In the last century, bedbugs or other bugs could only be found on the pages of M. Zoshchenko’s stories, and they practically never appeared in the apartment. However, today these small pests actively inhabit various residential areas.
Thus, the question of how you can destroy beetles or other similar representatives of hemiptera (Hemiptera) in your home is considered the most pressing and topical.
Is it possible to get rid of these insects on your own or is it better to contact special services? A detailed answer to this question and other nuances are given below in this article.
Preparing the apartment before the procedures
How is bed bugs currently being effectively combated?
Before direct chemical treatment of bed bugs or other similar small pests in his home with a spray gun, the tenant performs the following actions:
- performs the usual cleaning of his home - vacuuming, washing floors;
- puts things back in their original places;
- hides valuables in hard-to-reach sealed places - telephone, keyboard, computer mouse, television remote control, telephone charger, laptop;
- wraps tabletops, window sills, stools with film - reduces the time for cleaning the living space after disinfestation.
Destruction of bedbugs with various chemicals
How to quickly and permanently get rid of bedbugs? When independently exterminating bed bugs or other similar parasites, people use a variety of chemical means.
At the moment they use 3 main groups of insecticides:
- aerosols (for example, Raptor, Dichlorvos, Reid);
- liquid solutions (for example, Lacterin, Forsyth);
- powders (for example, Neopin).
When chemically treating various representatives of hemiptera with a spray bottle, residents also use other solutions (for example, camphor oil, kerosene, turpentine) that effectively destroy these small pests.
You also need to keep in mind the list of insecticidal and insectoacaricidal preparations for controlling bedbugs, which are not registered in the Russian Federation, so they should not be purchased:
- Vergus "(Veriegus)" - is a microencapsulated French insecticide, odorless, against all types of insects;
- "Armoseaw" is an American insecticide against representatives of hemipterans, fleas, and ticks. This coarse powder repels them well. It consists of the shells of sea corals;
- “Klopootravin” + “Klop-Control” - insecticides for complex control of bedding representatives of hemiptera (200 ml). The second drug is a microcapsule concentrate;
- French drug “NO BEDBUGS!” consists of Azadirachty oil (special formula), manufactured by B-actif.
Household chemicals
What else can you do if there are bedbugs in your apartment?
When eliminating bedding or other similar insects, people use the following household chemicals:
- Dichlorvos Neo. The insecticide has an improved formula and consists of active components: piperonyl butoxide, permethrin and cypermethrin. It also consists of ingredients such as ethyl alcohol, fragrance, preservatives, stabilizers;
- Clean House is a synthetic pyrethroid. It is a yellow-brown liquid with a melting point of 68–70 °C, which enhances its decomposition. Therefore, they cannot treat hot, stuffy rooms;
- The Raptor aerosol is manufactured using advanced modern technology, and representatives of hemiptera are produced in one go. This drug consists of alphacypermethrin, hydrocarbon propellant, solvent, neopinamine forte, pipelonyl butoxide synergist;
- Combat consists of 2 insecticides - cyphenothrin and imiprotrin. These substances have a contact intestinal effect on pests. In contact with the chitinous covering of the body, particles of the Super Spray insecticide lead to rapid paralysis or death.
Also, on the recommendation of specialists from the SES, residents use concentrated effective products, which they first dilute with water, and then spray them or apply them to various indoor surfaces.
Before using such substances, the tenant closes open parts of the body or airways.
Aerosols
How to get rid of bedbugs forever? This can be done using various aerosols. When using such means, the tenant sprays poison, which gets inside the nose or onto the membrane of insects.
As a result, when spraying homes, people use the following aerosols:
- "Raid";
- "Clean house";
- "Dichlorvos";
- "Raptor" etc.
After spraying specific insecticides in a room, some part of the drug still remains in the air and penetrates into the human body through the gastrointestinal tract, mucous membranes or lungs.
Therefore, before starting chemical spray treatment of his home, the tenant puts on a mask and gloves, and also removes people and cats, dogs or other animals from the premises for several hours or days.
Powders
How else can you get rid of bedbugs in an apartment yourself? You can remove them from your home using special powders.
Residents use the following:
- "Riafas";
- "Riapan";
- "Super Fas";
- "Pyrethrum";
- "Neopine."
When distributing such drugs in cracks, between baseboards or in other closed places where sunlight does not penetrate, the tenant uses special devices for insufflation (for example, a regular medical bulb with a tip).
When purchasing a powder, you first need to look at the expiration date of the insecticide and the tightness of the packaging. After all, its effectiveness is directly related to its storage conditions.
Liquid substances
How else can you get rid of bedbugs in an apartment? If there are such insects in a living room, residents try to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
Residents use the following liquid insecticides:
- "Get" The main active ingredient of Get is the acaricide and pesticide chlorpyrifos. The substance belongs to the class of organophosphorus compounds. This insecticide has a long residual effect - 6-18 months;
- "Dobrohim Micro" - gives an acute, long-lasting effect. The active ingredient of Dobrokhim FOS is 20% fenthion (also a pesticide). Its residual activity persists for 4-6 months;
- "Lambda zone" - has a long-lasting effect. Representatives of hemipterans die within 24 hours, but then their descendants are born. This remedy is effective for 8 weeks, but for preventive purposes it can last 6 months;
- “Fufanon Super” evaporates quickly, that is, it gives a fumigant effect. That is, small particles of the insecticide fall into small crevices and remote closed spaces, where they overtake representatives of hemipterans. This approach is considered the most effective.
PARAGRAPH
Insectoacaricidal agent.
Concentrate for the destruction of: cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, fleas, adult flies and larvae, adult mosquitoes and larvae, rat mites. Concentration, AI, [Class], Form: 5%, Lambda-cyhalothrin, [Pyrethroid], aqueous emulsion concentrate.
Consumption rates:
- against cockroaches, fly larvae, wasps, use a working suspension prepared by adding 5 ml of the drug per 1 liter of water
Advantages: Effective on all types of insects, especially effective against bedbugs (larvae). It does not repel insects from treated surfaces, but rather destroys them. Residual effect 5 - 8 weeks after application, regardless of surface type. It is a good alternative to products to which insects have shown resistance. The low consumption rate guarantees attractive treatment costs. Does not damage, spoil or leave stains on treated surfaces.
- from bedbugs, ants, fleas, adult flies, rat ticks - 2.5 ml per 1 liter of water
- against adult mosquitoes - 1.25 ml per 1 liter of water, the consumption rate of the drug is from 50 to 100 ml per 1 sq.m.
- from mosquito larvae 1 ml per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate - 25-50 ml per 1 sq. m of reservoir.
Modern means
How to quickly remove bedbugs at home? Modern insecticides are safe drugs if he uses them. Such insecticides completely remove small pests from any home.
As a result, residents use the following modern means:
- gels: Blockbuster, Fumitox-gel or others;
- liquid solutions: Fufanon, Forsythe or others;
- powders: Riapan, Neopin or others;
- aerosols: Carbozol, Reid or others;
- chalk: Mashenka or its various analogues.
The quickest way to permanently cleanse your home of such parasites is to use the above mentioned liquid specific solutions and powders.
During a thorough spray treatment of his home, the tenant receives a much better long-term effect than when using sprays, crayons or gel.
Mechanical destruction of parasites
If a few bedbugs appear in the apartment walls, then it is quite possible to get rid of them yourself, rather than calling specialists from the SES. This can be done mechanically (physically) - to remove the parasites out.
How else can you fight bed bugs on your own? When physically affecting one or more parasites, the residents make a lot of noise - they wake up these insects. Then, people knock on furniture, move various objects, etc.
Then, these small pests run out on their own from their previous habitats. Next, the tenant tramples these small pests underfoot or sucks them up with a vacuum cleaner so that they disappear without a trace.
Method 5 – denatured alcohol
How to poison house bugs if you know exactly where their nest is? Use denatured alcohol for this purpose. It is extremely simple to use: you need to find a place where parasites accumulate and pour this alcohol over it - the pests will instantly die. You should not use this product only for surface treatment: in this case, it will have absolutely no effect.
Tip: instead of denatured alcohol, you can use aviation liquid - it has the same principle of action on insects. Just be very careful when using it, as it belongs to the group of flammable substances.
Video: rules for preparing and destroying bedbugs:
Temperature effect
It is known that bedbugs die when exposed to heat or extreme cold. Therefore, SES specialists carry out a special thermal spray treatment of the entire room.
Controlling bedbugs or other bugs at specific temperatures is safe and does not involve the use of toxic chemicals.
Also, when exterminating insects from all rooms, residents can destroy not only parasites, but also their eggs.
Destruction of small pests in the cold
Bedbugs die quickly from severe frosts, because they cannot tolerate temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius or lower.
Under a certain temperature influence, these parasites die within a few hours.
When destroying various representatives of hemiptera in winter, residents open all the windows and let the frosty air inside. At this time they go outside and then walk there for several hours.
Thus, under the influence of frost, all small pests quickly die.
Removing insects with high temperature
In addition to low temperatures, bedbugs die quickly due to high temperatures - over +45 degrees Celsius. However, the eggs of these insects are more stable: they live at +50 degrees Celsius for more than a day.
More often, during residential heat treatment, specialists use steam generators, which they use to cover surfaces infested with small pests.
When such parasites appear on clothing or on the carpet, the tenant gets rid of them by using his own iron.
However, the destruction of hemipteran representatives in this way is a long and difficult process.
DOUBLET
The insectoacaricidal agent “Duplet” is an emulsion concentrate in the form of a transparent liquid of light yellow color. Contains as active ingredients (AI): malathion (45%) - a compound from the FOS group and the pyrethroid alphacypermethrin (5%).
Please note that compounds from the FOS group are more active against one group of insects. Pyrethroids are very active against another group of insects. “Duplet” is an ideal symbiosis of a product containing a high percentage of both FOS and pyrethroid - this is what makes Duplet so effective. As a solvent, the “Duplet” preparation uses an original organic compound that enhances the effect of pyrethroids, has no odor and has no aggressive effect on the skin and other materials. But the insect repellent “Duplet” is not only a combination of two drugs, but also a balanced composition of compounds, which significantly increases the resistance of the drug to the development of insect resistance (addiction) to it.
SUPER PROPERTIES of “Doublet”: -Fast action - the effect won’t keep you waiting long! -Has an acute insecticidal and acaricidal effect on insects. -Long residual effect (4 - 6 weeks) on any type of surface. -Has a dual mechanism of action, which makes it possible to effectively eradicate synanthropic insects, including populations resistant to the action of the most common pyrethroids and FOS.
The use of two active ingredients simultaneously (pyrethroid and FOS) allows for significant savings on the drug consumption rate. -The low cost of the drug and low consumption rates make “Duplet” a very interesting insectoacaricide for professionals. -Does not damage treated surfaces and leaves no visible traces of processing. -Does not accumulate in the environment.
Preparation of working solutions, consumption rates
Insects:
The amount of drug required to prepare 1 liter of working solution
What area (m2) can be treated with 1 liter of the drug.
It was calculated at the rate of 50 ml of working solution per 1 m2. cockroaches: - 10 ml per 1 liter of water 2,000 m2 bedbugs, fleas, adult flies, adult mosquitoes - 2.5 ml 8,000 m2 ants, fly larvae, rat mites - 5 ml 4,000 m2 mosquito larvae 1.25 ml 16,000 m2
Traditional methods
In addition to heat treatment of the bed or sofa, residents remove these parasites in other places - on the carpet, on clothes, etc.
How can you poison bedbugs in your apartment yourself? In this case, people use various folk methods and remedies (in particular, a vinegar solution).
Moreover, when carrying out disinfestation at home, residents use only safe means (for example, turpentine). Then they, for example, mix 50 grams. ammonia with 150 ml of turpentine and 50 gr. laundry soap, and then spray this solution over 1 or several rooms.
Detecting and getting rid of small pests on the carpet
When destroying various bedbugs on the carpet, the tenant performs the following actions:
- vacuums the carpet frequently;
- uses one of the powdered products listed above;
- knocks out the carpet outside (more often when there is already frost).
However, small pests rarely appear in carpets because they are more likely to inhabit more enclosed areas.
Killing insects on clothes
When destroying various bedbugs on his clothes, the tenant performs the following actions:
- washes her wardrobe items in very hot water;
- completely irons his clothes;
- Sprinkles contaminated clothing with bleach.
To achieve maximum long-term effects, people add a specific insecticide to the powder.
Get Total and Get Express
Get is very advertised and popular today. The flagship product of this brand is Get Total, the auxiliary product is Get Express. We often work in apartments that people before us treated either with Get Total or with a mixture of Total and Express, and we can’t say anything outstanding about this product.
The main problem with Get is that its active ingredient is chlorpyrifos. On its basis there is a professional drug Agran, only Agran also contains cypermethrin. So, Agran poisons bedbugs in all services in a row, mainly due to its cheapness. It is especially loved by novice exterminators and those who are not involved in pest control professionally, but want to quickly make a pretty penny in the summer, during the season. They have this classic of the genre: buy a garden sprayer, a canister of Agran and advertise “professional removal of bedbugs the first time.”
Because of this, almost all bedbugs in Moscow, St. Petersburg, throughout the Moscow region and in many regional capitals have already encountered chlorpyrifos in Agran, and many have already managed to develop resistance to it. And that’s why Get Total based on it often doesn’t work.
It is interesting that the manufacturer is actively focusing attention, and buyers are relying on the microencapsulated structure of Gets. This is not entirely correct: the microencapsulated structure of Geta does not increase its effectiveness. Microencapsulation allows you to increase the safety of the product for people and pets, and Get Total is really good at this - it is low-hazard and practically odorless. But it poisons bedbugs in the same way as pure, unencapsulated chlorpyrifos. And whether it will work for you is a big question.
Theoretically, the mixture of Get Total with Get Express should kill bedbugs for sure, because the active substance of Get Express is lambda-cyhalothrin, a substance of a different class. But in fact, due to errors in processing, even with such a mixture, people often fail to remove bedbugs. Although we almost always remove bedbugs with professional preparations based on lambda-cyhalothrin the first time.
Special services
At the moment, there is no 100% strategy for eliminating bed bugs in apartments, in which you can spend a little time and money, and then immediately remove all the parasites.
If a lot of similar insects appear in one or several rooms, the tenant should immediately contact specialists from a special pest control service (SES).
This way you can save a lot of time and money.
What are the features of the work of disinfection companies? Specialists from the SES destroy insects using cold fog generators - ULV DH 30/C 100. Such devices reduce the volume of insecticide used by releasing a uniform fog.
Thus, apartment disinfestation takes place in a safe manner.
Disinfestation by SES specialists is the fastest, highly effective method of destroying sofa or other parasites and their eggs, which are very difficult to get rid of on your own.
CONFIDANT
Confidant insecticide is a water-based emulsion concentrate. Contains imidacloprid 20% as an active substance (AI), a compound from the group of neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids are a new group of insecticides, fundamentally different in structure and mechanism of action from the widely used FOS, pyrethroids, and carbamates. These are antagonists of the nicotine acetylcholine receptor (NACHR), which have intestinal, contact and systemic effects on insects. This is what determines the high efficiency and long-term residual effect of the Confidant drug on insects, even on populations that are resistant (including cross-resistant) to FOS groups, pyrethroids and carbamates. “Confidant” contains a number of original components that ensure almost complete extraction of active substances from the preparative form, which distinguishes it from other drugs.
Why you should choose “Confidant”: -High efficiency even in populations that are resistant (including cross-resistant) to FOS groups, pyrethroids and carbamates. -Has an intestinal, contact and systemic effect on insects. -Long residual effect against insects (at least 6 weeks) on any type of surface. -Does not reduce effectiveness when used in high temperature areas. -Fantastically low consumption rate guarantees an attractive cost of treatment. -Excellent toxicological characteristics are ensured by the water-based formulation and the unique properties of the active substance. -It is odorless, does not cause irritation, does not damage treated surfaces and does not leave visible traces of treatment. -The lack of repellent effect on insects makes it possible to use “Confidant” for preparing food baits.
Preparation of working solutions, consumption rates:
Insects
The amount of drug required to prepare 1 liter of working solution
What area (m2) can be treated with 1 liter of the drug.
It was calculated at the rate of 50 ml of working solution per 1 m2. cockroaches 2.5ml 8,000m2 bedbugs, ants 1.25ml 16,000m2 fleas, adult mosquitoes 0.625ml 32,000m2 mosquito larvae 0.45ml 44,444m2
Dobrokhim Micro is an insectoacaricidal concentrate for the destruction of: cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, fleas, adult flies and larvae, adult mosquitoes and larvae, wasps. The product is a microencapsulated suspension in the form of a white to light gray liquid, odorless or with a faint odor of flavoring.
The product is produced using a new, advanced microencapsulation technology, in which the active ingredient is placed in polymer (rather than gelatin) microcapsules.
COMPOUND
Contains the highly active organophosphorus compound chlorpyrifos in an amount of 25% as an active ingredient (AI).
Stages of pest control
How else can you fight bedbugs at home? Even if a tenant finds only 1 parasite in his home, then he urgently needs to take specific measures for special spray treatment of this room.
After all, these insects multiply and multiply very quickly.
As a result, the larger the bedbug population, the longer and more difficult the fight against these small pests becomes.
Destruction of adults
How to get rid of bedbugs? When removing such insects from a living space, residents either call a disinfection team or destroy them themselves using specific available means.
How to remove bedbugs from an apartment yourself and at home?
When carrying out apartment chemical treatment with a spray gun, the tenant uses the following devices:
- durable rubber gloves;
- a protective mask that protects the mouth and nose from toxic substances;
- special glasses to prevent poison from getting into your eyes;
- a spray bottle that sprays poison;
- special measuring container.
It’s rare that you can get small pests out of rooms the first time. More often, owners carry out 1 or more treatments.
To obtain the desired effect, chemicals can be used together with specific folk remedies or with physical methods of exterminating hemipteran representatives.
Before you buy a particular solution for such small pests, you first need to read various reviews about it on the Internet, and also ask the sellers for their opinion about it.
Destruction of a clutch of eggs
Often, residents of infested apartments quickly destroy adult sofa or other bedbugs, but after some time these insects reappear in the bed.
After all, it is not enough just to kill adult parasites - you also need to destroy their small eggs.
At the moment, there are 3 methods of getting rid of bedbug eggs:
- heat treatment;
- mechanical removal of bedbugs;
- treating your home with a variety of chemicals.
Bedbug eggs are much smaller than the small pests themselves - their size is 0.5-1 mm, but females leave them in large quantities in one place. Therefore, they can be quickly found.
When thermally treating apartments, residents pour boiled water over areas where insects accumulate or scald them with steam.
During mechanical extermination of bedbugs, the resident puts on rubber gloves and kills these insects in this way - by crushing them with his hands.
When carrying out chemical treatment with a spray bottle of a residential premises, the tenant uses specific products, the validity period of which is 1–2 months. Such insecticides not only kill adult parasites, but also their hatched larvae.
Video
Destruction of bed bugs
Method 10 – turpentine
How to effectively poison parasites? A very good remedy against bedbugs at home can be prepared using turpentine and salicylic acid. To get it you will need:
- 6 grams of salicylic acid;
- 80 ml turpentine;
- 40 grams of phenol.
The presented components must be mixed until smooth, and then poured directly onto the bedbug nest. There is no point in wiping surfaces with it - the poison will still need to be washed off so as not to accidentally poison the people living in the house. When working with such chemicals, it is imperative to wear personal protective equipment, including respirators or at least medical masks.
Prevention
How to prevent the occurrence of parasites, so that you don’t have to deal with bedbugs in your apartment in the future?
In order to prevent the formation of such representatives of hemiptera, a person performs the following actions:
- inspects the sleeping place while on a tourist trip or business trip;
- stores bags and any suitcases on the last shelves above in the hallway and closets;
- treats things and bags that she takes on trips with various essential oils;
- if after a trip a traveler finds many representatives of hemipterans on himself, then he washes his things at a temperature of 50 degrees, or sends them to dry cleaning;
- does not use used furniture or carefully inspects it and treats it with insecticides before purchasing;
- carefully isolates his premises from neighboring residential premises;
- periodically steam treats the sofa and other furniture, etc.
Also, the owner of the apartment sometimes sprays the ventilation ducts with a variety of insecticidal agents.
If bedbugs appear in 1 or several rooms, how can you get rid of them? The basic rules for bedbug disinfestation are given below.
How to properly disinfest bedbugs
How to properly kill bedbugs and other bugs in an apartment?
When destroying sofa or other similar insects, the tenant performs the following actions:
- removes to another place or hides in strong and well-closed bags all perishable and other foods and utensils so that chemicals do not get on them;
- puts her children's clothes and various toys in a closed place. Before this, the tenant carefully examines them - they may contain 1 or several bugs and their eggs;
- covers only the lower and upper zones of the room with a variety of chemicals: 30–50 cm below the ceiling level and the same amount above the baseboard;
- after finishing the treatment, thoroughly ventilate the apartment for 2 hours. At the same time, the owner himself leaves the house.
It should be noted that the appearance of bedding and other representatives of hemipterans in an apartment or private house is considered a pressing problem these days.
Therefore, if they appear, we drive them out of the apartment as early as possible.
Quartzization
Another interesting method of combating domestic bedbugs. Using ultraviolet lamps works one hundred percent. The main thing is that the treatment is carried out over the maximum area. To do this, you need to disassemble all the beds, armchairs and sofas, and unroll the bed linen and hang it right in front of the lamp.
Review
Maxim: “When bedbugs infested our apartment, my mother (she works as a nurse) brought a quartz lamp from the hospital. She was then guided by the usual logic - if quartz treatment kills bacteria, then it will also affect insects. We repeated the procedure every day for a week. You know, the bedbugs really disappeared. This is such an interesting method!”
Precautions when treating living quarters for bedbugs
Before using a toxic substance in his apartment, the tenant follows the following safety rules when treating his home:
- removes all food products in an inaccessible and closed place;
- opens all windows and the balcony door;
- opens all hard-to-reach places where there are bedbugs;
- uses protective gloves and a mask.
To completely remove all bedbugs, you need to treat your apartment several times.
Specialists from the SES recommend that owners of apartments or private houses use complex means of eliminating parasites. In such a situation, we get rid of bedbugs using a specific folk method and various insecticides.
As a result, the owner quickly removes all representatives of hemipterans from his apartment and forgets about them forever.
