How to effectively get rid of bedbugs in your house and apartment forever, quickly

The question of how to get rid of bedbugs is periodically asked not only by hotel owners, but also by residents of city apartments. Annoying blood-sucking insects cause a lot of discomfort, interfere with sleep and leave unpleasant red spots on the victim’s body.

In this article we will look at everything you need to know to successfully combat ectoparasites. Dez Group sanitary service specialists will tell you how to get rid of bedbugs at home, and why the cold fog method has long remained one of the most effective disinfestation tools.

Where do bedbugs come from?

Unsanitary conditions are not the main reason for the appearance of blood-sucking ectoparasites in apartments, as many people think. Keeping your home clean does not guarantee protection against bed bugs.

For effective prevention, it is necessary to understand where insects come from and how they enter a person’s home:

through sewer and water pipes: for this purpose, ectoparasites have hooks, spikes and other devices on their limbs that keep them from falling;
through ventilation holes;
together with new or used furniture: if the previous owner’s apartment or store warehouse was infested with bedbugs;
in a bag, suitcase or along with clothes after a business trip, vacation: parasitic insects are often found in cabins, hostels and economy class hotels.

One of the most common reasons for the invasion of blood-sucking individuals is dysfunctional neighbors. If they do not fight insects, then sooner or later parasites will crawl to you through ventilation, sewers, through window or doorways. This happens when there are too many of them, and the previous volumes of food are no longer enough for them. In a similar way, ectoparasites enter the apartment from the basement, garbage chute and attic.

Not only adult bedbugs, but also larvae with eggs can appear in a living room. For example, if an adult formed a clutch in a bag, clothing or in the wooden joints of a bed, which you then brought into the house.

Bed bugs are often found in hostels, cabins and budget hotels, the owners of which do not monitor sanitary and hygienic conditions. The high risk of blood-sucking ectoparasites is associated with the lack of treatment of premises, irregular and poor-quality cleaning and frequent changes of guests.

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.

Where do bedbugs hide?

One of the main difficulties and prerequisites for how to quickly get rid of bedbugs in an apartment on your own is to find all their habitats. If only part of the nests is treated, then the surviving individuals will restore the previous size of the colony in a short period of time. And you will have to start fighting them from the very beginning.

The main places where blood-sucking ectoparasites hide:

wooden and metal furniture frames;
seams of upholstered furniture;
the wrong side of the mattress;
space behind heating radiators;
dark closet shelves and corners of rooms;
space under the baseboard;
various gaps, cracks and holes in the walls, floor, ceiling;
socket boxes;
behind the carpet and wall paintings.

The higher the number of bedbugs, the more places where they live. If you do not stop their reproduction at the initial stage, it will take a lot of time and effort to destroy them.

But detecting parasites when there are few of them is problematic. They lead a secretive lifestyle and leave their nests only at night. If a person does not have a pronounced reaction to a bedbug bite, then the insect will remain unnoticed for a long time and successfully reproduce.

Favorite places for bedbugs

Bed bugs are unpretentious to their habitats and can live in any convenient place in the apartment. Naturally, they choose places that are located as close to the person as possible. The bug comes out to hunt at night, when a person is fast asleep. At the same time, bedbug bites are practically painless, since the bedbug secretes a special substance.

Nests of these parasites can be found on the headboards of beds, in the crevices of sofas, under the mattress, in sofas, etc. In addition, they can be found in children's toys, ottomans, and pillows. If there are a lot of parasites, and no one is fighting them, colonies of bedbugs can be found behind paintings, behind peeling wallpaper, in electrical appliances, in sockets and switches, in clothes, in computer units, etc. In other words, if you don’t fight them, they can be found almost everywhere.

How can you tell if there are bedbugs in your home?

How to quickly remove bedbugs at home? One of the decisive success factors is to detect the appearance of blood-sucking insects as quickly as possible.

The most important sign of their presence is the appearance of bites on the body. After a bedbug attack, itchy red dots form on your arms, cheek, neck, back or legs within a few hours. The fact is that the insect bites the victim several times and drinks blood until it is completely satisfied. As a result, 4-6 spots appear in a row on the damaged area of skin. If a bug bites at night, you can see the wounds in the morning.

An allergic reaction is provoked by components in saliva. It is observed in 80% of the world's population. But not all people are sensitive to attacks by ectoparasites. Red spots along with insects can go unnoticed for a long time.

How else can you dispel doubts about the appearance of bedbugs?

inspect the underside of the mattress, cabinets, the space behind the radiator and other places where individuals may be hiding;
Carefully inspect the bed linen in the morning - you may notice dark spots from crushed bedbugs.

When there are a lot of insects, a peculiar smell appears in the room. Some compare it to cognac, almonds, and fermented berries. More often it can be felt in the bedroom, where insects are waiting for the victim.

Distinctive features of insects

Scientists have studied about 40 thousand species of bedbugs. And only one of them is an ectoparasite that feeds on the blood of humans and warm-blooded animals. It is a bedbug.

The insect's body is flattened. Its length varies depending on the degree of saturation and can range from 3 to 8.5 mm. Body color also depends on the degree of saturation. It can be either dirty yellow or dark brown. In well-fed insects, the body may turn black.

The bug's mouthparts have a piercing-sucking structure and contain two canals. One channel is intended for taking food, and the other for secreting saliva, which has an anesthetic effect and prevents blood clotting.

Due to the flattened and segmented structure of the body, a hungry bug is very difficult to destroy by mechanical force. A well-fed insect becomes round and motionless, so it can be easily crushed.

How to get rid of bedbugs?

To find the best way and decide how to get rid of bedbugs in an apartment, you need to understand what obstacles may prevent you from achieving your goal. Why is it that not everyone manages to solve the problem on their own?

The physiological and behavioral characteristics of blood-sucking ectoparasites are the main reason for the unsuccessful outcome of the fight. Tactics for exterminating insects should be built taking into account the following information:

high reproduction rate;
high resistance of larvae and eggs to the negative effects of physical and chemical agents;
secretive lifestyle;
small body size;
the ability to crawl into small cracks and move between apartments using utility lines.

Next, we’ll look at how to remove bedbugs at home and with the help of specialists from the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station.

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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.

How to remove bedbugs from an apartment yourself?

You can get rid of bedbugs yourself using improvised means or using household insecticides. The first option is worth trying if single individuals are spotted in the apartment. In other situations, you cannot do without powerful chemical insecticides.

Let's take a closer look at how to remove bedbugs from your apartment yourself quickly and forever. The following recommendations and rules will help solve the problem:

eliminate the source of insects, prevent new individuals from entering the premises;
choose an integrated approach or methods that guarantee the destruction of individuals at any stage of development - adults, larvae, eggs;
observe preventive measures against re-invasion of ectoparasites.

Only an integrated approach can permanently clear your home of bedbugs.

Habitat Features

The main food for representatives of both sexes of insects is blood. Bedbug larvae feed on it. Parasites hunt mainly in the dark. During the day they hide from human eyes. House bugs can be found in dark, warm places. These include:

wall cracks;
peel-off wallpaper;
furniture cavities;
books;
cloth;
bed;
electronics.

If necessary, bedbugs are able to adapt to the lifestyle of the owner. Therefore, it is not uncommon for parasites to attack people during the day.

Bedbugs do not nest like ants. They gather in groups near the source of food - humans. Insects can be parasitic in any room. Sterile cleanliness is not an obstacle to their penetration.

The lifespan of a bedbug is 1 year. In the absence of a food source, they hibernate. Insects can survive in suspended animation for more than 1 year. The appearance of a victim returns activity to the parasites.

The onset of unfavorable conditions forces bedbugs to migrate in search of a better life. In winter they crawl from room to room through ventilation pipes, and in summer - along the walls of houses.

How to get rid of bedbugs using folk remedies?

When and how can you kill bedbugs in an apartment yourself using folk methods? This method can be effective only in the early stages, when there are single insects in the house.

Folk remedies include various herbs, tinctures, decoctions, the use of aromatic lamps, essential oils and other substances that our ancestors used to protect their homes from pests and parasites. Let's look at a few popular recipes:

Regularly treat surfaces with decoctions or essential oils with a scent that repels bed bugs. Insects prefer to avoid areas with the aroma of tansy, wormwood, celandine, wild rosemary and valerian.
Sprinkle dry mustard powder in corners, crevices, along baseboards and under upholstered furniture.
Periodically spray the vents, areas near the bed, closet, radiator, and other places where bedbugs often hide with a vinegar solution.
Sprinkle boric acid powder along baseboards, behind furniture and under the bed.

note

It is not recommended to use kerosene, turpentine and other chemicals with a pungent odor for disinfestation of residential premises.
They are potentially hazardous to health. Folk remedies do not destroy, but only repel insects. Some of them are capable of killing adults, but only with direct contact. This approach will not allow you to remove all insects.

Are unscented products really safe?

A very common misconception is that if a product is odorless, then it is safe, or at least less dangerous than a very smelly one. In fact, it's exactly the opposite.

The smell in the product is not dangerous in itself, and in many drugs its presence is due to special fragrances, which are added to the composition specifically to signal the presence of the drug in the room. And the stronger this smell, the more actively a person takes measures to eliminate the product from the apartment after killing the bedbugs.

Imagine that a very poisonous product will have no odor. The apartment will be treated with it, it will dry on the surfaces here, people will return here and will not carry out any ventilation or cleaning. The substance will rise into the dust, and with it into the respiratory tract, it will fall onto people’s hands and feet, and from the skin on their hands into their mouths. Is it dangerous.

But the same product, but with a strong unpleasant odor, will force people to wash it off the surfaces and ventilate the room after that. And there will be no further contact with him. In fact, this is precisely why many insecticides are made smelly.

For example, on the bottle of the Executioner the presence of fragrance is indicated in the composition:

There is also a nuance that is well known to professional exterminators: as a rule, products based on organophosphorus compounds (for simplicity called FOS) have a strong unpleasant odor, and odorless products are, as a rule, compositions based on pyrethroids. Of the professional products, pyrethroids are more dangerous than FOS. In the quantities and concentrations in which apartments are treated with these insecticides, OPs are low-hazard, but pyrethroid-containing solutions can lead to coughing, shortness of breath and even asphyxia in a person who has inhaled them. Such cases occur regularly, and they happen precisely because the drug has no odor - a person fearlessly enters a room where there is a fog with pyrethroids in the air, breathes it (there is no smell) and begins to suffocate.

In practice, we have had cases where clients who ordered odorless treatment had to be dragged unconscious to the site and pumped out, because they entered the apartment where the exterminator was working without a respirator, collected some forgotten things and did not have time to notice, how they started to panic. And the exterminator himself in the fog (sometimes they mistakenly say “in a smoke screen”) simply did not see such a safety violation.

And if the drug in such an apartment stank, then a person would not just come here, but upon entering, he would plug his nose or put on a respirator.

That is why many manufacturers of means for self-extermination of bedbugs make preparations with a strong unpleasant odor. And those products to which “pleasant” fragrances are added - mint, eucalyptus - have very low concentrations of active ingredients, due to which they cannot harm humans (and often do not harm bedbugs either).

How to get rid of bedbugs at home: insecticides?

In most cases, the best tactic for removing bedbugs at home is the use of insecticides. But the main difficulty is to find a suitable drug.

Insects are highly adaptable. They quickly form defense mechanisms against new aggressive environmental factors. Therefore, treating a room with insecticides does not always help. In addition, chemicals are not capable of destroying eggs, but only affect adults.

How to kill bedbugs using an insecticide? The first step is to find a suitable, truly effective drug. The following rules will help with this:

It is better to give preference to a product with a prolonged action, which contains several active components from different chemical groups and synergistic substances.
Study reviews on the Internet about how to get rid of bedbugs in an apartment, from people who managed to do it themselves. If they mentioned specific insecticides, write down their names.
Look for new developments in pest control. Perhaps experts have managed to find an innovative product or composition to combat bed bugs.

If bedbugs periodically appear and disappear, it is necessary to use alternating schemes of different chemicals. This will reduce the likelihood of resistance developing.

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.

Rules for treating an apartment with insecticides

In order for disinfestation to be effective and safe, a number of rules must be followed. Here are a few recommendations on how to get rid of bedbugs in your home using insecticides:

To prepare the working solution, use the dosages specified in the instructions.
To treat cracks, holes and hard-to-reach places, it is better to use an aerosol with a tip in the form of a thin tube.
When using different insecticides simultaneously, you should first make sure that they do not suppress each other’s action.
It is important to treat all possible insect habitats.
If the drug does not have a prolonged effect, repeated treatment will be required when the eggs and larvae have turned into adults, but have not yet formed a clutch.

The first two weeks should be closely monitored for bed bugs. After treatment, do insects still run around the apartment? It is worth organizing repeated disinfestation.

Using only one control method does not always give the expected result. A more effective way to remove bedbugs from an apartment is a set of preventive, physical and chemical measures.

Separately, it is worth considering the issue of furniture processing. If it is populated with a large number of ectoparasites, it is better to get rid of it than to waste money, time and nerves on pest control.

How to get rid of bedbugs in a sofa if there are only a few of them? For this purpose, insecticides that do not damage upholstery and are designed for treating furniture are suitable. Information can be clarified in the instructions. When a suitable chemical is found:

move the sofa away from the wall and unfold it;
remove all removable parts - pillows, armrests;
empty linen drawers;
handle all items thoroughly;
Vacuum the sofa, paying special attention to seams, joints and recesses;
For greater efficiency, you can treat the upholstery and corners with a steam generator.

We looked at the most popular ways to get rid of bed bugs at home. With their help, you can solve the problem with small and medium numbers of insects. In a difficult situation, it will most likely not be possible to manage on your own.

How can insecticides affect the human body?

Those mechanisms in the bodies of bed bugs that are affected by insecticides are generally identical for both insects and humans.

For example, most drugs for bedbugs disrupt the mechanism of impulse transmission in nervous tissue. It is due to this action that they lead to paralysis in bedbugs and their death.

Nervous tissue in humans is generally structured in the same way as in insects. Therefore, one might assume that bedbug remedies should also lead to paralysis in humans.

However, this does not happen even in cases where, for some reason, a significant amount of insectoacaricide enters the human body. This is due to the fact that in bedbugs and other insects - cockroaches, for example, or fleas, the final effect on the nervous tissue is not the substance that is in the spray bottle, but its derivatives, into which the original insecticide is converted under the influence of various enzymes in the insect body. That is, the insecticide enters the body of the bug, where it is transformed into another substance in the hemolymph, sometimes in the nervous tissue it turns into another, and the final product of such transformations acts on nerve receptors, or synapses, or on neuroglia.

But in the human body such transformations do not occur due to a different set of enzymes and a generally different environment into which the insecticide enters. It’s commonplace that in a bug the toxic substance enters the hemolymph, and in a person it either enters the digestive juice in the stomach or the blood from the lungs. And the compositions of hemolymph, blood and gastric juice are completely different. And the process that takes place in the hemolymph of a bug will not start in human blood.

The simplest example: let’s take malathion (its other name, better known, is karbofos). Once in the body of a bug, it turns into malaoxon on its way to the nervous tissue, which is much more active and toxic to the insect. It is malaoxon that poisons the insect. But in the body of warm-blooded animals, including humans, dogs or cats, malathion is either not converted into malaoxone at all, or is converted slowly, in very small quantities, and the final malaoxone is hydrolyzed much faster. As a result, malathion specifically does not have the same neuroparalytic effect on people as on bedbugs.

The situation is approximately similar with other insecticides. Some do not transform into highly toxic substances, while others do, but very slowly. Only a few of them affect people in the same way as they do insects.

But at the same time, almost all insecticides in large quantities are toxic to humans. It doesn’t matter whether they act on the human body in the same way as on the body of a bug, or lead to poisoning through a different mechanism, but they have a toxic effect. Therefore, if you drink a liter of Karbofos, you can be seriously poisoned, and if you inhale an aerosol with lambda-cyhalothrin, you can suffocate.

Most insecticides can cause an allergic reaction upon contact with the skin, or irritation and itching upon contact with mucous membranes (for example, in the eyes). However, the likelihood of such an allergy in an individual person is the same as when working, for example, with household detergents or food products. That is, insecticides are no more allergenic than toilet gel or natural spices.

All this means that in fact the danger lies not in the product, but in its quantity. We remember that in certain quantities a medicine can turn into poison. And in some quantities the insecticide is harmless, but in large quantities it is already dangerous.

All this is relevant for insecticides that are used in the form of a liquid solution. Moreover, their danger manifests itself only in such a liquid state. When these solutions dry on surfaces, they do not pose a danger to humans even if they accidentally come into contact with such a treated surface.

That is why properly produced insecticides for home use contain such concentrations of active substances that will lead to the destruction of bedbugs, but will not allow them to poison a person even if there are occasional minor errors in their use on the part of an inexperienced handler. At the same time, as we remember, the means vary in their danger to humans. And among them there are those that need to be used very carefully, and there are those that even with a strong desire cannot be poisoned.

Therefore, for clarity, you need to understand the danger or safety of the most common household means for killing bedbugs.

How to quickly get rid of bedbugs: Sanitary and Epidemiological Station

If you have tried all the methods, but the insects do not want to leave the apartment, and you do not know how to get rid of bedbugs forever, contact the sanitary service for help. Professional methods are the most effective means of combating parasitic insects and pests.

To develop tactics for dealing with bedbugs in an apartment, sanitary service specialists inspect the premises and estimate the approximate number of parasites. Depending on the complexity of the situation, methods of struggle are chosen - soft or more aggressive.

What to do if self-processing does not bring results

If you have treated the room, but after some time the bugs return, then the reasons for this may be the following:

All insect nests were not found and treated;
processing and the subsequent period after it were carried out in violation of technology;
errors in solution dilution and excessively low concentration of active ingredients;
immunity of bedbugs to the selected active agent (this happens if they were poisoned earlier and they managed to develop immunity);
insects come, for example, from neighbors. It is necessary to poison their main habitat.

If unsuccessful, it is important to draw conclusions and repeat the procedure again more carefully. It is advisable to change the drug and be more strict in its dosage.

You can be guaranteed to get rid of bedbugs by inviting specialists from the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station service. Professional exterminators:

know where to look for parasite nests;
use highly effective products;
have professional equipment;
They provide a guarantee for the work performed.

Bedbugs are a dangerous neighbor for humans, carriers of a number of serious diseases and infections. If a parasite is discovered in an apartment or residential building, you must quickly take action, carry out general cleaning and treatment yourself, or invite a professional team.

Cold and hot fog

Treatment with cold or hot fog is a popular professional method for effectively removing bedbugs. The key advantage of the approach is the spraying of the insecticide in the form of tiny particles, the diameter of which does not exceed 70 microns. This allows active chemical components to easily penetrate into the cracks and pores where ectoparasites hide. It is impossible to achieve a similar effect manually.

The second important factor that increases the chances of success is the use of a professional certified drug with a prolonged effect. It acts not only at the moment of spraying, but also continues to destroy insects for several weeks after treatment.

How to remove bedbugs using fog treatment?

Contact the health service for help.
Prepare the apartment for disinfestation: carry out wet cleaning, get rid of garbage and rubbish, move furniture away from the walls and follow other recommendations given by the SES staff.
Wait for the exterminator to arrive. There should be no people or pets in the apartment during fogging.
After disinsection, ventilate the room and wipe contact surfaces with detergent - door handles, plumbing fixtures, countertops.

After about 10-14 days, you can judge how effective the fog treatment was. SES employees will carry out repeated disinfestation if it was not possible to destroy all the insects the first time and tell you what to do to prevent bedbugs from appearing again.

Cold fog is used for residential areas. Hot fog treatment is more relevant for non-residential premises. The feasibility and safety of using the method must be discussed with a SES employee.

Features of reproduction

At the moment of mating, the bug pierces the female’s genitals, injecting sperm into her. A fertilized female, even in the absence of a male individual, is capable of laying eggs every day throughout her life. Over the entire period of its existence, the female individual lays up to 500 eggs.

The egg hatches into a larva that goes hunting. After drinking a full portion of blood, the larva molts, forming into a nymph. The insect then goes hunting again, drinks blood and molts, reaching sexual maturity. The entire development cycle of the insect does not exceed 40 days. Unfavorable conditions increase the development period to 100 days.

What to do with things that cannot be treated with insecticides?

Treatment with chemicals is not acceptable for all things. For example, insecticides should not be used to kill insects that hide in clothing and bedding. Some home furnishings, electronics and household appliances may break due to contact with chemicals.

How to kill bedbugs in textiles? To do this you need:

wash all clothes and bedding in a washing machine at +60 degrees or higher;
when things are dry, iron them with an iron with steam or a steam generator;
It is better to take large items, such as pillows, mattresses, blankets, to a professional dry cleaner or to a disinfection chamber.

This set of measures will allow you to kill larvae and adults and get rid of eggs on textiles.

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.

Prevention of bedbugs

Anyone who has experienced firsthand how difficult it is to get rid of bed bugs strives to prevent their re-invasion. To do this you need:

Organize a protective barrier: install grilles or meshes on the ventilation openings, treat window and door openings, as well as sewer and drainage pipes with an insecticide with a prolonged effect.
After a vacation or business trip, immediately wash your clothes and bags at a temperature of +60 degrees, and carefully inspect your suitcases for bedbugs.
When purchasing furniture, check for insects.

If you don’t know what to do and how to get rid of bedbugs in your apartment, seek help from the Dez Group sanitary service staff, who have been helping citizens and businesses fight parasitic insects and pests since 2014. You can contact a company consultant by phone listed on the website.

Dusts, powders, crayons

Poison for bedbugs
Poison for bedbugs based on strong contact insecticides. Dusts do not lose their properties for a long time - about 2 months. Only a humid environment reduces effectiveness.

The rate of death of house bugs depends on the concentration of the poison that enters the body. On average, you have to wait about a week for results. The principle of a chain reaction operates. The soiled insect crawls into the nest and infects other relatives. Over time, the entire population of parasites becomes infected, and poison accumulates around the eggs.

Executioner

Probably the most popular drug now is Executioner. There are three options on the market:

German Executioner;
Pseudo-German in ampoules and bottles, with the name in German, but descriptions and instructions in Russian;
Russian Executioner.

We poisoned bedbugs in apartments in which we had previously tried to exterminate them with all these Executioners separately, and in general there is no difference in effectiveness between them. No matter what Executioner a person uses, exterminators still have to exterminate the bedbugs.

We tested the Russian-made Executioner on bedbugs. Of all the products available in retail sales, it is the fastest acting. It kills bedbugs when directly sprayed in 8.5 minutes, and when moving them over a surface on which the Executioner’s working solution has dried - in 2.5 hours. It's fast. Other non-professional means poison bedbugs more slowly.

According to our observations, there is no difference between the speed of action and effectiveness of the Russian and German Executioner. Despite the fact that the German preparation contains a mixture of two insecticides of different groups - fenthion (an organophosphorus compound) and cypermethrin (pyrethroid), while the Russian one contains only fenthion. Most likely, cypermethrin does not enhance or accelerate the action of fenthion, but only ensures that the product will poison bedbugs if they are resistant to fenthion itself. But the Russian Executioner is cheaper.

The Executioner has a significant drawback for many people: it has a strong unpleasant odor. This smell disappears after the product dries and the room is ventilated for 2-3 hours, but during the treatment itself the apartment smells strongly.

Plus, in Moscow there are already known cases of bed bugs being resistant to fenthion. There is documentary evidence of the detection of fenthion-resistant bedbugs in several old Moscow hospitals. We also have reason to believe that some DisinCity clients in Moscow and St. Petersburg, whose exterminators poisoned bedbugs after they were independently treated by the Executioner, did not remove the bedbugs in the apartment after the persecution by the Executioner precisely because of their resistance to this product.

In any case, the likelihood that the bedbugs specifically in your apartment are resistant to Executioner is very small - it does not exceed tenths of a percent. And in any case, it is lower than the probability that you will not remove bedbugs simply because you do not know the nuances of such removal.

Be that as it may, exterminators often treat apartments in which people have not been able to exterminate bed bugs with the Executioner on their own. This means that even the efficiency and speed of the Executioner does not guarantee the removal of bedbugs if the handler lacks experience and special knowledge.