bugs crawl as if nothing had happened!
Beware of scammers in Engels, there are a lot of them. It is advisable to poison yourself, and not give money to someone.