The destruction of bed bugs is a well-established process and at the moment it is quite accessible even to a person who has never faced the need to deal with any domestic insects before.
The specificity of bedbugs is that they are absolutely indifferent to the sanitary conditions in the house. That is why even perfectly cleaned apartments and expensive apartments can become for them the same comfortable home as a student canteen is for cockroaches.
But wherever bed bugs settle, the destruction of these parasites with the right approach is literally a matter of one day and 1500-2000 rubles. At the same time, modern insecticides provide high safety in the fight against bed bugs and its effectiveness even in cases where such activities are carried out by the user for the first time.
Methods for self-destruction of bedbugs
The fight against bedbugs in the most general case can proceed in two formats: direct extermination of them, or simple scaring away.
If we talk specifically about the destruction of bed bugs with our own hands, then the following methods are the most common today:
- use of household commonly available insecticides that are highly effective against bedbugs
- bed bug control using low or high temperatures
- mechanical methods for the destruction of bedbugs.
Of these three options, in 90% of cases it is the first that is used with the achievement of the desired results. The reason for this is its versatility and efficiency.
If the use of temperature methods in domestic conditions is available only to residents of certain regions (with a cold climate), and not all year round, then any apartment can be treated with an effective drug at any time of the year.
Mechanical methods of control consist in the direct extermination of insects with hands or a vacuum cleaner. They give a more or less reliable result only with a major overhaul of the premises, when it is guaranteed to destroy all insects in a certain area.
That is why, first of all, you should get acquainted with the destruction of bed bugs with your own hands using powerful insecticides.
We destroy bedbugs with insecticides
You should not immediately be afraid of insecticidal preparations as "poisonous chemicals". The beauty of modern means for combating domestic insects is that, with a pronounced effect on bedbugs, they are quite harmless to humans. However, it is still worth observing certain safety measures when using them.
Most household insecticides come in the form of a spray or liquid that must be sprayed indoors using a conventional household spray bottle. Such means include:
- The executioner, which is considered today the best drug for the independent destruction of bedbugs. It is available as a liquid concentrate and requires dissolution in a larger volume of water.
- Insecticide, even more effective than the Executioner, but also more toxic. In some cases, its use is undesirable.
- Combat, produced in cylinders like air fresheners.
- Tetrix, the most expensive, fetid and hard-to-find, but also incredibly powerful remedy for bedbugs.
- Karbofos, somewhat outdated morally, but continuing to actively destroy bedbugs, especially in rural areas. Sometimes it is sold in the form of a powder, which must be dissolved in water to obtain a working suspension ...
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…and some others. The main advantage of these tools is the ability to destroy bedbugs with their help with your own hands.
They just need to be taken and sprayed on the maximum number of surfaces in the room, wait a few hours, ventilate the room and carry out wet cleaning.
With careful treatment of places where bedbugs can hide - beds, cabinets, mattresses, carpets, bookshelves - one treatment is enough to completely destroy adult bedbugs, larvae and eggs.
Important!
The handler should use a cotton-gauze bandage, gloves and maximally closed clothing when handling all sprayed preparations. Such measures will help to avoid allergies or effects on the skin of the active ingredients of insecticides.
Preparations produced in the form of powders or pencils are also quite effective. For example, they include the famous Feverfew or the traditional Mashenka pencil.
The first should be scattered in places of accumulation and movement of bedbugs, the second should be smeared on all surfaces on which bedbugs can move. Such measures, although they will delay the destruction of bedbugs for several days, or even weeks, will make it possible to do without the evacuation of the inhabitants of the premises.
Review
“... I missed the moment a little, I hoped that“ it would resolve itself. A month later, these creatures began to gnaw so much that they had to move to their parents. The apartment was literally flooded with Karbofos, the sofa and the bed were sprinkled with the Executioner, it is very expensive to process the entire apartment. He closed the windows and left. A week later, I swept out several kilograms of these bugs, shook out the bed, wiped the whole apartment with a rag, and they did not appear again.
Yaroslav Andreev, Bryansk
Do-it-yourself temperature treatment
Do-it-yourself temperature methods for the destruction of bedbugs are based on the sensitivity of parasites to sudden changes in temperature and their ability to survive only in narrow temperature intervals. For the destruction of insects, the following measures are sufficient:
- In the northern regions in winter, when the air temperature outside is below minus 22 ° C, leave the windows open for several days. Such a decrease in temperature will kill the bed bugs, but may also damage the heating system.
- If the check showed that the bugs inhabit only one sofa or mattresses on the bed (which is quite rare), take them outside for a few days, and then vacuum them thoroughly.
- In the southern regions, on the contrary, bed linen, mattresses or pillows should be closed in a car left in the sun on a hot day. If the temperature in it rises above + 50 ° C, all the bugs in the linen will die.
- Wash contaminated pillows and bedding in a washing machine at temperatures above +50°C.
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With the exception of the first method, such methods do not make it possible to process the entire apartment. Therefore, they are rarely used.
Sometimes people practice treating mattresses and beds with boiling water, but such measures give only a temporary result: those bugs that hide in the apartment in the crevices of furniture and behind baseboards will remain unharmed.
If bed bugs have started up in the apartment, destroying them manually with the help of mechanical means of control (for example, slippers, a vacuum cleaner) is in most cases doomed to failure. It is almost impossible to vacuum the space behind the baseboards, clothes that can contain eggs and larvae, sockets and various small gaps in the room.
And even more so, there is no chance to pass all the bugs simply with your hands, especially considering the small size of the larvae of the earliest ages and the difficulty of detecting them. It is also unlikely to find all the eggs of parasites.
Traditional means of dealing with bedbugs like turpentine, wormwood and vinegar do not kill insects, but only repel them. Therefore, their use gives only a temporary effect. In addition, their use is associated with serious inconveniences arising from the spread of a sharp and unpleasant odor in the room.
Therefore, if bedbugs in an apartment or house have already started up and you decide to destroy them yourself, then it is best to use reliable modern insecticides.
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