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Kikimora September 16, 2016Speciality: I love my home, I like to equip it, periodically change something, do it with my own hands. There are no special hobbies. I am the administrator of a small women's forum.
Invasion
For the second time this year, my mother-in-law called from Altai and complained about an invasion of forest bugs. Their first unexpected visit happened at the end of April, and now they came again, both times not one by one, but in a crowd. The first time she complained about the sanitary services, since people could not get rid of bedbugs on the balcony on their own, and they were not in a hurry to help.
Now the people have learned to deal with uninvited guests, and have realized that this phenomenon is temporary and does not pose a threat to health. And I began to wonder - why did they rush into the city? Here they live quietly in the raspberries, they don’t encroach on our territory. Here's what we found out.
Variety of parasites
There are several types of bedbugs that settle inside an apartment or on a balcony. Often these are forest and bed ones.
They differ in appearance, size, and harm humans in different ways.
Forest bugs are considered quite common guests; they infect balconies, corners, baseboards, and interior spaces. The reasons for the appearance are:
- high air temperature;
- cold snap;
- flood.
- typhus;
- smallpox;
- tuberculosis.
- the presence of 4–5 bites in one place;
- itchy skin;
- finding insect eggs;
- the bed has dark spots and a specific smell.
Favorable factors for the reproduction of unwanted guests is heat. The total number of attacking parasites often reaches several dozen. They feed on the sap of plants, so the presence of flowers in the house promotes the settlement of parasites and active development. Otherwise, uninvited guests stay for a short time. The forest bug does not harm humans.
As for bedding insects, they pose a great danger not only to people, but also to pets, being blood-sucking.
A bite can transmit serious diseases:
Living creatures and lack of light are considered favorable factors for the development of bedbugs. They begin their activity in the evening, at dusk.
Their appearance is characterized by certain signs:
It is not uncommon to see bedbugs crawling, especially if you get up at night.
Refugees from the forest
The appearance of bedbugs in cities is a clear sign of some kind of cataclysm. Or vice versa: weather conditions were so favorable for these small creatures that they contributed to their active reproduction and the emergence of an excess population looking for free habitat.
The forest bug changes its color along with the foliage: from bright green in spring to brown in autumn
For example, the Altai invasion this year was associated with the early arrival of spring and unusually high air temperatures for this time, favorable for reproduction. But forest dwellers can “flee” to escape to cities for reasons such as:
Since these insects feed exclusively on plant sap , city residents have no need to worry about them staying with them for a long time. In any case, in the countless numbers that so frightened the residents of Barnaul.
Can you imagine the scale of the disaster?
But if there is something to profit from near the house, and in the apartment itself there is a branch of the Botanical Garden, uninvited guests may linger. In the absence of food, they will try to leave their inhospitable hosts as soon as possible.
They can only cause moral harm to a person - with their unpleasant appearance and smell emanating from a frightened or crushed bug with their own hands. These bugs do not bite and do not cause allergies .
Only domestic plants can suffer, especially if the female manages to lay eggs on the underside of the leaves, the number of which can reach up to a hundred.
Methods of penetration of bedbugs
Insects can appear at home in various ways - external and internal. The first are characterized by the following:
Public transport is one of the sources of bedbugs in your home
The internal routes of penetration of bedbugs are:
The accumulation of insects can be large; they infect the corners of rooms, cracks between baseboards, walls, and on the ceiling.
Causes of insects
Many factors contribute to the development of bedbugs. Knowing them, you can promptly prevent the appearance of insects in your home.
The main reasons for the spread of some species is the large amount of vegetation. You can get rid of them by planting black cohosh among the flowers.
Another cause of parasites can be a flood, fire, or severe frost. Because of this, uninvited guests infect apartments, balconies, infect corners, furniture, and often live in insulation in winter. For preventive purposes, windows and doors should always be closed tightly; after a walk in the fresh air, clothes and pets should be inspected.
Often parasites crawl from neighbors through doors, sockets, and cracks in the ceiling.
In order not to provoke the development of a large number of insects, the causes and the bedbugs themselves should be dealt with in a timely manner. For this purpose, special disinfectants are used, but traditional methods are also effective.
Why an apartment?
In order to develop and reproduce normally, bed bugs need human blood, and given the feeding style of bloodsuckers, the parasites cannot get food far from a sleeping person. This is the main reason why bedbugs will prefer a cozy apartment where they will be close to the victim. Temperature conditions are also important for insects. They are comfortable in a living room, since there are no significant temperature changes during the calendar year, while even on a glazed balcony it is too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
Bugs drunk on blood
Elimination of forest parasites
How to get rid of insects? It is very important to do this without harming yourself, family members, or pets.
To exterminate parasites, special methods are used, which depend on the number of “guests” on the balcony of the affected apartment. If a small amount is found, you can use a vacuum cleaner or wipe it off with a rag, throwing it away from your place of residence. Covering the window sill with a cloth soaked in vinegar and installing a mesh helps prevent the reappearance of insects.
When the number of bedbugs exceeds a hundred, they fill not only the balcony, but the entire room, more serious measures should be taken:
The main food of forest bugs is vegetation. Therefore, you should regularly inspect your indoor flowers. An effective defense is to scatter fragrant herbs on the balcony or wash the floor with wormwood.
Forest bugs are harmless to humans, so you can eliminate the parasites yourself using insecticides and folk remedies.
Precautionary measures
When black bugs appear, first of all, it is necessary to clear the space as much as possible from unnecessary things. It is recommended to carry out all manipulations wearing protective gloves. You cannot bring anything infected into the apartment from the loggia, otherwise the insects will spread throughout the apartment.
Blood-sucking small bugs multiply exponentially, so it is best to pack unnecessary items in airtight double or triple bags and tie them tightly. Then they need to be thrown into a trash can on the street. If there is an armchair or sofa on the balcony that you are not going to get rid of yet, it is best to treat it with steam or insecticides.
Steam generator treatment kills bedbugs
At the last stage, it is necessary to vacuum all areas of the loggia, then do wet cleaning. It is advisable to add ammonia to the water for rags. You will need two teaspoons per liter of liquid. Before closing the door to the balcony and going into the apartment, you should treat the entire space with “Executioner”, “Raid” or other drugs.
You can enter the loggia only the next day. At the same time, it is necessary to re-clean with a vacuum cleaner and treat with ammonia. To accurately get rid of insects on the first or last floor, it is recommended to spray all possible corners and places where uninvited guests gather with special means.
Black beetles that appear on the balcony can cause a lot of unpleasant moments. Some of them are absolutely safe and cannot cause any harm to humans. And other small bugs, such as bed bugs, are very dangerous to humans. You can deal with them on your own, spending just a few days destroying them.
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Elimination of street parasites
In addition to forest insects, street insects cause significant harm to humans and domestic animals. They are often carriers of dangerous diseases, so when they are detected, certain actions must be taken in a timely manner.
There are special organizations to eliminate insects, and you can also kill bedbugs yourself with insecticidal solutions. The street parasite spreads quite quickly, as a result of which the entire area of the apartment, balcony, furniture and carpets have to be treated with toxic agents.
The main habitats of insects are:
The fight against bedbugs will be highly effective if all residents of the entrance join the process.
How to protect your home from pests?
It is better to prevent the occurrence of insects than to eliminate them. But still, if bedbugs appear on the balcony or inside the house, you must follow simple rules:
If bedbugs occur on a balcony or apartment, it is best to seek help from a special service than to fight it yourself.
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Prevention of bedbugs on the balcony and in the apartment
But still, it is much easier to prevent insects from appearing in your home than to later get rid of them by all means. To do this, you just need to follow simple rules to prevent the appearance of these insects in your home. These include measures such as:
If, nevertheless, despite all the preventive measures taken, bedbugs get onto your balcony or inside the room, you should not postpone treatment against them until later, but need to carry it out as quickly and efficiently as possible.
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