Destruction of bedbugs: reviews of people and important practical nuances

Self-destruction of bedbugs in the house is quite difficult for an unprepared person. Although it is generally accepted that bed bugs can be poisoned in the same way as cockroaches, this is only partly true. Bedbugs really die from the effects of the same aerosol insecticides and sprays that destroy cockroaches, but no gels, poisoned traps, baits with boric acid and various folk remedies (for the most part) will help to destroy them.

The reason for this lies in the specific nutritional status of bed bugs. These insects can only pierce the skin of humans and some domestic animals, and then suck blood. They will not eat various baits or run into the spaced houses with odorous attractants, and this must first of all be taken into account by those who decide to take on the destruction of bedbugs on their own.

Reviews of even experienced parasite fighters clearly demonstrate all the difficulties in the fight against them.

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“I know what the destruction of bed bugs is firsthand, and when I read other reviews, it makes me laugh. She herself poisoned them first in the first apartment, then in the second, then in the mother's house, and this summer - in the country. Tenacious creatures, it is not always possible to destroy them the first time. Previously, dust helped very well from them - we scattered it along the baseboards and under the beds when we left home. Then he was banned. At my mother's place, I poisoned bedbugs with Cucaracha. It smells bad and needs to be diluted in a certain concentration. I brought it out in two times, there was a break between them for a week. In the second apartment, when it was necessary to poison, I did not find Cucaracha, I bought Get, I liked him more, because it has no smell. You sprinkle everything with it once, and then you don't need to wash the floors for a week. And that's all, only you collect dead bugs. But Geth is dear. Therefore, when the bugs started up in the country later, I bred a simple Karbofos. And here's what I'll say - this is the best tool in general. It smells, of course, but it reliably poisons bedbugs, but it costs a penny. I do not think that I will ever encounter them, but if this happens, I will poison with Karbofos. "

Elena Pavlovna, Moscow

People do not like to write reviews about the destruction of bedbugs, even if this destruction was perfect.

It is necessary to take into account the specifics of the pest control service itself from bedbugs. Few people want to tell the whole Internet that he had bed bugs. Moreover, if the problem with bedbugs is really solved and everything is fine, the person no longer needs to write something. Plus, many clients do not actively use forums and review aggregators and believe that they will not be able to leave a review anonymously. And non-anonymously talking about your problems with domestic bugs is unattractive.

Still, if, say, a review of an expensive restaurant or a fashionable hotel is a way to brag, then a review of bedbug breeding will definitely not make any relatives or friends admire the author of this review.

As a result, people rarely leave reviews on high-quality effective pest control from bedbugs.

The cost

Affordable price is one of the most important advantages of the household poison of the brand under discussion.The cost of different forms of insecticide release is shown in the table (data as of January 2020).

Table - Cost of funds "Clean House"

All Clean House products for bedbugs contain chamomile extract, which enhances the effect of the pyrethroid tandem. During the disinfestation period, it is better to take small children out of the house for a few days. It should also be noted that tetramethrin and cypermethrin are extremely toxic to creatures that inhabit water bodies, both natural and artificial. Therefore, they should be used with special care near water.

Before starting pest control, the instructions for using the "Clean House" for bedbugs must be read by you from beginning to end. Not only the final result depends on this, but also the safety of you and your loved ones.

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People write bad reviews more often than good ones

Negative reviews are written as soon as there is a reason. If a person does not like something, he remains offended or feels some kind of injustice, he will find the opportunity, time and energy to tell about it.

The speed at which people usually rush to complain online is several times faster than the speed of light

Sometimes it comes to the point that, in a normal situation, a particularly suspicious client can write a bad review, and then, after resolving the problem, they simply cannot delete it.

An illustrative example: a heavily infected apartment, a lot of bedbugs, a lot of things. The disinsector processes it, destroys the bugs, but warns that with such an initial infection, after a few days, larvae may begin to hatch from the eggs, which will begin to bite and will need to be poisoned after 10-12 days. This is as it should be, this is standard pest control. If the bugs are removed the first time, this is good. If reprocessing is needed, that's okay. After the second high-quality treatment at home, there will be no bugs. The customer nods his head, says yes, everything is clear. Two days later, he finds the first bites of larvae on himself, panics, calls the service at three in the morning, does not dial (because the operators work from 8 in the morning), gets angry at everyone, and goes to scribble reviews on Otzovik, on Ayrecommend, on YouTube , Vkontakt and everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

An example of a negative and most likely honest review

In the morning, the operators call him back, agree on the time for re-treatment, the exterminator arrives, destroys all the bugs, no one bites the client, everyone is happy, everyone calms down, the client thanks the exterminator. But the reviews written in a panic at night remain and then they are read by other victims of bedbugs.

Moreover, if there is one such treatment for 100 treatments, then 99 satisfied customers will not leave a good response. But this one, who got scared, who remained dissatisfied, will unsubscribe somewhere. And everyone who will look for reviews about this private SES will not know anything about 99 successful treatments, but they will learn about this one ill-fated one.

General rules for the use of bedbug dust

Depending on the selected dust, there are two processing methods. In the first, the powder is diluted in water, in the second, this is not necessary, since the dust loses its properties. Read the information on the package carefully. Dry powder application rules:

1. Before processing, carry out a wet cleaning in the apartment.
2. Move furniture away from the walls.
3. Use a cotton gauze bandage and gloves when handling.
4. Remove food and dishes.
5. Spread dust in places where bedbugs accumulate and move, as well as in corners, crevices and under baseboards.
6. After a week, carry out the treatment again.

Important! Do not tighten with re-processing, otherwise the bugs from the eggs left after the first use will lay new ones. And then the work will be useless.

When processing with dust diluted in water, follow the same rules. For spraying, use a spray bottle where insects accumulate. To dilute the dust in the correct proportions, follow the manufacturer's instructions.

Video: pest control of the room with dust

Good pest controllers also have bad reviews.

At the same time, some kind of negative always happens even with decent, professional, conscientious exterminators. Somewhere clients cheat the exterminator, for example:

• They say that the apartment is clean, but on the spot it is littered with rubbish to the ceiling and people walk in it in street shoes;
• They call to process a kopeck piece with two sofas, but in fact the exterminator finds 10 bunk beds in the apartment;
• They say that the apartment is in a normal state, but in fact there are through holes in it to the neighbors, a door with centimeter slots, gaps between the heating pipes and the ceiling, and bugs from all neighbors, and these bugs will come here two weeks after the previous complete disposal, if all these cracks cannot be repaired.

Somewhere clients themselves are very conflicting. In general, the work of the sanitary service is somehow connected with frequent contacts with not the most prosperous segments of the population. For example:

• Somewhere the exterminator is called by alcoholics, who are already in good condition for the agreed time and are somewhere in a parallel universe. And it is impossible to prepare an apartment with them, or to discuss anything.
• Somewhere the exterminator is called to the mentally ill people.
• Somewhere neighbors throw off to poison bedbugs in some very dysfunctional apartment, and the owner of this apartment, under their pressure, agrees to sanitize, but he is especially not happy with the visit of the exterminator.
• Someone does not sleep for three days before processing, sits on the bed with a flashlight, waits for bedbugs, and by the time of processing comes into an inadequate state.
• There are just people who are always dissatisfied with everything, offended by life, who in any case will not be satisfied.

And even with good handling from one of these characters, you can get negative feedback for any wrong sneeze, even an imaginary one.

That is, for a good exterminator or a good service, a tiny fraction of dissatisfied customers generates a large, sometimes even a significant portion of the reviews..

So ...

We identify places for processing where there are bugs

It should be noted that such an infection as bedbugs can with equal success infect themselves not only dirty barracks, apartments of dysfunctional and unclean people, but even those living quarters in which renovation was recently made... Unsanitary conditions are, of course, an important factor to pay attention to, but this is not the main reason for the appearance of a bed bug in the house. They usually either crawling from neighbors, brought into the house with clothes, travel bags, packages, on the hair of pets returning from a walk, from the garbage chute etc.

If at night you feel that someone is biting you, then you need to immediately conduct a full check, in which places of the house or apartment there may be bugs, which places to process in the future. This can be done by yourself, or you can call the specialists of the disinsection service who will carry out the diagnosis. In general, bugs often hide in the following places:

• under the wallpaper that has been lifted up or behind the wall, or in their cracks;
• under the skirting boards - both below and above, on the skirting board;
• in the folds of curtains, tablecloths and other fabrics that have not been changed or erased for a long time;
• under the mattress or in the folds of upholstered furniture - sofas, armchairs, sofas, and so on;
• under rugs, carpets, bedding, paths;
• on the back wall of cabinet or upholstered furniture, standing against the wall or hanging on the walls - for example, bookshelves;
• cracks in the floor or walls;
• in drawers of dressers, bedside tables;
• corners of the room;
• even in book bindings, stacked clean linen, in the folds of hanging clothes in a wardrobe.

Bed bugs are not colonial insects, they live in "nests", peculiar heaps - "nests", where there are adults (females and males), as well as eggs and larvae. The droppings of these creatures are quite noticeable - dark spots or droplets of black or dark brown color on fabrics, parquet, furniture and other places. It is not difficult to find bedbugs - you just need to look around secluded places to see either their feces or "nests" with swarming insects.

People react more sharply and remember the negative in the reviews better.

This is such a feature of the human psyche, it is rooted deeply in ancient instincts and, first of all, in the instinct of self-preservation. It is more important for us to see something bad in order to avoid it and protect ourselves from danger than to pay attention to something good.

Just imagine the situation: you are reading reviews of a company.

1. First tip: A good company, they called them, we had a lot of bedbugs, they got in from our neighbors. The disinfector arrived, poisoned, the bugs disappeared, everything is fine. There are no more bugs.
2. The second tip: They called the service, the exterminator arrived, destroyed all the bugs the first time. Before that, they bit every night, especially children, now there are no bites at all. Thanks, all is well.
3. Third tip: God, what a nightmare, I never thought that I would face something like this in my life! My little daughter was bitten by these vampires at night. In the morning, there are two such blisters on this gentle hand, the child itches, I'm afraid there is no allergy. I called the service, a man came, filled everything with some smelly muck, I almost fainted from this smell, the child spent the whole day with my grandmother. Barely aired, 2000! I paid rubles for this work, three days passed, and again the child had these monstrous blisters. The bugs bite again, I called the service, and these impudent people dare to argue that this is how it should be and re-treatment is needed. This is some kind of horror, I had to repeat everything again. Again the apartment stinks, again the child is at my grandmother's, I don't know what to do anymore! Now there are no bugs, but what if they appear again?

Which of these reviews do you remember best? And what kind of opinion you will have about the work of the company. Although, in fact, there are two positive reviews about difficult situations when there were a lot of bedbugs and they were safely removed, that is, the exterminator worked well. And here is one comment about a simple situation where there were few bugs, they were taken out, then they poisoned the larvae that appeared (this is normal, it should be so!), And everything ended well. But due to suspiciousness, because of the violent reaction of the author of the review to this situation and because of the specific presentation, it seems that the master worked poorly, the client's expectations were not met and the author of the review did not receive the desired result.

At a minimum, keep in mind that when you read such reviews, the psychological state of the person who wrote the review will be conveyed to you. If he wrote in a panic, you might panic too. If it's written with humor, you can smile too.

But the main: you will most likely remember bad reviews, even if there are fewer of them than good ones... It's just a property of the human psyche. It is because of him that they talk to you on TV and in any media first of all about who died where, who got sick where, who was raped where and what exploded where. Because it immediately catches you. You are not told who survived where, who recovered, and what did not explode. You will not be told that several million people have successfully flown by airplanes today, but they will certainly tell you about a plane that fell somewhere with dead passengers. Because we react calmly to good news, as to the norm, and bad news impress us and make us worry.

Therefore, analyzing the reviews on the removal of bedbugs by a particular service, just count how many good reviews about it, and how many bad ones.Comparing these numbers is more accurate than an emotional assessment of the content of these reviews.

Chemical agents against bedbugs

Now there are many different products that manufacturers specifically develop for baiting bedbugs. These funds are issued in different forms - some in the form of powders, which must then be diluted with water, some in the form concentrates... And some are sold ready-made, just take and apply - for example, aerosols and prepared liquids... For example, we will give just a few of these chemicals with descriptions and reviews of people who have successfully poisoned bedbugs by one means or another.

Effective Ultra

Manufactured by Halmark Kemikl, The Netherlands

1. Product form - insecticide in microencapsulated liquid milky white.
2. Container volume - 1 liter polyethylene bottles.
3. Active ingredients in the composition - Dicarboximide (MGK-264) 4.96%, Piperonyl butoxide (PPB) 1.66%, Propoxur 17.2%, Tetramethrin 0.86%
4. The focus of the drug is the fight against harmful insects and bacteria. Used by often by sanitary services for the prevention of epidemics.
5. How to use - the drug is needed breedsb with water strictly according to the instructions that are attached to the canister (the norm for the insecticide is 5 grams per 1 liter of water). The ready-made working solution or concentrate is simply sprayed through some kind of spray bottle.
6. One hundred percent effect after treatment comes in 24 hours, and the first signs of insect death already show themselves in 2-4 hours.
7. Low toxicity (4th class of hazard). But the treatment is best done indoors, where there are no people and pets.
8. Preservation is no more than 2 years, the drug is resistant to low temperatures (can be stored at temperatures down to -20˚С).
9. Cost - 2200 RUB

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The drug in action:

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An inexpensive and effective remedy, I strongly advise everyone when nothing helps. The DV formula is complex, 2 times the guarantee was no longer applied.

Averfos

1. Manufacturer - Russia
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2. Product release form - concentrate
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3. The volume of the container is 1 liter.
4. Active ingredient - chlorpyrifos 48%.
5. The effect after treatment occurs within 24 hours and lasts for another 3 months.
6. Solution preparation: 5 ml / l; consumption - on non-absorbent surfaces 50 ml, on absorbent surfaces - 100 ml per 1 square meter.
7. Toxicity is high.
8. Average price - 1550 rbl.

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Sveta, 20 years old, Chelyabinsk. My mom just works in a sanitary station. And once, when bedbugs appeared in our hall, she had to bring a little of such a drug from work. It was called "Averfos". Displays nasty insects at once! I didn't even have to carry out several treatments. True, we left home for a couple of days. But when they arrived, they even saw dead bedbugs behind the sofa.

Medilis-Ziper

1. Product release - Russia,.
2. Product form - concentrate.
3. The active substance is cypermethrin 25%
4. Toxicity - medium, class 3
5. Volume 500 ml.
6. Price - RUB 1,500

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Natalia, St. Petersburg. I bought Medilis, praised by the Internet, in the end I had to spend half a bottle in order to immobilize the bugs in the slightest degree on the baseboards where they appeared. Thank God, this dirty trick has not even reached the bed, and upholstered furniture. The effect is serious.

Medilis Ziper video:

A significant part of the reviews on the Internet are fakes that do not correspond to reality.

Alas, this is so: perhaps half, and perhaps even more than half of the reviews that you read and for which you are ready to make a choice of a particular company, are actually written either in the company itself, or by third-party authors to order, or by competitors of this company. ...

We know one service operating in Moscow, and a fairly large one, they have 8 or 10 exterminators, and the office has a director, an accountant, two operators on the phone and two, let's say, marketers who create endless accounts in social networks, on forums and on Otzovik and write good reviews about their own company, and bad reviews about competing companies on behalf of fantastic clients. Such a factory of pest control trolls ...

Compared to freelance exchanges, Olgino and his trolls are childish

Small companies cannot keep such authors on their staff, and therefore they simply order reviews on freelance exchanges - on Advego, Faver, Workzilla and others. Such a review costs around 300 rubles and may well influence your decision to call a particular service. And if the review is negative, then you can refuse the services of a good service, because some mother on maternity leave from a rented apartment in Yekaterinburg created an account on some forum, introduced herself as a Muscovite and told how she was allegedly deceived by an exterminator in her apartment on Patriarch's Ponds. And you believe this review.

When orders and money are very tight, the exterminators themselves sit, register new accounts and write reviews about themselves. Here you need to understand why they do not have orders and money, if they are such good exterminators.

How Hector destroys bedbugs

Hector's active ingredient dehydrates insects.

Particles of silicon dioxide are very small, due to which the total area of ​​their surfaces is very large. For example, the total surface area of ​​particles of a product weighing 1 g is 348 square meters. At the same time, the powder is drier than the surfaces of insect bodies and, when it gets on them, begins to draw on moisture and fats.

In particular, upon contact with the chitinous cover of bedbugs, Hector causes a cascade of sequential reactions:

1. It attracts wax particles that prevent moisture from evaporating from the surface of the insect's body. The chitinous cover turns into a "sieve" instead of an integral shell;
2. Through the pores formed, it begins to vigorously draw out liquid on itself;
3. In parallel, the moisture from the bug's body evaporates by itself, without having an obstacle in the form of a wax layer;
4. The insect dies from dehydration.

Technical silicon dioxide is even more effective, since its particles are smaller and more actively draw on wax and moisture from the integument of the insect's body.

The more funds fall on the bug, the faster it will die. At the same time, due to its fine dispersion, the powder very easily adheres to the legs and abdomen of bedbugs running over it. As a result, insects die, even having run over Hector only once.

At the same time, Hector has no expiration date. While it remains on the surface and remains dry, any insect running through here collects it on itself, and then dies. This compares favorably with insecticides of acute action, "fizzling out" in a few days, in the best case - in 2-3 weeks.

Hector is equally effective against any invertebrate with an exoskeleton. In particular, it destroys:

• Bed bugs
• All kinds of cockroaches - red, black, Turkmen, furniture
• Muravyov
• Fleas and their larvae
• Mites, both dust and ixodid
• Spiders
• Centipedes, including kivsiacs and flycatchers
• Mokrits
• All kinds of moths - food, clothes, various moths
• Adult stages of beetles - grinders, barbel, weevils, kozheedov - and their openly living larvae (for example, weevil larvae). The larvae of grinders and barbel with the help of Hector cannot be destroyed, since they develop deeply in the cavities of wooden objects
• Fly larvae
• Slugs and snails

At the same time, animals living in humid places can theoretically save themselves after contact with the powder. If, for example, a slug, after crawling over Hector, manages to climb under a stone on a soil saturated with water, then it will be able to compensate for the loss of moisture from the wet earth. Therefore, Hector is designed to fight insects in rooms where all sources of moisture can be eliminated in advance.

Only unscrupulous exterminators and scammers have only positive reviews.

Above, we have already figured out that even with the ideal work of the exterminator, some tiny part of the customers will still be dissatisfied, but this tiny part of the customers will generate a significant part of the reviews about the company, and these reviews will be negative.

That is, no service works without conflict situations and without any disagreements with clients. If she works at all and fulfills at least a certain number of orders.

If the service has no negative reviews, then it removes them. And if they are not on those sites from which it is impossible to delete them, it means that the service practically does not work, and has either two orders per month, or was only created yesterday.

Hector against bedbugs application of the composition

The drug is sold in a package with a spray dispenser, which allows you to use the composition economically and effectively. It should be applied in places with a particularly large accumulation of parasites. Most often they live:

• under furniture, in a carpet and under it;
• along and inside skirting boards, in sockets, near the window frame, door frame;
• on the walls of the cabinet, leaning against the wall, inside the cabinets in the far corners;
• in textiles, upholstered furniture, mattresses.

It is recommended to process all walls around the perimeter, wallpaper joints, cracks. Since the composition is natural, it can be safely applied to the bed, mattress. To better spread the powder over the surface, you can walk over it with a brush.

After application, allow time for the powder to settle on the surface. For the first 1-1.5 hours, it is better not to approach the treated areas. According to the classification of substances, Hector belongs to the class of low-hazard compounds. But as a powder, it can enter the respiratory tract, causing discomfort.

If this happens, wash your eyes, mouth, nose, hands as thoroughly as possible with soap and water and apply cream. This will be enough to eliminate all unpleasant sensations.

Reviews from the company outside of social networks must be mandatory

The company has no reviews at all on third-party sites - either a newborn or one that has been working for a long time, disgraced itself, completely ruined its reputation with poor-quality treatments, broke firewood so that it had to close the old site and open a new one, change phones so that customers would not find them, and police, and start everything from scratch, and reviews in social networks are simply added through freelance exchanges or through fake accounts of the employees themselves. Would you like to contact a service where employees only saw a hand sprayer yesterday and have not yet learned how to deal with bedbugs? Or the service that broke firewood? Question.…

That is, a large number of reviews with a certain amount of negative reviews is normal and better than no reviews at all.

How to ventilate the room

Bed bug traps

To achieve the maximum effect of treatment, it is necessary to exclude the access of insects to the liquid. For this, baths and sinks are wiped dry, the taps must be shut off. Do not leave damp laundry in the room where the treatment was carried out.

Poison traps can be crafted. For this, any container is taken, for example, a can lid. Powder is poured into it in a thin layer and placed under the furniture. This method will help destroy the surviving insects.

Three to four hours after the treatment, all dead insects must be removed. The traps are left for several weeks. It is not necessary to ventilate the room, since the drug does not have a specific smell.

Only unscrupulous exterminators and scammers also have negative reviews.

A good service always has many more satisfied customers than dissatisfied customers. And some of these satisfied customers will write a review either on their own initiative or at the request of the exterminator.

If there are no such positive reviews at all, it means that pest controllers work frankly badly in it. They may have successful treatments, but the share of unsuccessful ones is very high, the number of disappointed and angry customers is large, all these customers cannot get the company to fulfill their obligations and complain where they can. Accordingly, the overwhelming number of reviews about the service are negative.

How to properly analyze reviews and choose a pest control officer with their help?

Are bedbugs afraid of light

In short, no. Bedbugs of light are not afraid.

Bed suckers are nocturnal insects that prefer to bite at night.

If the fight against them has not been carried out for a long period, and the family has managed to reach threatening sizes, then the bugs will no longer have enough food, and even in the daytime it is difficult to avoid encroachments.

This rarely happens, but if during daylight hours it was possible to notice how adult parasites move around the room, you should immediately begin to destroy them. (Read - How to remove bedbugs).

It is quite easy to check how much the parasites dislike the light - by suddenly turning on a bright light source at night. Bloodsuckers scattering along the cracks will indicate that they do not like such stress at all.

It will not work to fight or even scare off bed bugs with the help of light - they will only temporarily hide in secluded dark crevices, but after a while they will certainly resume their sorties. It is better not to carry out such experiments - the insects will get used to the light, and even during the day there will be no rest from them.

Trust the reviews of those people you know and with whom you can communicate personally

It is desirable - the reviews that the person reported by phone or in correspondence to you personally.

First, so you know for sure that the review is real. You can be sure that no one invented it and that it reflects the real situation and the real work of the exterminator.

Secondly, the person does not have any selfish interest, he does not want to "sell" you the services of a particular service and, on the contrary, does not want to scare you away from it. That is, he will tell you the truth.

Thirdly, in addition to feedback, he may give you some useful advice. Agreeing to a hot fog, or getting along with a cold one, how to prepare an apartment, where to take the children - from a friend this may sound more convincing than from a service operator on the phone.

Temperature

Are bed bugs afraid of frost? These insects do not tolerate temperature changes, so freezing is sometimes used as the main means of control. The answer to the question of whether bedbugs are afraid of the cold depends on what is considered cold. Entomologists agree that temperatures below 10 degrees Celsius can be uncomfortable and stop active reproduction. But the cold is unlikely to kill insects. Therefore, freezing can only be effective at sub-zero temperatures.

Fundamental rules:

• The decrease should be sharp, otherwise the insects will have time to adapt.
• It is necessary to maintain the same temperature indicator for at least 12 hours, preferably a day or more.
• It is important to deprive bedbugs of the opportunity to run into warmth or hide in warm places and things.

Not only cold will help - at temperatures above 35 ° C, bedbugs also feel uncomfortable. But providing heat is more difficult than cooling a room, which is why the method of thermal control of the rise in temperature is not popular.

In addition to reviews, analyze all other available information about the company.

Read the history of the company, find out who its founder and director are. If this information is not available, this is already a wake-up call: why a company with good experience has nothing to tell about itself and why its founder and director is afraid of being recognized and connected with his own service.

It is also useful to know the names of the employees, especially the exterminators of a particular service. If their faces and names are also not disclosed, this is a reason to think.

Compare the length of time in the market and the number of reviews. Check the dates for the oldest reviews and see how long the company has been running with no reviews at all. If long enough, then this is another call: why did they not respond to her and was it then another company with an unknown past.

Just evaluate the company's website, the literacy of the texts on it, the fullness of its information.If this is one page, laid out in a free editor, then with a high probability there is a pest control officer behind it without orders and experience. It is clear that a city, and even more so a free phone number for callers is better than a mobile one, corporate mail is better than a simple one on regular mail services. These are all signs of companies that are firmly on their feet, even if they are not completely reliable signs.

Most importantly: look at the work of the company. Fortunately, today any company can show its work "face" - shoot a video, make a photo report on processing, write a report on its blog or on social networks. Even if these are not professional photos and videos, these materials themselves allow you to look at the company in action. And this is no less important and informative than reviews.

Also look at the prices. They must be adequate. It is impossible to remove bedbugs from a one-room apartment for 1000 or 1200 rubles. If you are promised such a price, know that they are already cunning to you and you will pay more for the withdrawal itself. Either they will convince you on the spot that you need to pay three thousand for complex treatment, or they will carry out pest control so that you will be forced to call the service again.

By the way, in the reviews themselves about the company, pay attention to the prices. In customized reviews, prices are not indicated, because the author writing the customized review did not use the services of the company, he does not know the order of prices and writes the most common things. Indicating the price in a review is a sign of its truth. And comparing the price in the review with the price indicated on the site is a way to calculate those who like to cheat on the spot.

Finally, there is such a useful method of exposing liars: all pest control services love to report what large clients they have worked with. Everybody has Lukoil, Yandex, Azbuka Vkusa, Rolf, and so on in their client lists. But you try to find on the website of this service or in its accounts in social networks, photos or videos from the processing of these clients.

Kostya from Disincity on deodorization after throwing a checker into the Yandex-Taxi office

If you don’t find it, then most likely the service did not work with these companies. And if she has to come up with such clients, then this is already a sign that she does not have normal processing.

Perfume scent

According to numerous reviews of people familiar with this problem, herbs are another sign of what house bugs are afraid of. The most famous plant repellents are:

• Tansy. Fresh and dry flowers, as well as decoctions made from them, have deterrent properties.
• Wormwood is recognized as the most effective plant for repelling bed bugs. Insects are afraid of the smell of both fresh and dried grass.
• Calamus is another plant that is completely safe for human health and has a pungent odor. Can be used as a powder, decoction or infusion.
• Bay leaf. This plant, or rather its leaves, are used to prepare various dishes. A pleasant aroma for humans is feared by parasitic insects. It is enough to put a few laurel twigs in bed so that the bloodsuckers do not annoy at night.
• Chamomile. Like other synanthropic insects, bugs do not like the smell of Feverfew, a drug based on chamomile.
• Marsh Ledum. The shoots cut in August have a particularly pungent smell, which the parasites are afraid of.

Bed bugs do not like the harsh odors of these herbs due to the fact that their strong scent obstructs the smell of a person and prevents it from being detected. Therefore, if you spread the fresh or even dried parts of the above plants around the bed, behind the heating radiators, in the slots of the ventilation hole, as well as inside and outside the cabinet, you can protect yourself from the attack of parasites for several days.

Plants for bedbugs

Considering that bed bugs are afraid of strong odors, essential oils can also be used as a deterrent:

• rosemary;
• eucalyptus;
• tea tree;
• lavender.

Oil-impregnated tampons will serve as reliable protection against night bites of bed monsters.

It should also be borne in mind that when using herbs, parasites do not lose their ability to reproduce. In this connection, their number will gradually increase. Yes, and herbal decoction or infusion cannot affect the eggs of bedbugs. Therefore, such a folk recipe is preferable to use as a fragrant barrier that does not allow this problem to be transferred from neighboring rooms.

Bedbugs don't like strong smells. This is due to the fact that in the process of searching for food, they rely on the sense of smell, using sensilla (hairs). It has been proven that concentrated substances scare bugs, and diluted ones only attract. So it doesn't matter which scent you use as long as you choose the right quantity and quality.

Wormwood has long been a popular remedy for the prevention of bedbugs. It is a poisonous plant that can be dried and put in hollow compartments of furniture, wardrobe. In the presence of bedbugs, the grass gives a short-term result, but it will save from a few random individuals.

Along with wormwood, tansy is used. However, the grass only works as long as the bed bugs are not hungry. It is worth putting the tansy out of the reach of children and animals. The best way to use herbs is to spread them out over ventilation and other possible routes into the house. Such a fragrant barrier will keep bed bugs in most cases.

Calamus and chamomile can also be used to combat bedbugs. Even dried herbs from the pharmacy will do. You can scatter them under the bed and other furniture, under the carpet and behind curtains. As a last resort, you can smoke wild rosemary. Clothes and household items cannot be treated with any recommended herbs.

Perfumery

There is a very sophisticated way to expel bed bugs - perfumery. These insects do not tolerate strong odors. Even in ancient times, wealthy people used bedbug perfume, literally doused with it to avoid night bites. Insects don't like bright perfumes and other harsh odors. Therefore, many people use cologne to combat them. The remedy is not the best and is a last resort.

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Like herbs, spirits very quickly cease to contain bedbugs. After three days, hungry parasites attack people, overcoming their aversion to smell.

Bedbugs often have a weakness for tobacco smoke. It affects them more than any other smell. Often, insects do not even bite a person who smokes. Of course, tobacco smoke will not help in the fight against bedbugs, because hardly anyone wants to soak the whole apartment with disgusting smoke and inhale it at the same time. Besides, smoking inside the house is unsafe.

Chemicals

These insects are vulnerable to many chemicals. These are such popular substances as kerosene, turpentine, denatured alcohol and vinegar. The ammonia effectively repels bed bugs. It is recommended to add it to the water as a preventive measure during wet cleaning of the room. A person will not feel the smell within a few hours after cleaning, but bedbugs suffer a lot.

It is worth remembering that the smell does not kill, but it will tell you how to protect yourself from bedbugs. Even with direct contact with these substances, bugs remain alive. It is better to use them as a preventive measure or completely abandon them in favor of safe means. Still, these substances cannot be classified as completely harmless, because even their very smell will be unpleasant for people too. Furniture can also be damaged in the process.

The fight against bedbugs arose simultaneously with their appearance. Since time immemorial, people have established that blood-sucking insects do not tolerate the smells of certain herbs and began to use these plants to expel domestic bugs from their homes. Among the herbs that are a good remedy in the fight against bedbugs, the following should be noted.

1. Sagebrush.Has proven to be a very effective method against bedbugs, especially in combination with other drugs. To get rid of parasites, it is enough to regularly wet cleaning with wormwood broth. This remedy is valid for 3-4 days, after which it is necessary to duplicate the treatment with wormwood again.

   

2. Common tansy or wild mountain ash. Inflorescences of tansy can not only scare off parasitic bugs, but also cause them temporary paralysis. To achieve the result, you need to scatter the plants in the bedroom.

   

3. Ledum. The rosemary herb powder should be distributed in the habitat of the parasites. Fumigation of the room with plant powder is also allowed.

   

4. Air. Its effect on bedbugs is in many ways similar to the use of tansy. The powder of this plant should be used to powder the places of the least likely accumulation of insects, such as bedding for dogs and cats, baseboards, corners of the room.

   

5. Chamomile. Pharmacy chamomile shows the expected result. If you hold the flowers in a saline solution, and then process them, the effect will become even more noticeable. In this case, domestic bugs will disappear for a long time, and maybe even forever.

   

6. Valerian. To do this, use a pharmacy tincture. The smell of valerian is also unsuitable for the life and reproduction of bedbugs, so its use gives the desired effect.

   

All of these herbs, with the exception of chamomile, with the wrong methods and doses, can be harmful to humans. Therefore, their use should be careful; after processing, the room must be ventilated without fail.

The popular way to get rid of bedbugs with the help of wormwood withstands the competition of professional pest control. Since it is considered sparing for humans and pets, the method can also be used independently, without the involvement of unauthorized persons. You can either buy a plant on the market, or in a pharmacy, or pick it yourself in places where it is allowed, having previously studied its appearance in the photo.

For this reason, many exterminators recommend using wormwood against bedbugs as an aid, in parallel with chemical weapons, judging by the reviews, it is precisely possible to achieve the maximum effect. Another nuance - wormwood does not have a lethal and even paralyzing effect on the insect, and what is most depressing - does not affect the ability to reproduce in any way.

It has long been known that bed bugs react negatively to perfume aromas. In medieval European castles, in order to get rid of bedbugs and ensure a restful sleep, noble nobles took baths with the addition of perfumery before going to bed, then they sprayed themselves with perfume so that they would not be attacked by bedbugs at night.

This fact has been confirmed in our time, indeed bed bugs react extremely negatively to perfumes, colognes and toilet waters, regardless of their price and constituent components. Moreover, the more pronounced the aroma, the more deterrent it is for domestic parasites.

But, as in the situation with light, bedbugs are able to adapt over time to extraneous odors and after a week continue to bite people living in the apartment.

Trust reviews that are posted on highly moderated sites that are not affiliated with the company

That is, on those sites from which company employees cannot delete them - Otzovik, Ayrekommend and others.

Nobody, except the author, can delete or edit such a review on Otzovik.

Yes, reviews here can be ordered from third-party performers, the intrigues of competitors may also appear here, but the company itself cannot clean up the negative here and scribble thanks to itself.

Room handling and precautions

We usually start the treatment of the premises with the "HECTOR" means from sleeping places.These are the places where we usually sleep and rest: beds, upholstered furniture, cots, mattresses, gradually moving to baseboards, cracks and joints in wooden structures, grooves for fittings. Anything that can be promoted is untwisted and processed. We also process carpets (on both sides), all decorative elements, cracks in the parquet, peeling wallpaper, loggias and balconies, and also create a barrier (by processing furniture legs), upon crossing which bloodsuckers will be doomed to death. Since the preparation "HECTOR" is highly effective enough - there is no need to spray it all over the floor, it is enough to treat the surfaces as indicated above.
The first person to use an insecticide was Aristotle. In his writings, he described how you can get rid of lice with the help of sulfur.

Analyze the content of reviews correctly

First, they must be different. Reviews are left by different people - literate, and not very, chatty, and laconic, impressionable and impenetrable. Accordingly, reviews from them should be both short and long, some with details, others without them, some good, others not very good, some with gratitude, others with complaints. This variety is natural and most likely confirms the naturalness of the reviews.

If all reviews are similar to each other, all are written according to the same scheme, all have approximately the same volume, and even more so are written in the same language, then they are most likely written by one person or one group of people, or under the control of one person, and about any naturalness there can be no question of them. And it is impossible to assess the quality of the service's work based on such reviews.

Plus another useful nuance, like searching for prices in reviews. Look in the reviews for descriptions of any nuances and subtleties of pest control that are not obvious to those who have not encountered pest control. This can be a description of the equipment at the exterminator, an indication of the name of the product, some professional tricks that the exterminator told the person during processing, a story about the thorough disassembly of furniture throughout the house, impressions of the same cold fog and a description of the generator.

A third-party author to order such things in the review will not indicate, because he does not know about them, and the exterminators themselves, when they come up with reviews from themselves, do not indicate these nuances either because they do not consider them important (they have a professional blurred look), or because that do not want to share these subtleties (for example, the names of drugs). If there are such nuances in the review, it increases the likelihood that the review is natural.

And mistakes in reviews, which professionals will not allow, also indicate that it was not the exterminator himself who wrote such a review. For example, if a specialist is called a “disinfector” in a review, or a hot fog - smoke, gas or gas treatment, then such a review was written exactly by a person far from disinfestation. Whether it was a real client, or a custom-made author - you still need to figure it out, but at least this was not written by an expert.

How to choose the right product

Before purchasing a powder for combating parasites, you need to accurately determine that it is bed bugs that have started up at home. Signs of the presence of insects:

• Bites on the body. They look like large red blisters, accompanied by itching and swelling.
• Waste bugs are brown grains.
• Blood stains on the bed, they appear when a person crushes bed bugs at night.
• An unpleasant odor is felt in places where insects are suspected.

Bedbug bites are often confused with allergies.

Bedbugs can also be found in the bed frame - their most common habitat.

Bedbugs can often be seen in furniture, crevices and cracks.

Once you are sure that bedbugs visit you at night, you can purchase powder. Dust buying tips:

• Take contact action dust, otherwise it will be useless.
• Choose the brand that suits the price.
• Despite the fact that dust is consumed economically, it is necessary to calculate how much is needed to process the entire area. A one-room apartment will take 4–5 bags of 50 grams each.

Read the information on the package carefully. If there are small children or pets in the house, then not all dusts will work. Some of them are toxic.

Keep an eye on the accounts of people who leave reviews

There are several signs that the account on the social network or on Otzovik is fake.

1. The photo of the account belongs to some celebrity.
2. The account is empty. In addition to a few reviews, there is nothing in it and it is likely that it was created specifically for the publication of these few reviews.
3. Some obvious contradictions. For example, the place of residence of the author of the review is Krasnoyarsk, and the review was written about pest control in St. Petersburg, or the account of a stern man-powerlifter is filled with advertising for women's cosmetics, among which a review about pest control against bedbugs suddenly pops up.
4. Advertising is constantly published in the account, that is, the owner does not hesitate to post paid posts and links on his wall. In the same way, he will not disdain to compose a review of a fictional fight against bedbugs.

That is, it is worth trusting reviews from real people with real photos in the account, with an actively filled account in general, in which, in general, there is not a lot of advertising and there are no obvious inconsistencies.

In general, evaluate all information about the company as a whole. If there is no other information besides reviews, think about why it is not there. Remember that testimonials are only a fraction of the information available to you about a service, just a piece of the puzzle that forms a reputation. And these reviews should influence your decision as much as they help you get an idea of ​​the company's work. Therefore, look at each company as a whole, at its work, at its activity, at the materials that it offers and publishes, at its openness and openness of its team, and only on the basis of such a general assessment, choose a reliable exterminator. This will help you kill bed bugs quickly and save you time, money and hassle.

Effective methods of dealing with bed bugs

Even if the bites are not disturbing, bedbugs can be detected quite unexpectedly right during the cleaning. If you disturb their daytime peace in places of accumulation, then they will begin to creep in different directions. In the same place, white larvae, similar to rice, will remain in the nest. Bed bugs reproduce very quickly. If you do not want your sofa to turn into a den of parasites, and it was impossible to sleep in the apartment, you should immediately get rid of bed bugs.

During their evolution, these insects managed to adapt to many chemicals. They quickly develop immunity. Therefore, once proven drugs in one case may well turn out to be inactive in another. Modern remedies include chemicals and insecticides, which are aimed at infecting and killing insects. They are sprayed onto surfaces and places where parasites accumulate.

Most of them are characterized by an unpleasant smell of poisons, which is dangerous not only for insects, but also for humans. When using such drugs, a respirator and gloves should be worn. But in the competition for a buyer, some companies have developed insecticides with pleasant aromas or none at all.

Modern means of combating bed bugs also include techniques that are often used by pest controllers. This is the application of hot or cold air. This technology is due to the fact that bed bugs do not tolerate very high and too low temperatures. Therefore, the room is temporarily "frozen" or doused with hot air.

The most popular methods are the use of industrial alcohol or kerosene. But they can only temporarily neutralize parasites or have a preventive effect.

Unfortunately, from such methods, only the residents of the house will suffer, who will have to endure an unpleasant smell for a long time. The fact is that kerosene or denatured alcohol acts on bedbugs only if you pour them thoroughly and for a long time. For the method to be effective, you literally have to "redeem" your dear home in technical alcohol or kerosene.

Moreover, modern drugs, for example, such as Executioner, Combat, Get, Delta-Zone, win in terms of effectiveness. More affordable Karbofos.

Knowing the weaknesses of bloodsuckers, you can fight them, scare them away, or, at least, stretch out for some time until the exterminator arrives. So, what scents are bed bugs afraid of?

• 
  Wormwood and tansy. These are the most famous herbs that repel bedbugs with their smell. They are used as a preventive measure to protect the house from the infestation of bedbugs. And if the parasites have already settled in your house, then grass brooms are laid out under furniture, including under the bed, hung on the windows, and placed on balconies. But this will only stop the bloodsuckers for a few days. When they get hungry, they will no longer be afraid of wormwood.

• Perfumes. Bedbugs do not tolerate perfume odors. It is known that at one time the court ladies and nobles literally bathed in perfume and doused themselves with colognes before going to bed so that they would not be bitten by bedbugs at night. But with severe hunger, insects will ignore this dislike.
• Chemistry. Means that repel insects are acetone, vinegar, turpentine, denatured alcohol, kerosene, ammonia. If you have processed the room and you smell one and the repellents, it means that the bugs will definitely not like this situation. But it is not very pleasant for a person to be in such conditions. Although, as a last resort, it is better than being bitten by bedbugs.

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Effective methods of dealing with bedbugs include:

• The use of modern insecticidal preparations. They are aerosols, dilution concentrates or powder. The most effective are those preparations that leave microparticles on the paws of insects that infect relatives. Such products guarantee a long-lasting effect and get rid of insects forever.
• Temperature methods. Bedbugs are afraid of cold and heat. This is used by pest controllers. This method may cost more than other drugs, but it is reliable and absolutely safe for the human body.

You can try to scare off bedbugs using perfume, kerosene or twigs of wormwood and tansy, as many summer residents do. But this is all temporary. If the bugs do not find another victim, they will definitely return. You will spend more nerves and strength, and parasites will literally survive you from home. After all, you don't really want to spend the night in an apartment that is teeming with hungry bugs.

The optimum air temperature for the life and reproduction of bedbugs is within plus 20-30 degrees. Any other temperature regime is uncomfortable for these insects, especially if it is set for a long time. But, to expel bedbugs from the house, you need to create a lower or higher temperature regime for several days.

In winter, you can open the windows and let the frosty air into the apartment for 2-3 days. But raising the temperature to 40 degrees is very problematic. It is easier to take blankets, pillows and mattresses out of the house in the summertime, fry them in the sun in calm weather.

There are many myths about the fears of bedbugs, allegedly they do not tolerate certain foods or certain devices.

Let's figure out where the truth is, and where is the lie, and what insects are definitely not afraid of (in any case, this does not work effectively on large masses of insects).

Special studies were carried out, as a result of which it was possible to find out that high-frequency sounds do not have any negative effect on bedbugs. And the insect does not hastily leave its nest and does not die in terrible agony.

Despite the advice of folk craftsmen, by periodically wet cleaning with this water, you will only clean up the house and get rid of the dirt. But bed bugs, as they lived in your house, will continue to live peacefully in it.

Manufacturers of ultrasonic devices began to actively switch to it, after the buyers who used them became more and more convinced of the uselessness of ultrasound in the fight against bedbugs.

In truth, the magnetic field can actually have a positive effect, making bedbugs get out of your territory. But for this, the power must be so strong that the owner of the apartment cannot withstand it.

Conspiracies and prayers

“Methods for the lazy” will not work either, when they recommend reading special conspiracies, prayers, which today are used only by people in deep provinces.

Believe me, while you are fighting bed bugs in such senseless and humane ways, they will multiply and infect your home more and more.

The ancestors of bed bugs have lived for thousands of years in caves next to humans, so conditions that are too hot and cold are unacceptable for them.

If it is colder or hotter, then insects will not be able to reproduce normally and will begin to look for more suitable conditions for life. When the temperature drops, they can fall into suspended animation - a sleepy state. If the temperature reaches 48 ° and continues to rise, then the bugs will not survive and will die.

The fear of high temperatures allows you to effectively deal with bedbugs. Previously, the places of their accumulation were scalded with boiling water, now you can use a steam generator. Having treated furniture and all cracks in the apartment with a jet of hot steam, you will destroy parasites without the use of toxic substances. They will die almost instantly.

In the northern regions, bedbugs are sometimes disposed of by freezing the room. But there are several conditions here. The ambient temperature should be low enough (-15 ° and below). All nooks and crannies in the apartment should freeze, since the bugs can safely hide and wait out the cold snap.

For normal life of bed bugs, a temperature of 20-30 ° C is needed. In the matter of exposure to temperature of bedbugs, it should be remembered that boundary values ​​cannot be adhered to. So at 10 ° C or 35 ° C, insects experience only discomfort. Therefore, you should either raise or lower the temperature to critical indicators for them, or do not take this method at all.

Below 10 ° C and above 35 ° C - this is what bed bugs are afraid of. In such an environment, they cannot reproduce and instincts work. However, this method has a significant drawback - temperature drops should not be allowed, otherwise the bugs will get used to it. To expel insects, you need to keep the temperature below 10 ° C or above 35 ° C for at least a few days, which is not only a technical problem, but also a danger for repairs, furniture and appliances.