The question of choosing a remedy for bedbugs worries everyone who has had the misfortune of encountering these parasites. In just a couple of weeks, a room infested with bedbugs becomes uninhabitable - the insects bite people at night and cause an unpleasant odor. Many people choose heat treatment of the room to remove pests - this is one of the most effective methods. However, the equipment for such disinsection is very bulky and expensive, so heat treatment remains not the best option for many.
Another proven method of removing insects is conventional chemical disinfestation. It consists of spraying all corners of the infected room with an insecticide solution. For all its effectiveness, chemical treatment has one drawback - if it is carried out incorrectly, it will not only not produce results, but can also cause poisoning of one of the household or pets. In addition, even some “professional” pest control services treat contaminated premises with outdated insecticides for reasons of economy. They are not only very toxic, but also have a pungent, unpleasant odor that lingers in the house for a long time.
Another effective way is to freeze bedbugs. However, it can only be used in winter, in private homes or country houses where there is no central heating.
Despite the effectiveness of the above methods, many abandon them due to certain shortcomings. This leads people to resort to what is called "gassing". However, the fact is that there is no such thing as “bedbug gas” - it is rather a popular name for a number of pest control methods.
In what cases should you call the SES to bait bedbugs?
Before the exterminators arrive, the apartment must be prepared.
SES stands for “sanitary and epidemiological service” or “sanitary and epidemiological station.” This is a special government organization that must monitor the epidemiological situation in the city. Its tasks include the destruction of bed bugs, cockroaches, fleas, rodents and other pests.
How to call the SES to exterminate bedbugs? To do this, you need to leave a request for a call. Since SES is a government organization, consideration of the application and work may take a long time.
Important! There are also private pest control companies with similar names. They use the same means as the civil service.
The SES must be called immediately after detection of bites or bedbugs themselves. The latter are carriers of many diseases; allergies can develop due to insect bites, and the pests themselves can easily move to other apartments, infecting them too.
How much it costs to call the SES to poison bedbugs depends on the size of the home, the level of infestation and the specific company. The exact cost will be announced after inspection by a professional.
How to call the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station?
And finally, about the most difficult thing. Calling the SES to remove bedbugs is quite a difficult task. Although the responsibilities of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station include extermination measures against bedbugs, the service itself and its specialists are constantly very busy with work, and when private individuals apply for sanitation, they are usually redirected to other disinfestation services (private firms).
However, it is still possible to get the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station to visit a residential building or apartment.
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First you need to talk to your neighbors and find out if anyone has a similar problem. As a rule, if more than two apartments in an apartment building are infested with bedbugs, then the SES will definitely come to check the situation. Therefore, when calling the station, you should definitely report that several apartments are infested at once, and also add that one of the residents has a severe allergy to bedbug bites (if this is true).
It would be even more effective to contact the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station with a complaint about unclean neighbors or businesses near residential buildings that are a source of bedbugs and do not take measures to exterminate them. The fight against such spreaders of parasites is one of the main tasks of the SES, and service specialists respond to such calls very quickly.
Let us note once again that we are talking about SES, which is a state organization, and not about small companies with similar names.
Preparing the apartment for processing
Preparation
Before the arrival of specialists and the start of sanitary treatment of the room from bedbugs, it is necessary to prepare the place:
- Place all food, clothing, dishes and personal items in tightly closed boxes or bags to prevent poison from getting on them;
- Move the furniture to the center of the room and cover it with a thick cloth, which can then be thrown away;
- Clear passages for specialists to walls, corners, and places where pests accumulate;
- Remove all plants from the premises, remove pets and leave the whole family for a few hours.
Important! Since bed bugs die within 2-4 weeks after pest control, they may continue to bite for a while.
What means does the SES use against bedbugs?
These poisons are extremely dangerous, they can only be used by specialists.
How do the sanitary and epidemiological station poison bedbugs? Its employees have several options of poisons for bedbugs and other pests. These are inexpensive but extremely effective tools that can only be used by specialists. These include:
- "Karbofos": it has been known since the times of the USSR. This is an inexpensive but good product, which has several significant disadvantages: the drug has an incredibly persistent and unpleasant odor that lasts for several months. Additionally, due to its popularity in the past, many bed bugs today have become immune to it.
- "Fufanon": an insecticide similar to karbofos, they have the same active substance. However, the smell of fufanon is less persistent and unpleasant, and its effectiveness is slightly higher. This substance is often used in remote regions with low funding.
- “Effective Ultra”: belongs to hazard class 4 - low dangerous (most poisons have class 3 - moderately dangerous). The product is highly effective, has no unpleasant odor and has a long-lasting protective effect. The effectiveness of the poison is associated with the presence of several active ingredients: if one poison does not affect the bedbugs, another will help. Unfortunately, due to the high price, “Effective Ultra” is often purchased by non-governmental exterminators.
Hot mist produces smaller droplets than cold mist
- "Extermin": a microcapsule product that appeared not so long ago. It is highly efficient, popular with private customers: it does the job well and is quite cheap. It is often used in public and private SES. However, the smell problem also affected him.
- "Chlorpyrimark": similar in composition and effect to "Tetrix", but it contains flavorings that help a little to cope with the unpleasant odor.
- “Biorin”: often used by exterminators, sprayed using hot or cold fog technology. With its help, you can destroy a colony of bedbugs or ants in one go.
SES treats apartments against bedbugs using the hot or cold fog method. Both options are a poisonous aqueous gas solution that is sprayed into the air. The droplets are small, they easily penetrate into cracks and hard-to-reach places.
Both methods have some important features:
- Cold fog has an air temperature, hot fog - about +60 degrees;
- Drops obtained from hot fog spraying are several times smaller and are more effective in killing parasites;
- Cold fog is not visible, hot fog is white or grayish in color and is easier to control.
Description of blood-sucking bugs
How do bedbugs differ from fleas and other pests? Fleas are jumping and few in number. For humans, they appear as painfully biting black dots that suddenly disappear from the body. Mosquitoes and mosquitoes are visible to our eyes and are generally familiar. We won't talk about them. Here we have an arthropod insect. In fact, there are many bedbugs in the world, more than 800 varieties. People only come across one - Cimex lectularius.
- What do they like to eat? Exclusively blood. These are not cockroaches - you can’t lure them with a pie;
- What time does it attack? During the day you are unlikely to see “long-awaited neighbors”, because they prefer the interval between 3 and 7 am;
- How often does a bug drink blood? Bites appear daily, but 1 individual feeds once a week. Count the tracks and multiply by 7 - you get the approximate number of creatures in the housing at the moment;
- At what speed does a bedbug reproduce? 5 eggs are laid per day. Considering that the “favorites” of sanitary and epidemiological station workers can live up to 14 months, it turns out that in 365 days one individual produces up to 2,000 new creatures, and 10 already gives birth to 20 thousand.
As you can see, disinfestation is extremely necessary in the early stages, as the situation is worsening at a catastrophic speed. Fortunately, it doesn’t matter how infested the house is - if you poison bedbugs with gas, the result will still be 100%, but the means at hand may no longer help. The methods will be described below. Now let's move on to another category of creatures.
Know: bedbugs are so small and agile that the human skin does not feel their movement at all.
Procedure for removing parasites
Repeated treatment differs from the first only in the use of a different poison.
Treatment against bedbugs occurs in several stages:
- The apartment is inspected by specialists, and a poisoning option is selected. Residents are told in detail about the procedure for preparing the premises and how the work will be carried out, how long they cannot stay in the apartment after disinfection from bedbugs, and they calculate how much it costs to disinfect the apartment.
- The apartment is being prepared for treatment against bedbugs, and the residents are leaving.
- Specialists clean the rooms for several hours and then ventilate them.
- If it was not possible to completely destroy the parasites the first time, the procedure is repeated, but a different poison is used.
- Cleaning after disinfestation should include disinfection and wet cleaning; it is also necessary to disinfect surfaces that came into contact with the poison.
Important! Bedbugs adapt well to the effects of poison; surviving individuals will develop immunity to the poison used, and therefore re-treatment is carried out with a different agent.
Processing efficiency
For some time after disinfestation, bedbugs may continue to bite.
The service uses extremely powerful poisons to combat parasites - after the procedure, a small percentage of insects survive. If the bedbugs return, the service will come for extermination a second time, but with a different poison.
It is important to remember that in the first few days it may seem that the treatment did not work or that there are more insects. In fact, this is not so: bedbugs that are immediately exposed to a lethal dose die in the first half hour, while the rest die within a few days. Poisoning eggs and newly hatched bedbugs takes about a month. In other words, you can evaluate the result of the work only after a month.
Dying insects may crawl out, making it appear that there are more of them.
Important! Treatment of an apartment from bedbugs and other insects by specialists from the sanitary and epidemiological station is carried out in several steps. First, the employees evaluate the future work and explain the subtleties to the owners. Afterwards, the owners prepare the room and leave so as not to suffer from the poison. Thanks to the use of special techniques and highly effective poisons, almost all parasites die at once.
How I got rid of bedbugs
The bedbugs attacked us when the neighbors made repairs. Crowds of refugees poured towards us. Reviews of bedbugs on the Internet promised many years of exhausting war with the use of chemical weapons. In fact, I didn’t have to try folk remedies, meanwhile the situation was getting worse, I had to make serious efforts not to itch in public places. However, for a long time we could not decide to call the SES: we were frightened by the need to breathe in the fumes of pesticides after treatment. I set up a tent in the middle of the room and my wife, son and I slept in it, hoping for a mosquito net. Small bugs crawled through the mesh, large ones attacked the cat. When the new, light wallpaper was covered with black products from the processing of our blood, and the population of bedbugs was already comparable to the population of the city of Mytishchi, we still called the SES. I read in a book about cancer that mixing pesticides greatly enhances their effect, which is extremely dangerous for humans, so I asked the exterminator if he mixes drugs to treat an apartment. He said that according to sanitary standards it is impossible to mix, but everyone mixes, “it’s safer that way.” Naturally, after all, all companies promise free re-treatment if there is no result, and exterminators do not want to do the same job twice. The house was still treated, after treatment I, according to the exterminator’s recommendation, slept in a smelly apartment, playing the role of bait for bedbugs, which were destined to poison me on the way. A few weeks later, when my bronchitis went away and my home was finally more or less ventilated, the bedbugs returned. We weren't ready to be treated with pesticides again, so we bought a professional steamer. It turned out that after steam treatment, adult bedbugs die, but after a few days new ones hatch: the bedbugs lay eggs in places inaccessible to the steamer. I continued to research non-chemical methods for killing bedbugs and came across Hector, a silica-based product. This is a powder, like sand, which, according to the manufacturer, sticks to the chitinous cover of insects, causing them to die from dehydration. The apartment began to resemble a beach, but the bedbugs did not die. I was already seriously thinking about bringing a cylinder of liquid nitrogen into the apartment, and then I remembered that Polysorb is also silicon dioxide and it feels not like sand, but like snow, and sticks to surfaces much better. I threw a couple of bugs that came to hand into a glass with Polysorb, they immediately got stuck, after a few minutes they were covered with white powder and could not move, after a few hours I crushed two completely dry shells with a crunch. Then I once again treated the beds, cabinets, walls, floors and baseboards with a steamer, then covered the areas of the apartment with polysorb that young bugs cross before making their first bite. No more bugs appeared...
