Ways to destroy linen bugs at home

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Linen bugs are parasitic insects that feed on human blood. Insect bites leave red, swollen spots on the hands and feet that itch a lot. Bedbugs choose a sleeping person or animal as a victim. In this article, you will learn how to get rid of bedbugs at home, what remedies to use. Why can bedbugs dream at all?

The appearance of bedbugs

These blood-sucking insects are very small in size: from 3 to 8 mm. Externally, bed bugs may differ from other counterparts, since at different stages of development, their body shape and color change. After saturation with blood, the pest greatly increases in size and takes on a purple hue. The body of the parasite in a hungry state is flattened. His oral apparatus is presented in the form of a small proboscis, which carries out a piercing-sucking function.

Bed bugs do not look very attractive, they lack wings, so they are less vulnerable to destruction. Parasites move on 3 pairs of paws. An insect that has drunk blood can be easily killed, and when it is hungry, it is already problematic to do this.

Bed bugs reproduce very quickly.

These pests prefer to inhabit bedding, wardrobes, mattresses, pillows and blankets. Such insects multiply at lightning speed, capturing vast territories throughout the apartment in just a few weeks. Therefore, it is so important to know how to get rid of bed bugs at home.

The female is capable of laying 300-500 eggs for the entire period of her life. The larva becomes an adult parasite in just a month. Such insects usually settle in warm, inaccessible and dark places, organizing large colonies.

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Bites of linen bugs - why are they dangerous to humans?

Insects are dangerous with their bites, after which a person experiences severe itching. Children especially suffer from this, because they have delicate and thin skin.

People who are prone to allergies may experience blistering, a dangerous reaction on the body, leaving scars on the surface of the skin. Bites should not be scratched strongly, because inflammation can occur that fester. If you have a headache, nausea and high fever after bites, you need to call a doctor or go to the hospital.

To get rid of itching after a bite, you should make compresses from black or green tea, wipe the skin with calendula tincture or hydrogen peroxide. You can also use ointments that have a healing effect and help heal the bite site:

• Fenistil;
• "Bepanten";
• "Star";
• Afloderm, etc.

If the residents do not remove parasites for a long time, then the child will develop bites on the body, and iron-deficiency anemia may occur due to frequent bites.

As for diseases, bed bugs cannot transmit them to people. Even if an insect bites a person infected with an immunodeficiency virus, he will not be able to transmit it to another, since the particles of the disease do not accumulate in the body of the parasite and are excreted along with its feces.

Infection methods

In most cases, people themselves bring bloodsuckers to their homes.To prevent this, it is necessary to inspect things well when traveling to other countries or staying on trains, cheap hotels, places with unfavorable sanitary conditions. It should be remembered that such pests can withstand long journeys.

In apartment buildings, bugs can often move through ventilation from other apartments.

Bed bugs also enter an apartment or house through ventilation holes, windows and doors. If neighbors have these pests, it is imperative to protect your home from them by spreading means against linen bugs in hoods and near the entrance openings.

How to prevent bedbugs from appearing again?

To prevent the appearance of bloodsuckers in the apartment, it is necessary to take preventive measures.

1. While on a trip, you must carefully check the bed in the hotel for the presence of bed bugs in it.
2. Upon arrival home, you need to carefully check your bags to ensure that bedbugs do not enter your personal belongings.
3. When buying used furniture, you also need to check it carefully, paying particular attention to all crevices and recesses.
4. The bedroom must be kept clean, it must not be cluttered with rubbish.

Danger to adults

The larvae of blood-sucking insects are light in color, so they are difficult to notice. Bed parasites suck up to 7 ml of blood in one meal. During the night, they leave many marks on the human body. The active period of bedbugs is from 3 to 6 in the morning, and bites may not be noticed immediately, since the saliva of parasites is able to anesthetize the puncture site on the body. After their attack, a characteristic "path" remains, because they move along the skin in search of blood vessels.

Even after being bitten by linen bugs, you can find blood stains on bed linen or clothes. In addition, when most of the home is infected, black dots appear on the white sheets. Small parasites prefer to hunt at night, during the day they are almost impossible to notice.

Bedbug bites are arranged in a path, as bedbugs look for blood vessels

The puncture area after a bite remains reddened, inflamed and hard for a long time. Bed bugs are not carriers of various diseases, but they cause allergies in some people, and constant bites can cause a lack of iron in the body. Quite often, after their attack, the following symptoms appear:

• nausea;
• dizziness;
• bouts of vomiting;
• swollen lymph nodes.

Sleeping equipment

When bed bugs are found, say - in the bedroom, people usually try to keep away from this sleeping place, preferring to spend the night in the living room or some other room. Do not do this, as staying in your own bed will reduce the risk of bedbugs spreading throughout the house. If a person moves to another room, then the bugs will definitely follow. In this case, there is a great chance to breed bed bugs in different rooms.

Instead, make your bed a bed bug-free place to sleep. This will be the first step in the systematic destruction of bedbugs in your apartment.

How to kill bed bugs on a sleeping mattress

The first and not the easiest task is to completely cleanse living parasites and their eggs from the sleeping mattress in the infected room. It must be emphasized right away that all actions for processing the mattress, and other things, must be carried out without leaving the room with parasites, since there is a high probability of physical spreading of insects to other rooms.

First of all, it is advisable to vacuum the mattress. This should be done as carefully as possible, it is more convenient to use the attachment without a brush. It is better to install a disposable garbage bag. After each vacuuming, it will need to be disposed of.With a nozzle you need to "look" into each seam of the mattress, behind each patch, walk along each scar. All actions should be repeated 3-4 times.

After such a thorough treatment, the mattress must be thoroughly sprayed with any available chemicals. The most effective are drugs that contain permethrins. These are active insecticides derived from chrysanthemum flowers. Despite the high toxicity against insects, permethrins are safe for humans, and products based on them are almost odorless. In addition, the chemicals are deadly for bedbug eggs, which may not have entered the vacuum cleaner.

After a couple of hours, the effect of the drug will already be noticeable. Despite the fact that the vacuum cleaner, it would seem, has collected all possible parasites, it is surprising where so many corpses of bedbugs came from, as a rule, of small sizes. Of course, they are not taken out of the air, anyway, they were not hooked with a vacuum cleaner behind any micro-folds.

After the exposure indicated on the label of the product, you need to re-arm yourself with a vacuum cleaner and again process everything with it, now collecting the corpses of insects.

How to deal with bed bugs - mattress protection

Leaving the mattress in the treated state overnight is not worth it, because at night the bugs will fill it up again and all the activities will have to be repeated again. Also, you cannot take the mattress to another room, hoping for the quality of its processing. Only time can guarantee one hundred percent absence of bedbugs. If, three months after the total destruction of the parasites, the invasion has not resumed in the apartment, then the work has been done wonderfully well. On the mattress, eggs of parasites and their young individuals - nymphs, who will gladly occupy new apartments, can remain.

The best and only option to protect your mattress the next night is to tuck it in protective covers against the penetration of bedbugs. We are talking about special covers designed for only one purpose - to prevent the penetration of parasites into the unevenness of the mattress. In addition, some models of such covers are impregnated with a solution to repel parasites.

Bed treatment

Treatment of the bed base is the next step that you need to have time to do on the same daylight hours. The sequence of action is similar to the processing of a mattress - first you need to thoroughly vacuum every nook and cranny, every crack, then treat it with chemistry, and then thoroughly vacuum it all over again. Of course, all actions should be carried out both from the top of the bed and from below, for this the base of the bed must be placed on its side.

Lucky for those owners who own a wooden, plastic or any other solid bed base. People who sleep on the couch, which also has a place to store things, will have much more problems. However, there is nowhere to go - the soft base of the sofa is processed similarly to the mattress, only there are no covers for each model of the sofa. Therefore, it makes sense to stock up in advance with a dense, soft, lint-free fabric of the appropriate footage in order to cover all the fabric surfaces of the sofa.

Setting up defense around the perimeter of the berth

Now you can exhale and brew a cup of coffee, but before going to bed, you need to take a number of steps to further prevent bedbugs from entering the sleeping place. There are several fairly effective tools for this.

The use of special traps for bedbugs. These things are specially made as a temporary, but very effective means of protection for just such cases. The Chinese industry produces quite a few means of such protection, but it is better to use domestic or American traps. Of the latter, The Climbup ™ Bed bug Interceptor and BlackOut BedBug Detector have proven themselves very well.Of course, you cannot buy them in the hardware store opposite, but there are many online stores where these funds can be purchased, both in Russia and on American sites.

Use of special adhesive tapes. These products are not durable, but the first 2-3 nights work fine. The meaning of the action is extremely simple - the bugs, trying to crawl through such a tape, stick to it, and stay there. It is advisable to glue with such a tape only hard surfaces, since then traces of glue remain on the fabric, although it all depends on the quality of the manufacturer.

The best places to tape are in the perimeter of the floor around the bed and its legs. To completely protect yourself, you can glue the sides of the bed.

So, the first day of protecting your bedroom from bedbugs is over. This will be the first night in the past few days to enjoy a restful, bite-free sleep. However, do not relax - the hardest work is yet to come. We will consider the sequence of its algorithms in the next article - "Linen bugs - how to get rid of at home."

Harm to babies

Bedbug bites are especially dangerous for children. After all, they do not understand that it is not worth combing the puncture sites until scratches appear. Through them, an infection can enter the baby's blood, causing the development of serious pathologies. A similar situation sometimes happens with adults.

Children combing bug bites, which can lead to infection in open wounds

With multiple bites, the first step is to rinse the child's wound with warm water. This procedure will help relieve severe itching. Then you should show it to the doctor so that he can prescribe an effective treatment.

Differences between bedbugs and other insects in the house

Males feed on blood, although in some insect species only females feed on blood in order to be able to reproduce.

Bed bugs are very often confused by name with dust mites. Dust mites are very small and cannot bite through human skin; they live in pillows and other parts of furniture. They feed on microscopic particles of the skin that falls from our body. It is unlikely that you will be able to see a dust mite with the naked eye, but it still brings harm: from the products of its vital activity, a person can develop an allergy, which is confirmed by analyzes, and is written in the diagnosis “dust mite allergy”.

Dust mite under the microscope

Unlike ants, bugs do not build nests and do not form colonies; they prefer to randomly accumulate near a food source, usually near a place where a warm-blooded living creature lodges. Ants do not feed on human blood, but can only bite, defending themselves.

Unlike fleas, bugs are larger and cannot jump. Traces of their vital activity are easier to detect than to understand that fleas are in the apartment. Flea bite gray is most common on the legs, in contrast to bed bug marks, which can also be strewn across the upper body.

The main symptoms of infection

Many factors indicate the appearance of bed bugs in the house, but people, as a rule, do not pay enough attention to them. When an apartment is infected, you can find:

1. Spots of blood. During an attack, insects inject a special secret that prevents it from curling up. After eating, she continues to shower, staining the linen. An overeating bug is easy to destroy by crushing it with your hand. As a result, dead parasites and bloody spots remain on the sheet. Moreover, black spots can be seen on the bed - skins after molting or excrement.
2. Bad smell. Bed pests have scent glands that become active when threatened. So they still inform other individuals about the food source during the mating season. Bedbugs usually emit the aroma of nutmeg, rotten raspberries, and also cheap cognac.It will not be possible to remove the smell, it will only intensify every day.

   
   Bed bugs give off a very unpleasant odor, which will only get worse over time.

3. Bed bug bites look like mosquitoes. Red traces have baked blood in the center. On the epidermis, after the attack of pests, peculiar "paths" appear. Numerous bites usually coalesce into one large patch.
4. Detection of red marks on the body. The favorite spots for bedbugs are the neck, back, arms, shoulders and legs. The puncture sites are very itchy.

In many cases, these symptoms disappear on their own within 7 days. To relieve discomfort, use laundry soap, baking soda or alcohol tinctures. If at least one symptom of infection appears, you need to carefully examine the bed and the entire room. Insect nests are most often found in the mattress, bed, carpets, interior items, and also on the back of furniture.

Food in the life of these pests plays a very important role. They drink blood once a week, at one time the insect is able to suck out about 8 ml of liquid. The larvae feed almost every day.

What are these insects and where do they come from

What bed bugs look like can be seen in many photos on the Internet or in books. The blood-sucking individual has an oval body shape with a length of about eight millimeters. The size and color of the unwanted guest is determined by his degree of saturation. The color palette can start with a light brown and end with a brown tint. After "eating" the insect takes on a burgundy or black color.

Many people wonder where the pests came from in the house, where order is regularly maintained, waste is thrown away on time. But these insects do not care whether the home is dirty or clean. They will easily run over to you from neighbors, or come with new things or furniture.

It is not easy to understand the reasons for the appearance of bloodsuckers in a home, because the source of infection includes not only adults, but their eggs and larvae.

Pest Invasion Routes:

• Unpleasant neighbors can be brought in bags or on clothes by guests, owners, builders (if the apartment is being renovated);
• Insects tend to "migrate" from another apartment through ventilation ducts, through a gap in baseboards or walls;
• Pets walking outside can carry parasites on the coat;
• When purchasing furniture and clothing "hand-held". Such things can be contaminated. Even buying new furniture will not give a 100% guarantee that there will be no bloodsuckers;
• If pest control is carried out in neighboring housing, the insects will look for a new habitat;
• If the basement is in poor condition (rodents, stray animals, dampness).

When people move into purchased but not new housing, which seems to be quite clean, they often ask the question: where do bed bugs come from in an apartment? Unwanted guests go into hibernation for a long time, if there is no "food", and when new owners move into the house they become more active.

Preparing rooms for processing

Before getting rid of bed bugs, all rooms should be prepared for the procedure... It is necessary to remove these unpleasant insects in a comprehensive manner. Bedding and other items contaminated with adults and eggs should preferably be taken to a dry cleaner. Professional cleaning of products will help to destroy all parasites without harm to fabrics.

It is recommended to use a vacuum cleaner before removing bed bugs. With this device, it is necessary to process all the joints of wallpaper, sofas, mattresses and other secluded places where pests and their eggs can live. Even before using folk remedies or insecticides, you should walk with a steam generator over carpets, corners of beds, cabinets and upholstered furniture. Most of these small insects will die under the influence of heat. As a result, only one treatment of premises with chemical agents will be enough.

Before starting treatment, it is advisable to vacuum all places where bugs and their eggs may be

In winter, bedbug freezing can be performed. When it's freezing outside, it is enough to open all the windows in an apartment or house for a few hours. Many insects will die due to the cold. Among other things, it is worth carrying out a general cleaning of the premises with the use of folk remedies for the destruction of parasites. This will increase the chances of getting rid of them completely.

After all these manipulations, living rooms must be treated with chemicals. Then a secondary general cleaning is carried out to remove dead individuals. Sometimes, to achieve maximum results, you have to perform such procedures several times.

After preliminary preparation of the premises, you need to start chemical treatment

Heat treatment

Bedbugs from other insects - bloodsuckers living in a human dwelling, are distinguished by the fact that they can easily tolerate low temperatures down to -20⁰C below zero.

In winter, on one of the frosty days, you can take some pieces of furniture outside to expose them to low temperatures. But this does not guarantee that bed bugs will not reappear in the apartment after a while.

You can kill insects in a shorter time by heating. However, it is important to remember here that not all furniture in an apartment can withstand exposure to high temperatures. But most of the furniture and insect sites can be treated with steam. This method is considered the most effective today. But such work is carried out only by employees of specialized services who have all the professional equipment necessary for this.

As a result of heat treatment, the eggs of linen bugs, which are resistant to other methods of exterminating insects, even die.

Insecticide use

When dealing with linen bugs using chemicals, it is imperative to take precautions. When processing a home, you need to protect the respiratory system with a respirator or gauze bandage, and your hands with rubber gloves: the toxic substances in these preparations have a detrimental effect not only on pests, but also on people.

Protective clothing must be worn to prevent chemicals from spilling onto exposed areas of the body. It is also better to cover your head with a cap. After cleaning the home, wash your face and hands well with soapy water, change clothes and go out into the fresh air.

Suspension "Get" is odorless and well exterminates bedbugs in the house

Today, a huge number of different insecticides for bed bugs are sold. Chemicals are produced in the form of special solutions, gels, emulsions and sprays. The following tools will help to remove linen bugs:

• odorless suspension "Get";
• liquid "Forsyth", which can cause severe poisoning in humans;
• aerosol "Reid";
• the drug "Executioner" with a specific aroma, but high efficiency;
• means "Carbozol" and others.

It is necessary to carefully approach the choice of insecticides for self-breeding of insects. It should be remembered that chemicals used for a long time may not bring the desired result, since parasites may gradually develop immunity to them.
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Insecticidal preparations for the fight against bedbugs

Known drugs produced both in liquid and powder form are:

1. Karbofos. The tool is quite simple for household use. The powder must be scattered in places where parasites accumulate, and carefully treat furniture, baseboards and beds with a pre-diluted liquid.
2. The second most popular tool is the Executioner. Used for a one-time treatment of the home.To do this, you need to dilute the powder in a small amount of water according to the instructions and treat all surfaces and hard-to-reach cracks with a spray gun.
3. The Get drug works very effectively. It has a distinctive feature - an enhanced effect. An infected bug, going to its relatives, simultaneously infects several more individuals.

Many have noted the effective damaging properties of the drugs Klopomor, Kombat, Karbozol, Tetrix, Chlorofos.

When using these products on your own, do not neglect the instructions for use. Many of the drugs are toxic and hazardous to humans.

Folk methods of destruction

There are a huge number of tools that will help exterminate bed bugs at home. They are resorted to if there is no desire to treat the premises with chemicals.

Cedar oil has proven itself well in the fight against small insects. To get rid of them forever, you need to dilute it with water, and treat cabinets, bed frame and other furniture with a ready-made mixture. For the same purposes, you can use valerian tincture, from the aroma of which pests escape.

Essential oils also help keep insects out of the house. Even beds are allowed to be lubricated with these products. Extracts are used for processing:

• carnations;
• eucalyptus;
• rosemary;
• basilica;
• geraniums.

Tinctures and essential oils of a number of plants scare off bed bugs with their smell
Some herbs have a persistent odor that is very unpleasant for small bloodsuckers. Tansy flowers help to fight them. They should be laid out under the mattress and next to the bed. Wormwood has a similar property: it is usually laid out in a wardrobe with clothes. True, such a plant is most often used as an auxiliary tool, since the bugs do not die from its smell, but only move to another place.

It is also worth spreading chamomile around the house. The flower can be crushed to a powdery mixture and scattered into all the cracks and in the corners. To scare off bedbugs, it is recommended to make a solution of tea tree oil and valerian tincture. Such a product is applied to the surface of furniture or sprayed in the room.

The smell of a plant like chamomile scares off bed bugs.

To exterminate blood-sucking insects, it is worth using vinegar essence. This acid must be mixed with rubbing alcohol and naphthalene. The resulting solution is poured into a spray bottle and used to treat baseboards, sofas and other nooks. Washing bed linen with the addition of vinegar will help enhance the effect.

Some people prefer to use turpentine with kerosene to kill pests. First you need to grate a little tar or laundry soap on a fine grater. The shavings are diluted with boiling water and wait until it is completely dissolved. 20 ml of turpentine and kerosene are poured into such a mixture. A brush or sponge is dipped into the solution and the places where insects accumulate are treated. You can also spray this product on furniture. At the end of the work, the premises should be left for 24 hours. Then you need to do wet cleaning. The procedure, if necessary, is repeated after a few days.

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The modern drug for bedbugs Hector is a fairly effective remedy for bedbugs that allows you to carry out work on destruction with maximum effect and minimum consequences.

It is worth noting that one treatment of an apartment will not give a 100% guarantee that all bugs will disappear, even if the best remedy was used.This is due to the fact that during the treatment with poison, you may not notice some of the eggs of the bugs, or the bug simply found a secluded place and went through hard times. And then he got out and with even greater zeal began to restore the population.

Therefore, many insecticidal preparations are recommended to be used twice at weekly intervals. The second treatment is designed to destroy the remaining individuals. This sequence of actions provides the full effect of processing.

There are many effective bed bug killing agents on the market today that will help you deal with the problem quickly and without unnecessary hassle!

Preventing the appearance of insects

In order not to think about how to get the bed bugs out of the house, some tips to follow... You should not buy used upholstered furniture. After a walk in the woods or a trip out of town, you need to carefully inspect things and bags so as not to inadvertently bring parasites. It is advisable to wash bedding at the highest temperature.

Periodically, it is worth using plants with a pungent odor that repel blood-sucking insects: wormwood, lavender, tansy and chamomile. Instead of herbs, essential oils are used, which are applied to cotton pads and laid out in rooms. It is also necessary to ensure that pets do not walk in abandoned houses and basements.

Calling the pest control service

A simple but costly way to get rid of parasites is to contact a specialized service. You don't have to do anything yourself. You pay for the service and leave the apartment for a while. Experts will independently treat every corner of the room with an insecticidal agent.

The timing of processing, the drug used and other conditions for disinsection are discussed by the representative of the selected company with the customer in advance. He will give instructions. Before starting work, the owners remove food and hygiene items from the apartment, take out pets and plants, and leave themselves.

In the course of work, the specialist treats all possible places of concentration of insects with a strong insecticidal agent. On average, this process takes 40 minutes. After that, the room is ventilated for at least 4 hours. All that remains is to carry out a thorough cleaning to get rid of dead bedbugs.

Ways of penetration of bedbugs into human dwellings

• Bedbugs love to travel. They can climb into clothes, a suitcase, and falling into suspended animation, spend a long time without food until they get to a favorable place.
• Bedbugs can be brought on clothes by a person who lives in a room infested with bedbugs. Often these are hostels.
• Used furniture can be infested with bedbugs, so you should take a good look at it when buying it. It is also not recommended to pick up discarded furniture from stairwells, and even more so from garbage containers, no matter how attractive it may be. If it was thrown out, then there must be bedbugs.
• Ventilation passages in your home are ideal overpasses for bedbugs. Be careful if your neighbors have bed bugs. There is a high probability that they can appear in you, if you do not take action.
• Pest controllers say bedbugs can also move around the outer walls of houses in search of a new home.

Home bugs: what are

Modern science knows more than 40 thousand species of bedbugs and domestic bugs - the only ones that exist in the apartments of the Central region of Russia, however, here it is required to bring some clarity to the term itself.

The wording "house bugs" can mean:

• The family Cimicidae, which in Russian is described as bed bugs, includes about 90 different species of these insects.
• A specific type of bug that belongs to this family is Cimex lectularius, in Russian it also sounds like a bed bug.
• One of the common household names for blood-sucking bugs living in apartments, without scientific reference to any species.

House bugs, bed bugs and sofa bugs are one and the same type of insects that live in apartments. In order to effectively deal with bedbugs, it is enough to establish that it is they, and not some cardinally other blood-sucking insects, for example, lice

or
fleas
.

Bedbugs: types, features

There are more than 40 thousand species of bedbugs, but about 800 species live on the territory of the CIS countries. They are divided into several groups, falling into each of which depends on the type of food. The first group is ectoparasites that feed on the blood of warm-blooded creatures. The second group consists of predators, whose diet mainly consists of larvae and some species of insects. The most harmless are phytophages that eat plant sap.

Among ectoparasites, there are quite dangerous individuals, for example, triatom bugs, which are also called kissing bugs. Most often, they bite a person on the face, after which the latter begins to develop Chagas disease. In the absence of proper treatment, an infected person can die. However, these insects are common in Central America and Mexico. Residents of the CIS countries suffer mainly from bed (sofa) ectoparasites, which can live in an apartment, private house, hostel, etc.