Some methods of fighting bedbugs are effective, while others are not very effective or do not bring results at all. Unfortunately, many people try everything in search of a working method. Therefore, we have prepared a special article in which we summarized professional experience of what it should be like - effective control of bedbugs.
We believe that relying on chance is recklessness. Spending time on experiments is risky, in case you get unlucky. A proven system of practical steps will come to the rescue, aimed at completely exterminating bedbugs or at least temporarily repelling them while awaiting professional treatment.
The entire set of methods for controlling bedbugs forms two approaches to controlling their spread:
- prevention, which includes preventive measures to prevent infection;
- destruction, or liberation of an already inhabited object from “infection”.
Where to start fighting bedbugs depends on their number in the apartment. If the room is overly populated and parasites are easy to detect even during the day, immediately use chemicals. If bedbugs haven’t even caught your eye yet, then “physical” and “mechanical” will prove to be quite effective methods of fighting bedbugs. The most effective way to combat bedbugs is a comprehensive program for their removal; you can find out about it at the end of the article.
Sofa bugs. How to get rid of it at home
Special methods have been developed to combat beetles. Four main groups can be distinguished:
- People.
- Physical.
- Chemical.
- Help from special services.
The choice largely depends on the financial situation of the owner and his personal preferences. Calling a team of fighters will cost many times more than an independent battle. But efficiency in this case will be guaranteed.
How to get rid of bedbugs on the sofa? Most insect control products are toxic to humans.
Prevention of parasites
To prevent bed bugs from appearing in your apartment, it is enough to follow a number of simple rules, such as:
- Carrying out regular cleaning of the apartment, emptying the home of unnecessary things. The accumulation of unnecessary things leads to the accumulation of various parasites that simply adore these places.
- When purchasing new furniture, and especially used furniture, it is better to carefully inspect the furniture from all sides, noting factors that indicate the presence of parasites.
- The same applies to buying old antiques such as furniture, mirrors in wooden frames, paintings, books, table lamps, etc.
- After the trip, you should check everything very carefully, with mandatory washing and ironing of all things.
- Regular inspection of the bed, in addition, paying attention to bites and their nature. When there are mosquitoes in the room, you can always hear them, but you cannot hear insects. In addition, wounds are very different.
- Carrying out cosmetic repairs, especially replacing wallpaper, baseboards and platforms. The cracks between them and the walls are ideal hiding places for parasites.
If there are insects in the apartment, and especially on the sofa, it is not so easy to get rid of them, especially if children, pregnant women or sick relatives live in the apartment, since the use of chemical control agents in such cases is contraindicated. Therefore, to getting rid of them will require patience and perseverance. You will have to sweat a lot after working with your brain. Everything will be much easier if you use chemistry. It allows you to quickly and efficiently clean your home from pests, and only after that you can organize bouquets of wormwood, tansy or other plants.
While bedbugs have not yet appeared, it is better not to hesitate and take measures to prevent them from actually appearing in the apartment. For this you need very little, but you will be provided with comfortable living conditions.
Turpentine and kerosene
But turpentine or kerosene is poisonous for bedbugs.
On its basis, active compositions are prepared, for example:
- 300 ml of turpentine + 300 ml of ethyl alcohol + 15 g of camphor;
- 600 ml of turpentine + 600 carbolic acid + 0.005 ml of salicylic acid;
- 20 ml turpentine + 20 ml kerosene + 1150 ml boiling water;
- 250 ml of turpentine + 250 ml of kerosene + 60 g of naphthalene.
The resulting mixture should be used to treat the areas where bedbugs were found. After this, the room is sealed for at least a day. Afterwards you need to carry out thorough cleaning and ventilation.
Temperature method
The most effective option, since bed bugs do not tolerate sudden changes in living conditions. And if insects acquire immunity to insecticides and other chemicals, then they are powerless against frost. It is most effective to lower the temperature in the room where the bedbug-infested sofa is located, to at least -10. In private homes in winter, you can turn off the heating and open doors and windows for several hours or days. This is how they fought bedbugs in the villages. However, in the modern world it is very difficult to organize such freezing. Of course, you can take the sofa outside, but insects, their larvae and eggs will still remain in the apartment. In addition, after significant temperature changes, upholstered furniture can deteriorate. It must be dried well to prevent mold from forming. In short, this method is effective, but difficult to implement.
Comfortable temperature for bed bugs is from 25 to 30 degrees. So, you can use the temperature method to remove the beetles, but do it at high temperatures. In hot summers, when the air temperature exceeds 30 degrees, you can expose the sofa to the sun. However, it is worth remembering that the temperature inside the sofa will be lower, which means there is a high probability that it will not be possible to completely “fry” the insects.
Another way to get rid of bed bugs using high temperatures is to steam your sofa. The steam will definitely kill all bed bugs, but it is necessary to treat the furniture in all hard-to-reach places.
Temperature against insects
When using the method, the thermal comfort conditions of the bedbug should be taken into account. Hair dryers, steam generators, and heat guns are used to heat the air. The peculiarity of the application is that in order to achieve a positive result, you will have to be exposed to a hot stream of air or steam for a long time. Unless the temperature reaches 45 degrees, the action will not kill the insect. You can kill with boiling water, but this option is only suitable for a limited number of objects that can withstand it.
On a note!
The downside is the inability to treat the entire home interior. Some elements will simply deteriorate from too high or low temperatures. To completely kill bedbugs using heat or frost, you will need at least 3 treatments.
Steam generator in the fight against bedbugs
Chemical substances
Our grandmothers knew very well how to poison bedbugs. Chemical solutions are sold in pharmacies and hardware stores. They are dangerous to human and animal health. Take pets out of the apartment during treatment.
- Ammonia. Pour 10 milliliters into a container and place it near the beetle’s habitat. The strong smell will make them leave.
- Denatured alcohol. Instantly kills larvae and adults. Treat the area where they live with denatured pure alcohol.
- A mixture of cresol, naphthalene, kerosene in a ratio of 10:1:20. The mixture is used to clean all possible bed bug habitats.
All the substances described are toxic; they can corrode rubber gloves and even skin. Follow safety rules when working with them. Avoid contact with open areas of the body, mucous membranes, and eyes. In this case, rinse with plenty of water and consult a doctor.
Folk remedies
If the treatment cannot wait, improvised means that are available in every home will do:
- vinegar - dilute the table solution halfway with water and thoroughly wipe all surfaces;
- ammonia - add 20 ml of the product to 1 liter of water and wash the floors, wipe the furniture, baseboards;
- Kerosene can kill bedbugs through contact; treat the room without dilution; do not use near open fire;
- Apply turpentine to a soft cloth and treat furniture, baseboards, and window frames.
Removing bedbugs using improvised methods
You can get rid of household parasites using improvised methods while their numbers are small. There are several ways to get rid of bed bugs on your couch.
You can't just kill them. The shell of bed bugs is hard and it is difficult to crush the insect. The eggs are small and difficult to destroy, but if left in hard-to-reach areas, the insect population will rebound.
Vacuum cleaner
You can collect bed bugs using a vacuum cleaner. To do this you need to know all their habitats. Work quickly and carefully so that the insects do not have time to scatter to other shelters. The method is not effective, it will require a lot of effort, and there may be no result.
Steam
Bedbugs do not tolerate high temperatures (more than +50 degrees). This should be used to expel uninvited parasites.
You can remove it using a steam generator. An ordinary household hair dryer will not work; it cannot maintain a high temperature for a long time.
A steam generator should be used to treat bed bug areas and their suspected habitat. They are usually installed at a distance of 3 meters from the place where a person sleeps.
The steam should be directed at the insects and held for a few seconds so that it can affect the eggs.
It is better to use a steam generator to walk through the areas where bedbugs were found several times to ensure the death of all parasites. In this way, you can eliminate the destruction of bed bugs if they have not managed to reproduce in a large colony.
Iron
If nocturnal parasites have been living in the apartment for a long time, you should pay special attention to bedding. This is where bed bugs like to lay their eggs.
A hot iron will help fight them. After washing in hot (or boiled) water, turn the bed linen inside out and iron all seams with a high-temperature iron and steam.
Safety precautions during operation
Precautions when carrying out disinfection
You should kill bedbugs in your home very carefully and strictly follow all precautions. This rule is the same for any existing method of struggle. Particular attention should be paid if there are children and pets in the house.
Rules for safe fighting:
- Before starting treatment, be sure to remove children and pets. If possible, leave the house unoccupied for 2 days to allow the drug to take full effect. The animal is more sensitive to the poison and may die.
- Safety of aquarium inhabitants. If there is one in the house, it is not necessary to remove it. It is enough to cover the container with thick glass and turn off the compressor. This does not apply to the case of freezing.
- Work only in protective clothing. An old robe made from natural materials, as well as a protective mask or cotton-gauze bandage or head scarf, are suitable for this. Hair should be collected and hidden under a headdress.
- Put away food, dishes, and personal hygiene products.
For maximum productivity, the neighbor behind the wall should also carry out the treatment so that the bed bug does not have the opportunity to temporarily migrate to a safe area. If this is not possible, then the adjacent wall between the apartments should be exposed to maximum impact.
Thus, there are many options for how to kill bedbugs in an apartment. But to achieve success in this matter, it is better to combine several methods at once. If the fight is unsuccessful after 3-4 attempts, the sanitary service will always come to the rescue, which deals with the destruction of bedbugs.
How to detect pests
Identifying pests is the most important condition for treating them. Before choosing a remedy for parasites, you need to know for sure whether there are insects on the sofa. There are a number of signs of its presence:
- itching that gets worse every 7 days;
- skin rash located on roads;
- exacerbation of allergies;
- sexually mature individuals remaining after one night between beds;
- a scattering of black marks on the leaves;
- traces of blood on night clothes;
- specific smell.
For those wondering how to tell if there are bed bugs, there is some simple advice. When you wake up in the middle of the night, you should suddenly turn on a bright light. Then the insects that have not had time to disperse can be seen with the naked eye. Between about 3 and 4 o'clock they are at their peak of activity.
The first step is to carefully inspect the bed. During the day, the sleeping furniture should be completely disassembled and every corner examined. Even if no insects are found on the sofa, bed or sofa, they should be thoroughly washed and scalded with boiling water. After the furniture is assembled. If the product is already old, it is better to throw it away and buy a new bed to sleep on.
Among other recommendations on how to determine whether there are bedbugs on a sofa, the most common is the following: you should inspect the surrounding area. First of all, you need to look in these places:
- between curtains;
- in the corners;
- behind the rugs;
- behind the baseboard;
- under the wallpaper.
It is in these secluded corners that unpleasant neighbors like to hide. After the presence of bed bugs on the sofa has been eliminated, you need to think about how to get rid of bed bugs at home.
Heat treatment
For normal life, bedbugs need an environment with a temperature of +20°С… +30°С.
A decrease or increase in temperature to them . You can take advantage of this fact to destroy insects that live in the mattress, old furniture and all those things that we carefully packed in sealed bags. If the bedbug infestation occurred in the summer, take everything possible outside into the full sun. It is not a fact that all individuals will die immediately; repeat the procedure for several days in a row. If it's winter outside , you can take items out into the cold and expose the parasites to cold treatment.
In what cases does an apartment need to be re-processed?
After treating the sofa against domestic insects using improvised means at home, the parasites die within a month. It happens that insects adapt to chemicals. The survival rate in this case exceeds 93%, both adults and eggs remain.
With direct spraying, people die within 30-40 minutes, mass damage occurs within 2-3 days.
During this period of time, the parasites spread throughout the apartment, spreading across the surface of the poisoned floor and receiving their dose of poison. Young individuals die 2 weeks after disinfestation; larvae hatching from eggs also die. If capsule preparations were used during processing, the shelf life is extended by 30 days. These drugs have a longer duration of activity and can act for a long time.
Don't panic if the insects appear again after treatment; wait another 2 weeks.
Repeated treatment with stronger poisons is carried out in the following cases:
- new bites constantly appear on the skin;
- the habitat has changed: insects have moved from the bedroom to the living room or children's room;
- infection occurred again at home: through ventilation or through clothing;
- self-hypnosis in the subconscious - it seems to apartment owners that the pests have not disappeared anywhere.
If you do not follow pest control rules, not all eggs will die the first time. Possibly improper preparation or loss of the nest while spraying the poison. The second option is that they did wet cleaning too quickly, the poison did not work.
If the sofa is old, you can treat bedbugs with a more effective method: you need to remove the upholstery, after treating the upholstered furniture, it is thrown away along with the new material.
Survivors develop immunity to the drugs, which is passed on to their offspring. Secondary disinsection is carried out in several stages, and this is best done by professionals. The algorithm looks like this:
- the level of infection is assessed;
- the most dangerous areas are identified;
- food and personal belongings are removed from the room;
- small children, animals and adults, except for the exterminator, leave the apartment;
- furniture moves to the center of the room; passages to the walls must be open;
- the chemical composition is prepared;
- spraying is in progress.
The specialist closes the windows tightly, the room can be ventilated after 3 hours (according to the instructions). Additionally, wet cleaning is carried out.
This method allows you to permanently clean furniture from parasites.
Clue! A few days after the procedure, the room will need to be cleaned - the insects will come out of their hiding place and die. You can use a vacuum cleaner to collect dead or half-dead bloodsuckers.
Bagul or wild rosemary
This plant has a second name “bedbug”, confirming that its properties as a natural insecticide have been known among people for a very long time and have successfully stood the test of time. It has a strong aroma (this applies to both fresh and dry herbs), intolerable to bed bugs, which have a developed sense of smell. Therefore, the plant does not kill them, but forces them to leave the room.
The effect applies only to adult individuals; accordingly, wild rosemary cannot be removed for at least 2-3 weeks in order to get rid of not only the existing population, but also new individuals hatching from eggs and larvae at different stages of development.
When choosing wild rosemary to combat bed bugs, you need to take into account that the specific aroma affects not only them, but also people and pets. A high concentration of phytoncides often provokes persistent migraines, constant bouts of coughing and sneezing, and a sore throat, even in those who are usually not particularly sensitive to odors.
Signs of sofa bed bugs
You can find out if there are blood-sucking insects in your home by the following signs:
- Bites of a certain nature on the human body. They appear in the morning. In addition, depending on external signs, the resulting spots can easily be mistaken for a reaction to a mosquito bite or other parasite. Bed bugs make several bites in food they find nearby. Pests attack a person on the sofa while moving, creating a trail of red dots or spots.
- Drops of blood left by pests on the sofa. They are always small in size and appear if a person crushes an insect in a dream. The furniture beetle is very swollen, with a lot of blood, and is easy to crush.
- A specific smell reminiscent of old cognac. It appears when there are more bed bugs. They multiply quickly inside the sofa, so the pest population increases in a short time.
Signs of sofa parasites
This symptom is a consequence of the accumulation of waste products of bed bugs on various surfaces and on the sofa.
- The presence of “shells” in various hidden places of the apartment. As insects grow, they shed their chitinous coverings several times, which allows them to become sexually mature individuals. The more pests there are inside the sofa, the faster the amount of debris will increase.
- When bitten by bedbug larvae, a person may wake up immediately, since at this stage of development they have not yet developed the function of administering an anesthetic substance. Used by adults for bites.
- Pest feces inside the sofa. Industrial waste is similar to poppy seeds.
The most obvious sign is bed bugs. If their number increases, parasites are found in a variety of places and on the inside of sofas. As soon as there are suspicions that an apartment is infested with bedbugs, you first need to look for them where the sleeping places of family members are located.
How to prevent the spread
To stop the reproduction process, you need to create unacceptable conditions for this. The main factor is temperature difference. Conditions within +25…+35°C are considered comfortable for parasites. When the temperature is lowered with the help of an air conditioner to +18 and below, the development of insects slows down and the reproduction process is inhibited.
This will prevent the spread of insects until the bedbug nests on the sofa are destroyed.
When introducing pests, it is necessary to find their habitat. If it is destroyed, the number of insects will decrease many times. This is the fastest way to control pests in your home and also prevent further spread of insects.
Find all bed bug nests inside the sofa
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