Bed bugs settle in people's clothes when they are looking for new habitats and breeding grounds. But most of all they love bed, mattresses, upholstered furniture, where they sit during the day and drink human blood at night. When there are too many of them, insects move into closets with outerwear or linen. There they hide in folds of fabric, laying eggs. If you do not take any measures, a person's life will become unbearable from the bites. Allergic reactions and constant irritation of the nervous system await him.
Main abodes
Consider some of the sources of bedbugs.
Here are the main ones:
- One of these in an apartment of a multi-storey residential building is a ventilation system. It provides bedbugs with the ability to travel virtually unhindered. During such migrations, insects look for the best options for a place of residence.
- In damp basements or just in old houses filled with junk, there is a great chance of bloodsuckers appearing. They breed there with great pleasure and wait for the chance to get on the human body.
- Bed bugs also live in ordinary soil, close to domestic animals. They are used to sucking blood from rabbits, cows and even mice. In short, any warm-blooded animals are their profile. Human blood appeals to them to bed bugs much more.
Having picked up a bug by accident at a picnic, while on a business trip (terrible hotel) and other random places, you bring it to your home. It is also highly likely that he himself will run over to you through the ventilation from the neighbors. At the same time, not knowing about the presence of unwanted tenants, you cannot prevent them from something. Yes, exactly a change of location!
Propagation paths
Clothing is the very thing that causes bedbugs to spread. If your clothes have been lying in a room where bedbugs live for some time, there is a possibility that on your return you will bring these parasites into the house with them. You can bring bedbugs to your apartment from the store where you buy new clothes.
If you went to visit a friend in the daytime and stayed there for 3-5 hours, then the likelihood that you will bring bedbugs with you on your clothes is not high. At this time, bedbugs sleep in a secluded place, and they have no time for you.
But in the case when you spend the night with a friend or leave your things for 3-5 days, the likelihood of catching bedbugs is much increased.
Having settled in clothes, parasites live in it until they find themselves in a house or apartment. Once in the bedroom, the bugs leave their temporary shelter and settle in the mattress or in the folds of the sofa, where they create a nest.
For a longer time, bugs live in dirty clothes than in clean linen. Or, when clothes from a suitcase, after arriving from a business trip, immediately fall into the closet with other things.
Bed bugs are carried on clothing if it has been in an infected room for a while. You can even bring a bug into the house on a new one from the store.
Parasitizing bedbugs
During the day, pests hide away from the sun's rays in secluded places. They intensify their activity in the middle of the night, when the victim is fast asleep. During the day, infection is minimized, even if the person has been indoors for a long time.But in order to pick up a bug, it is enough to spend the night in such a room, or leave your bags and suitcases there.
Pests will live in things until they get into a person's house. Initially, they hide in folds, seams. There, the female can leave eggs during her stay. Then he looks for a more comfortable place to live permanently. For several days it masters, looks closely, forms a nest.
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Can bedbugs live in a closet?
Finding themselves on clothes (bugs move around rather quickly in the room), sooner or later they end up in the closet. Again, this is possible if the person is not aware of the encroachment on his peace from the outside. But more on that later.
Bed bugs can live in clothes, and they are quite comfortable there. Various folds, ruffles, folds are conducive to making maneuvers that are barely distinguishable. The situation is doubly sad when a person does not realize with whom he is dealing.
To know the enemy by sight, we strongly recommend reading other useful articles on our website:
- The main reasons why bedbugs appear in the apartment.
- What do the larvae and eggs of domestic parasites look like?
- How do indoor bed bugs bite?
The bug happily settles in long dresses, pants, pajamas, in general, in clothes that have gone into a decent amount of fabric. The oblong cloth is a paradise for wandering and the growth of larvae! It is also easy to find a dark corner to lay eggs in such tissue environments. Can bedbugs live in human clothing? Naturally, because they are "guys" are not too demanding!
By the way, fur products are not in the interests of parasites. They easily become entangled in them and lose coordination of movements. So not every outfit will serve as a comfortable home for bloodsuckers.
If the enemies overtook a person who is well-groomed, pedantic and loving cleanliness, then they are more likely to fall into the closet. You understand that the bugs are moving to a new level of power there. The huge space allows them to successfully breed new offspring. The latter will try to make human life unbearable.
Having acquired a safe haven, the parasites will sooner or later begin to storm the bastion bed. Along with this, their gradual development of the territory of the premises will begin, as well as the search for new opportunities for procreation. Believe me, the number of bedbugs will grow exponentially.
Eggs are attached to shoulders, collars, sleeves. The heirs will be lucky if the chosen clothing is not used for its intended purpose for a long time, that is, it stays and grows overgrown with dust in the closet from being unnecessary.
As a rule, it also contains many other things besides clothes. These can be shoe boxes, handbags, technical gadgets, and so on, which the owner just does not come up with. Therefore, there is room to go.
Due to the absence of temperature changes inside the furniture, bedbugs prefer this type to many other places. Standard conditions for productive life: + 17 ° C - + 35 ° C. Plus, human vigilance and attentiveness when examining the contents is not particularly great. Therefore, insects have little fear of early identification of themselves.
So to the question "Do bedbugs live in clothes in the closet?" it is necessary to answer that they really live happily ever after!
Unfortunately, without full information about the status quo, one can seriously surrender positions in this confrontation. You will be trying to track down enemies under the bed or behind the radiator for a long time in order to quickly get rid of them. But…
Therefore, we advise, since you have already gone to this page, do not be too lazy to check the cabinets, dressers, shelves and, in general, re-coat everything. Even if there are no specific smells, there are no bloody spots on the sheets, it is still useful to do this. Moral satisfaction from the awareness of the aesthetics of the environment has not yet been canceled!
More details about how to find bedbugs in an apartment have already been described earlier!
Having dressed in a suit, you can not of your own free will shake off bedbugs to friends or relatives. Finding itself in other conditions, the insect is able to both stay in its place and go to explore the unknown.
Habitat
Bedbugs settle in a person's bed and live there constantly, regardless of the season. Indoor conditions, at which the temperature is 22 degrees, and the humidity is kept at around 60%, are suitable for these creatures. Another condition for bedbugs to live is secluded places to hide from the sun and people.
Since parasites feed on human blood, then they choose places for days close to a place to sleep:
- bed;
- mattress;
- sofa;
- furniture next to the bed;
- carpet;
- plinth;
- Stuffed Toys.
Although rare, bedbugs are sometimes found in closets where people fold their clothes.
In fact, things are not the habitats of bedbugs. The temperature in the closet is favorable, but there is no person there for the parasite to feed on. Therefore, the bloodsucker lives where a person sleeps at night.
Sometimes the colony of bed bugs in the house becomes too large and there is a shortage of food. Then they, in search of food, go hunting during the day, penetrating into closets with clothes. Making a change of clothes, a person takes clean linen, puts it on, and then goes to work or to friends, transferring pests to new habitats.
Bedbugs will not live in the clothes that a person has put on, because they do not tolerate anxiety and light. At the first opportunity, insects will leave their temporary shelter and move to bed.
It turns out that insects are not adapted to live in clothes, and move to it only in exceptional cases.
Bed bugs live in a person's house all year round. For them, it makes no difference what the temperature is outside the window. Inside, there is always a constant, comfortable temperature within 22 degrees Celsius, humidity about 60%, full of secluded places where you can hide from the sun's rays.
- Insects feed on human blood, so they prefer to build housing closer to the sleeping place. The standard and most common habitat for bedbugs is bed, mattress, bed, sofa.
- In second place are furniture near the bed, decor items, books, photographs, flower pots, unsticked wallpaper, parquet flooring, carpets, baseboards.
- Bed bugs rarely settle in interior items - table lamps, clocks, sockets, household appliances, soft toys, pillows, wardrobes with human clothes. They can live in a pet's bed.
Based on this, one can answer the question of whether bedbugs live in clothes in the affirmative. But this requires some conditions.
How to deal with detected parasites?
It's not so important what happened before, if the bugs are already raging with might and main. It is necessary, in the event of their licentiousness, to take up the tedious process of the complete destruction of parasites.
Of course, the process is not tempting, but sometimes you have to sacrifice manicure and wallet thickness. In order to reduce costs, do not try to immediately involve the sanitary team in this case. Someone else's work is not always of high quality, and they will take as much money for work as chickens do not bite.
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SES services
Treatment of clothes from bedbugs is usually carried out independently or through dry cleaning. But full-fledged etching of bedbugs in Moscow is pest control of the entire apartment. Here you cannot do without the help of specialists. Example: "United City Intelligence Service", where only professionals work. Evaluate the benefits of cooperation with us:
- High speed of work. Usually 1 treatment is enough to destroy the entire colony;
- We arrive at a time convenient for you (day off, when the children are at school, etc.);
- We do not put your health at risk;
- We will leave the furniture without the damage typical of amateur steam processing;
- Eliminate unpleasant odors;
- We use products that are not sold in a regular store;
- While the employee is at the facility, you can go about your business;
- Neighbors will not know about our departure, unless you yourself decide to share the news with them or recommend us;
- We guarantee quality - we carry out repeated works free of charge.
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To do this, every single thing is collected and loaded into the washing machine. Remember linen and towels. For processing, a high temperature is required, which will not be lower than the 50 index. It is best to set the mode to 90 degrees. What if the clipper is missing? Then the clothes are boiled. Of course, if they are not silk or woolen. After washing, clothes are hung out in the sun.
After airing, use a hot iron for ironing. Also treat clothes effectively with steam. If you have a steam generator, then use it for furniture, treat every crack and corner in the apartment.
When processing fabrics, pay attention to the recommendations that can be found on the label. This will determine how much the item can be washed at a high temperature. If the problem with bedbugs appeared in the summer, then it's even easier. Things are left in a bag outside in the hot sun. However, the temperature should not be lower than 50 degrees. So you can handle clothes yourself for several days.
What to do if washing is not available
If it is not possible to wash the item in hot water, use a non-toxic spray and pack the items in bags. They cannot be opened for a month. Sometimes it may take two months for processing to get rid not only of bedbugs, but also of their eggs.
Still, the best helper in pest control is steam. No matter how simple the situation, it is important to wash and steam your clothes. If your apartment was disinfected by a disinfection service, treat all your clothes additionally, because specialists usually do not take on the processing of personal belongings. And when bedbugs are poisoned, what to do with things? Fold them in a plastic bag and tie them securely.
Reasons for the appearance
There can be many reasons why bedbugs begin to live in an apartment or a private house and it is almost impossible to insure against their appearance. Even with perfect cleanliness and order in the apartment, these parasites can start.
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Old and dilapidated multi-storey buildings are an excellent breeding ground for insects. Bedbugs can freely move from neighboring apartments. For this, the slightest gap is enough, they freely penetrate through ventilation shafts, between pipes, sewers.
After visiting a hotel or hostel, you need to thoroughly check things in bags and suitcases. In such rooms, the presence of bedbugs is not uncommon and the possibility of transferring them on clothes and in bags is not excluded.
Can bedbugs be brought home on clothes? This is also acceptable, but for this you need to at least spend the night indoors. Since the bugs do not crawl out of their hiding places during the day.
Animals are excellent carriers of insects. This method is common in private homes, where pets move freely along the street. Insects can be brought along with furniture, household and electronic equipment.
