Home bugs are a problem that is quite difficult to deal with. A complex effect is necessary to destroy not only adult active individuals, but also parasites that are resistant to the effects of poison, namely larvae and insect eggs. With a strong infection, it is very difficult to fight bugs independently. You have to use several methods at once. An overview of the most effective of them is presented below.
Habitats for bugs and their larvae
To control the bugs at home was effective, you need to determine the habitat of the parasites and their larvae. This will allow you to carefully cultivate the territory and destroy the population. Often bedbugs live on bookshelves, in old drawers and boxes, for paintings on the walls, in travel bags and suitcases, shoes, linen cabinets, window shades, flooring. In hard-to-reach places, it is harder to detect the places where insects accumulate. Bedbugs can live in electrical outlets, holes and cracks in walls and floors, radio, audio and television equipment, any equipment, ventilation ducts.
Home Bug Control Techniques
Means of controlling bugs at home can be divided into radical destructive and preventive bugs. If parasites are found in the apartment, it is better to first try to completely get rid of them, and then use a deterrent to prevent further insects from entering the apartment. Certain chemicals, concentrated essential oils, some types of plants will not ensure the destruction of bugs, but only scare away insects. This is a good prophylactic or anti-relapse drug.
With a high degree of infection, intimidating measures are completely useless. The fight against bed bugs at home is most often carried out with special drugs. Modern products are safe for humans and effective, but protective measures should be followed. Insecticides are sold in the form of gels, aerosols, liquids, powders, crayons and so on. The most effective are liquid insecticides and powder-based solutions. Gels and pastes are best used as a barrier preventive protection due to their long-term residual effect. The fight against bedbugs in the apartment you need to start yourself only after the preparation of the premises. Additionally, protective equipment must be provided.
In general, all existing methods of controlling bugs at home are divided into five groups according to the method of exposure: physical or temperature; mechanical means; proven over the years folk methods; excretion of parasites by insecticides; ultrasonic repellers. When choosing a method, you need to focus on the number of insects in the apartment. With large-scale infection, it is worth starting with aggressive chemicals, and if there are few bugs, then temperature and mechanical methods are effective. It is best to combine several methods and means of combating bedbugs at home. If the methods used are ineffective, it may make sense to contact the pest control service.
Unsuitable temperatures
The essence of the physical method of controlling bugs at home is to create an aggressive temperature regime in the habitats of insects. But first, in any case, you need to carefully examine the home to find the nests of the parasites and destroy them with a vacuum cleaner. Reusable dust collector should be shaken out only on the street, and then doused with boiling water or boiled if the bag is fabric. Adverse temperature conditions can be created by freezing or heating the room strongly.
The fight against bedbugs in an apartment on its own, that is, without the involvement of special services, involves maintaining temperatures incompatible with parasite life: +55 0 and more or -20 0 and lower. Such a regime is difficult to create in an ordinary city apartment, and the method itself does not give a full guarantee of the destruction of all insects. But the physical method of controlling bugs at home is absolutely safe for the health of residents.
Exposure to high or low temperatures
It is necessary to disinfect with a boiling water all the habitats of parasites - cracks in the floor and walls, joints and baseboards. It is advisable to rinse with boiling water twice everything that can withstand such an aggressive heat treatment. Bed sheets, personal items, pillows and blankets should be treated with a steam cleaner or steamer. You can use an ordinary household iron, but the effect will be less. The most inaccessible places are recommended to be disinfected with a powerful building hair dryer, the maximum temperature of which reaches 200 degrees Celsius.
The effectiveness of this method of controlling bugs at home depends on the thoroughness of processing. Heat treatment is recommended at least twice. To consolidate the effect after heating, you can use liquid nitrogen or liquefied gas. Low temperatures can be created using special spray guns or spray cans that contain liquefied substances. Personal things, bedding, blankets, soft toys and pillows are enough to hang out in severe frost, but this is not available in all regions and not throughout the calendar year. After processing, all bed sheets should be packaged in vacuum bags, and mattresses and upholstered furniture should be covered with special covers, all joints and crevices should be treated with special sealants.
The impact on parasites should be targeted, that is, it is not enough just to open the windows wide open on a frosty day. Such tactics only contribute to the freezing of heating and water supply systems, and will not work on bed bugs. For the instant death of parasites, -72 degrees Celsius or +100 0 . with universal and angled nozzles, as well as with a long nozzle.
For cleaning inaccessible places and equipment, a pneumatic sprayer with compressed gas is suitable. This treatment is safe and the substances used are not combustible. The task of instant cooling of surfaces is well managed by a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher that does not leave any marks when used. The gas temperature is about 72 degrees below zero.
Pros and Cons of the Physical Method
In practice, such methods of independent control of bedbugs in an apartment are rarely used, since they are distinguished by the high cost of work and the need for very thorough processing. The indisputable advantage is only the absolute harmlessness for the residents of the apartment and pets, but there are much more disadvantages. There is a significant risk of coating deformation during processing. Also, after temperature exposure, there is no residual effect against new larvae and transitional individuals.
There is a high risk that heat treatment does not completely destroy the bugs. With a short exposure to low or high temperatures, the life of insects can only slow down for a while. With insufficient strength or speed of steam flow, low pressure or temperature, the parasites will not completely disappear. In addition, unlike chemical treatment, the thermal effect does not lure the bugs out of the nests, which does not facilitate the task of getting rid of insects.
Mechanical cleaning of the room from bugs
The mechanical method of controlling bugs at home is practically not used as the main one, but you can not do without it. Firstly, in order to detect parasites, it is effective to create vibrations (move furniture, tap). Secondly, if a nest of bugs is found, it will be necessary to crush insects and clean off the seams if there is no insecticidal spray at hand. Luring insects in a mechanical way is not as effective as chemicals, but removing the nests is better with a vacuum cleaner. In addition, vibration without subsequent destruction of the detected parasites will only contribute to the fact that the bugs will spread throughout the apartment.
An effective, but relatively expensive method of combating domestic bugs is to lure them and bring them to one place - a bait trap. For this, heat exposure, carbon dioxide or special chemicals are used. Domestic manufacturers have not yet released such traps, and buying foreign ones is too expensive. But you can use mechanical Velcro traps. This is not the most effective way to deal with bedbugs, fleas and other domestic parasites, but sometimes it helps.
The use of insecticides
The chemical method of controlling bugs in an apartment is the most commonly used method, simple and effective. In stores you can find a large number of tools, including professional and household. Intimidating and attracting drugs do not always work, and the most effective use of means of contact exposure, exterminating insects moving on treated surfaces, and larvae.
For self-control of bugs with insecticidal agents, individual protective equipment will be needed that will allow avoiding the negative effects of chemistry on the human body: safety glasses, a respirator or gauze bandage, a special suit or clothing that can be disposed of later, rubber gloves. To treat the room with liquid substances that are not equipped with a spray, you must additionally purchase a spray.
Preparation of the apartment for processing
Be sure to prepare the apartment for chemical treatment. All residents, along with their pets, must leave the premises before insecticidal treatment begins. You can return to the apartment no earlier than three hours after the sanitary work and ventilation. Before processing, you need to wash the floors, vacuum the carpets and upholstered furniture, wipe the dust. All utensils, products, personal items, children's toys and hygiene products should be placed in bags, cover the equipment with a film, turn off the electricity.
What to do after disinfection of the home?
After completing the treatment of the apartment with chemicals, it is necessary to ventilate the room for 3-5 hours, wipe all surfaces with a solution of soda ash (40-50 grams per liter of water) and a soap solution. Processing is carried out only in rubber gloves. Adults and pets can return to their homes only after prolonged ventilation and thoroughly wet cleaning.
The choice of a chemical remedy for bedbugs
To effectively control bugs with insecticides, you need to take into account the degree of infection of the apartment. A small number of parasites, for example, can be quickly destroyed with the help of special sprays, and in difficult cases it will be necessary to use concentrated liquid agents. The main means of independent control of bedbugs in an apartment include:
- Highly concentrated liquid products: Sinuzan, Tetrix, Forsyth, Averfos, Primadid, Insecta Dibrofin, Kukarach, Fufanon, Executioner. Most drugs are used in the form of a solution of the required concentration. Liquids allow you to handle large areas.
- Microcapsules: “Xulat C25”, “Delta Zone”, “Minap 22”, GET. The poison continues to act on parasites for six months, destroys insects in large quantities. The preparations are completely safe for residents and pets, they are odorless.
- Aerosols, which include two to three effective insecticides: Raid, Combat, Dichlorvos, Raptor, Prima-U, Karbozol. Sprays have an instant effect, but do not destroy the eggs of parasites. It is recommended that the aerosol treatment be repeated from time to time to fix the result. Such poisons are conveniently used in hard to reach places.
- Powdered insecticides, dusts: "Riapan", "Clean house", "Karbofos", "Mikrofos", "Fenaksin", "Fas", "Pyrethrum" and others. Such tools help to fight not only with domestic bugs, but also with other parasites. The drugs are highly intense and have a long-lasting effect.
- Gels from bedbugs: “Blockbuster”, “Globol”. The effectiveness of such drugs is very controversial, because it is necessary that the particles of the drug get into the digestive tract of the insect.
- Fumigators. Judging by the reviews, the most effective in the fight against bed bugs is the Raptor aquafumigator.
When processing you need to consider several features: insects can be resistant to certain poisons and have the ability to adapt to insecticidal drugs. Therefore, you need to try different means and change the method of exposure (even with a positive result, because over time, the parasites usually adapt to the poison).
The most effective drugs
An effective means of controlling bugs is the drug "Executioner". It is a yellowish liquid without a pungent odor. The poison is packaged in 6 ml plastic bottles. The solution for processing is prepared on the basis of ordinary water. The concentration of the main component of fenthion in the drug reaches 25%. In the body of warm-blooded (including humans) weak poison is neutralized by special enzymes, so a small amount of the drug is safe. The drug has a neuroparalytic effect on parasites.
GET has earned good reviews. This is a microencapsulated suspension, which effectively destroys not only bugs, but also other parasites. The product is poured into 100 ml plastic bottles. Inside the capsule is the active substance - chlorperifos, which poisons a large number of insects. As a result of damage to the nervous system, paralysis occurs. The bug clings to the paws of the capsule and can infect other insects in the nest. The product does not contain allergenic substances, the drug is resistant to ultraviolet rays and temperature extremes, completely safe for people and pets, has a light (non-aggressive) smell and does not leave pollution. In addition, GET is quite economical, because one bottle is enough for high-quality processing of a room with an area of 40 m 2 .
The new generation tool is Hector. Features of the drug are mechanical effects and composition without toxic substances. This is a well-absorbing powder, which, when in contact with the parasite, draws fluid from it, leaving absolutely no chance of survival. "Hector" retains its protective properties for a long time, is safe for people and animals, destroys bugs, which are ways to withstand chemicals.
"Foresight" refers to highly effective and safe means, therefore it is often used to destroy parasites in the apartment. The active substance is perimetrin. It is best to use Foresight with barrier methods. The duration of exposure to the drug after room treatment is approximately two weeks. After that, you need to re-process. Judging by the reviews, two apartment treatments are enough to completely get rid of home bugs.
Folk ways to deal with bed bugs at home
In the apartment, such methods are used very first. Parasites are known to avoid the saturated odor of some plants. Chamomile, tansy, ledum, wormwood can be used both fresh and dry, as part of concentrated aromatic oils. Odorous herbs are laid out in the places where bugs can live in the house, they decorate the room with decoctions and infusions, and wet cleaning is carried out.
More modern folk remedies - vinegar, kerosene, naphthalene, transformer oil, turpentine, methylated spirits and others. It is important that all folk remedies for controlling bugs in the apartment help only temporarily, therefore it is better to use them for preventive purposes.
Contact the pest control service
With extensive infection of the premises, it is advisable to contact the sanitary epidemiological station or the pest control service. , . . , .
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