Bedbugs from neighbors

How to pinpoint migrations of neighbor bed bugs

If neighbors have bugs, most often they do not advertise such a neighborhood. People often deny that harmful insects are in their apartment, and bed bugs are no exception. There are certain signs that help to clarify by the method of elimination where the blood-sucking "lodgers" came from:

there are no pets capable of bringing insects from the street;
households have not gone anywhere in recent months;
new, old furniture did not appear in the house and was not purchased;
people living in the apartment did not visit the premises where there were parasites, because bedbugs can be found in the hospital, in the hotel, and other public places;
the smell of chemicals is felt in the entrance, which indicates attempts to destroy bedbugs in the neighboring apartment, which can go through the cracks to look for a new place of residence.

What to do if neighbors poison bedbugs - in such a situation, the owner of the apartment will definitely come to the conclusion that dangerous individuals lived with one of the neighbors and think about how to protect his apartment from uninvited "guests" and make it safe.

The more numerous the population of "bloodsuckers" in a nearby apartment, the higher the likelihood that bugs crawl away from neighbors and in search of new victims migrate through pipes, cracks to other households.

Features of the parasite

Since the main food is human blood, the bugs try to settle near the place that is closest to their source of life. You can usually find nests in upholstered furniture, books, in beds under mattresses, in parquet slots, behind baseboards, on the back walls of furniture, behind carpets, and even in electronic equipment.

Bed bugs

Bed bugs are night hunters, so it is very difficult to find them in the apartment during the day. They behave very actively from two to five in the morning, since a person cannot defend themselves during sleep. Very rarely, the victim can feel a bug bite: during the puncture of the skin with its proboscis, the insect injects a substance that prevents blood from clotting and has an analgesic effect.

During the day, one female bug can lay up to five eggs.

Over the entire period of its life, a female is able to lay about 500 eggs. It is enough for a bloodsucker to feed on blood once every 5-7 days. Insects are very sensitive to environmental conditions:

the optimal temperature for their existence should be in the range of 18-25 degrees;
at very high and very low air temperatures, they die.

Bed bug eggs

Detection of bedbugs in the living area

Finding bedbugs in the apartment

First of all, the landlord must make sure that house bugs are parasitizing, and not other blood-sucking insects. Only after that is it worth thinking about where to go if there are bugs in the apartment. Knowing that "bloodsuckers" go hunting at night, it is necessary to inspect the premises and pieces of furniture during the day to find bedbug nests:

the most common place where bedbugs hide is upholstered furniture, mattresses, beds, a sofa;
you need to carefully examine the pieces of peeled wallpaper on the wall and hanging photo frames, paintings;
another favorite place is the home library, where the twilight and the presence of paper attract parasites;
cracks and cracks in the walls, floor;
joints and details in wooden furniture, especially standing near the bed;
cracks between the frames of wooden windows, doors;
occasionally they settle in old electrical equipment (TVs, radios).

In all these places, it is necessary to look not only for the insects themselves, but also for traces of their presence: black dots of excrement, discarded chitinous shells, white eggs glued to furniture, nymphs at different stages of development. Typical signs of bedbugs are bites and a specific smell.

Bedbugs feed on human blood and have existed since ancient times, mention of them can be found in the writings of Aristotle, Pliny. They moved to the American continent together with emigrants from Europe arriving on ships, and came to Asia in the 19th century. with Russian merchants.

Bedbug control rules

Destruction of bedbugs in the house

If there is a suspicion that bedbugs live with neighbors, that nests of parasites are found in your own apartment, you should immediately begin to fight them, not postponing the solution of the problem "for later." After all, the "guests" will continue to run regularly between neighbors until the residents figure out what to do and how to destroy them by joint efforts.

Most often, insects can move from the neighbors of the lower floor through cracks, water pipes, they can move between rooms in a communal apartment. In such a situation, it is better to know that you can complain about the poor sanitary condition of the apartment to the city services of the SES.

Basic rules for dealing with parasites:

bugs multiply quickly, so you should immediately decide on the date of the start of pest control;
the most optimal solution in such a situation: to cooperate with neighbors and call professionals who will sanitize several apartments at the same time;
carry out self-pest control at home using insecticidal preparations.

In response to people's questions about where to complain if the owners of an infected apartment refuse to carry out treatment, we can recommend: contact the local SES service, which has the right to check the premises for the presence of parasitic fauna and force its inhabitants to poison all pests. There are such organizations in Moscow and other cities of Russia.

No one is immune from such problems, bedbugs can appear in absolutely any house where people sleep, regardless of the well-being of residents and sanitary conditions. Having started this process, over time, it can result in a real disaster! Having tried many different means, people resort to extreme measures: they take furniture out of the house, allowing insects to scatter up the staircase.

Apartment buildings, especially old buildings, are integral structures connected by a network of communications - water supply and sewerage, heating, electricity and ventilation. The smallest crevices formed over time, imperceptible at first glance, also represent an excellent opportunity for the development of new territories by bedbugs.

Inveterate migrants, they will not miss an opportunity to make a sortie outside the colonies, even if they are not in danger at home. The incredible reproduction rate instinctively pushes them to search for new sites, if conditions are favorable for that. Well, with open aggression in the form of large-scale persecution, the transition of the surviving individuals to neighboring apartments is simply inevitable. One female, who has been in contact with a male for the only time in her life, can carry his seed in her womb until the right moment for several months. So an increase in the population of migrated individuals will do without mating periods.

In our practice, there have often been cases when the owners have already come to terms with bedbugs, live with them in the neighborhood, periodically poisoning them with dichlorvos.From poor-quality processing, bugs climb up the walls, leaving nests under the ceiling, in sockets, behind the wallpaper. Nothing prevents them from penetrating the wall into the neighboring apartment, it's a matter of time.

Bed bugs are nocturnal. They are extremely resourceful and move quickly, remaining unnoticed. The main points of penetration: vents, openings for sockets, risers, pores and microcracks in the plinth area. Often people living in such conditions flatly deny the presence of pests.

Preventing the appearance of bedbugs in your apartment

Prevention of the appearance of parasites

In a situation where there are no parasites in the apartment yet, you should know how to protect yourself from their penetration. To prevent bugs from neighbors from crawling into the apartment, preventive measures should be taken:

fill up the cracks with mortar, after redecorating, or using a sealant, in order to protect yourself from the invasion of "bloodsuckers";
to protect yourself from bedbugs, it is recommended to put plants and substances in the ventilation ducts that scare away bedbugs: bunches of wormwood and tansy, other odorous herbs, kerosene, acetone, turpentine, vinegar, ammonia;
call specialists, carry out a barrier disinsection, in the process of which the walls are processed around the perimeter of the room, in order to avoid the penetration of pests when they climb from the neighbors; special poisonous substances in the composition of repellents will scare away insects and will not let them come closer than 5 m from the apartment. The service life of the protection is 1 year.

Prevent invasion

Having carried out all the necessary measures for the destruction of insects, you need to take care of the inviolability of your home.

This implies, ideally, a full-fledged renovation in the apartment, but in practice it is enough to take some measures:

cover all cracks, cracks in the walls, joints with the ceiling and floor with high-quality building materials;
pay special attention to sewage pipes, heating and water supply using the same solution;
small openings or voids can be closed with construction foam or sealing paste;
ventilation, as the most accessible route for migrants, needs to be “mined” with insect repellent drugs.

The aliens can be scared away by the pungent smell of kerosene, turpentine, vinegar or ammonia, which they hate. You can use aromas of herbs that are not so disgusting for humans, but no less poisonous to insects, for example, tansy or wormwood.

Such measures are called by the professional term - "barrier protection", and if the procedure was carried out by the special services, then they will use their drugs as preventive measures. As a rule, these are more reliable and less smelly products. These include sustained-release microencapsulated insecticides. That is, work for the future, and if by some miracle, after processing, extremely tenacious insect eggs remain in the house, they will die.

The principle of action of such funds is in the long-term preservation of their toxic properties, which will not fail to affect the larvae that hatch from the eggs after the attack.

“If the apartment has an old, beloved, parquet, perhaps it is worth saying goodbye to it. The gaps in it and the cavities under it are a cozy place for bugs, larvae and eggs "

How to protect your home

If the neighbors have bedbugs, the question arises of how to protect their apartment, because processing their own housing is not enough. Bloodsuckers move from one room to another and soon the parasites will come again. To protect yourself when the neighbors have bugs, you can join forces, this is the best way to eliminate insects.

The faster the actions take place, the more likely it is to get rid of the bloodsuckers quickly... Bedbugs multiply rapidly, delay will give a head start to infect a significant area.

The harassment is carried out with purchased means or the appropriate services are called in. For disinsection, drugs are purchased that kill parasites.Insecticides will solve the problem in a matter of days.

Repellents help in the fight against enemies, but their disadvantage is that the drugs are not able to destroy bedbugs, they are designed to scare away insects and possibly return after weathering the agent.

It is advisable to take repellents for prophylaxis after mass persecution with insecticides. Spicy herbs are ineffective. Their task is to scare away bloodsuckers, but when the aroma is weakened, the parasites return.

What to do

The appearance of small bloodsuckers among neighbors will already be a reason to take certain actions to protect your own apartment:

Talk to neighbors. It is necessary to find out exactly which of them had bedbugs, and this is quite problematic, because not everyone is recognized.
Contact government agencies (see below for where exactly).
Protect your own apartment from pests.

The sooner the appropriate actions are taken, the sooner it will be possible to get rid of insects and protect their rights and interests, as well as prevent an unpleasant neighborhood.

Effective insecticides

To eliminate infection at home, powerful insecticides are used. These measures allow you to quickly eliminate parasites. But the question arises about protection from bedbugs if they settled with neighbors, because then the disinfestation of one apartment does not guarantee one hundred percent result. It is best to negotiate with your neighbors and carry out the bullying at the same time.

The choice of insecticides is huge, you can buy preparations in the form of a spray, aerosol, crayon, powder, emulsion, in the form of a trap. Sprays and aerosols are popular. This is due to the way the chemical is fed.

Even the most difficult-to-access substances are processed by the extensive atomization of microparticles under the force of pressure.

The drug Executioner. Kills adults and their eggs. The disinfectant does not require re-treatment, one episode of bullying is enough. To prepare the solution, the concentrate is diluted with water in accordance with the instructions. The resulting mixture is sprayed near sofas, mattresses, beds, near skirting boards, crevices in the floor. The executioner attracts pests with the smell, provoking them to come into contact with the particles of the drug. Fenthion, present in the composition, acts on the nervous system of bloodsuckers and kills insects. Before using the insecticide, you must protect yourself by wearing a respirator, gloves, and goggles. During processing and for several days after, there should be no residents of the house and pets in the room.
Cucaracha. The drug is recognized by the pest control services. It is very toxic, therefore, when processing, a respirator, goggles, gloves must be worn on the body, and households must leave their home for a while. Cucaracha is found in the form of an emulsion, powder. The liquid preparation is intended for the preparation of an aqueous solution, and the dry one is distributed throughout the apartment in its original form. When disinfesting carpets, the powder is left for several days after which the pile is vacuumed. Wet cleaning in the apartment is done after 6-7 days.
Suspension Get. The main substance is chlorpyrifos. Small granules fall on the body of the bug and poison not only the host, but also other parasites that are near the victim. To obtain a solution, the suspension is diluted with water 1:14.
Combat. Pyrethroids in the composition of the drug cause paralysis and death in bloodsuckers. All possible places for the localization of bedbugs are treated with an aerosol. For humans, the insecticide is low toxic. The disadvantage of the choice is the high cost of the product.
Fufanon. The emulsion contains malathion. The diluted drug is sprayed on all the habitats of the bug. The tool is cheap and effective.

Time is precious

It is important to establish the source of the appearance of insects in order to properly plan further actions to get rid of, and not to drive the insects from place to place. The steps should be swift, since time is working for bedbugs, and every day the procedure for their destruction will become more and more costly and large-scale.Discussing the difficulties encountered and methods of solving them with neighbors will help to cope with the problem faster and cheaper.

Even if it turns out that the neighbors do not have bugs and did not have them, you need to warn about the likelihood of their appearance as a result of your actions. Therefore, it is better to solve the problem together and with the involvement of special services. SES Services is just the option that is needed in such conditions. Professional work will not only save the owners of an infected apartment from parasites, but will also protect their neighbors from "refugees", tightly blocking the escape routes with special means. When eliminating the focus, prevention and barrier protection in adjacent rooms will avoid headaches in the future.

It is much more difficult when the sanitary and hygienic conditions suit the neighbors, and they do not want to make contact. Defending your legitimate interests, you have the right to go to court, demanding that the living quarters be brought in accordance with sanitary standards. The operation of residential premises that do not meet sanitary and epidemiological requirements threatens with administrative responsibility and a fine from 500 to 1000 rubles.

Prevention of the appearance

When treating bedbugs, do not forget what must be done to prevent infection of the home.

It is impossible to completely eliminate the risk of parasite penetration, but if a number of rules are followed, the return of insects is minimized.

During the trip, they check the sleeping place. Upon arrival, the disassembled things are washed, suitcases and bags are left in the sun or frost.
Drops of essential oils are added to luggage with things. The bright aroma repels pests.
Prevention of the appearance of parasites includes inspection and disinfestation of ventilation. They put a container with essential oil there or put a bunch of tansy, wormwood.
A bunch of spicy grass is kept under the bed, scaring away bloodsuckers.
To prevent pests from entering the apartment, a saucer with essential oils is placed on the owner's things in the corridor.
When bugs crawl from neighbors, it is necessary to make repairs, gaps and possible paths are sealed with a sealant or solution, which will not allow bloodsuckers to overcome the barrier.

If the home is not contaminated

If bugs are not found in your house, but you know for sure that your neighbors have them and can migrate anywhere at any time, you need to do everything to protect yourself and your loved ones. Getting rid of bedbugs is very difficult, so it is better to prepare in advance for their possible appearance in order to prevent them from entering your apartment.

If you know that in the near future, pest control will be carried out at neighbors, and bedbugs can move somewhere, you can contact a special service. At the moment, they have such a service as barrier disinsection, which is carried out specifically for the purpose of prevention. Specialists irrigate the house with a special agent containing substances that repel parasites, as a result of which they do not form a population in your neighborhood. This tool is the most effective, but it is not always possible to use it.

To ensure maximum protection for your home, you can do your own prophylaxis. The necessary actions are simple and do not require large financial costs, so everyone can prevent blood-sucking insects from settling in their apartment.

First of all, you need to block all the paths from where bugs from neighbors can go to your house. The main danger is posed by cracks in the coating, so they all need to be detected and repaired with a sealant. You should not try to fill the holes with improvised means - wooden blocks, plastic, etc.

Pay special attention to the outlets. Parasites can travel anywhere on electrical wiring. At the same time, they can get into your apartment both from the main holes of the socket, and through the gap between it and the wall.Each such space must be eliminated with a sealant, non-combustible polyurethane foam or glass wool. Plugs can be purchased for the main holes.

In addition to isolating all the pathways from where bedbugs can enter your home, it is necessary to regularly wet cleaning, which will create unfavorable conditions for the formation of a colony. When cleaning floors, it is best to add products with a strong pungent odor to the water - bleach, vinegar, ammonia, etc. The main thing in this case is not to overdo it and not damage your own floors if they are unstable to chemicals.

Herbs that can scare away uninvited parasites have proven themselves well, bitter wormwood is especially popular in this regard. You need to pick the stems of this plant, disband them into bunches of several branches and spread them in the corners of the room and, if desired, under the carpets and at the doorstep. In addition, you can make a decoction from wormwood and wash floors with it with the addition of laundry soap.

In addition to folk recipes for scaring off parasites, you can use special means. It is not necessary to carry out a global pest control, as in the case of bedbug baiting. You can use more gentle methods. Powders for bedbugs, pencils (crayons) and products with microgranules that do not leave a smell have proven themselves well.

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Can come from neighbors

When wondering whether bugs can move to an apartment from neighbors, it is worth considering that insects crawl along walls, ceilings and there is a chance.

The ways of penetration of bloodsuckers into the home are:

Introduction of parasites by pets.
Buying old things.
Crawling through an open window in the summer.
Moving bedbugs in your luggage while traveling.

Parasites can remain in the dwelling from the previous owners. If the bloodsucker does not have food, then it is able to fall into suspended animation and can come out of it years later, when a victim appears on its territory. Therefore, before blaming the neighbors, you need to make sure that the infection has arisen because of them.

We solve the problem peacefully

If the owners of the "problem" apartment admitted that they have a breeding ground for insects, but cannot deal with their extermination due to financial difficulties, then you can offer them your help. You can use household bed bug control products or consult a professional. For the effectiveness of the measures taken, it is very important that all apartments in the house are processed. It is known that at the slightest hint of danger and before their death, the bugs secrete special pheromones, which give a signal to the rest of the colony to escape. Only an integrated approach helps to destroy them completely. And thanks to promotions for the treatment of several premises, this service is relatively inexpensive.

If neighbors deny their guilt and refuse to solve the problem, closing the door in front of your nose, then you need to deal with them on a different level.

How to understand that they came from a neighboring apartment

If there is a problem with bloodsuckers, the owners are interested in how to find out if the neighbors have bugs. With a trusting attitude, the neighbors themselves will answer.

Otherwise, the latest events are reviewed, new purchases, recent travels, housing transactions are remembered.

Interested in how to determine that bedbugs are crawling from neighbors, take into account the presence of pets or recent visits to hospitals... If all the reasons do not fit, then most likely the bugs came from the neighbors. It is important to consider the number of bloodsuckers. If neighbors poison bedbugs, then insects quickly spread through apartments and their number will be significant.

How do you know where insects are crawling from?

Most people claim that bed bugs are caused by dirt, but entomologists have denied this claim.

Cockroaches crawl from neighbors - what to do?

There are several options for the appearance of parasites:

The owners of the apartment themselves brought them to their home. These could be insect eggs, or large pests.You can pick up bedbugs on your clothes, after spending the night in a hotel, they brought them into your house through bags and luggage.
Purchase of used furniture, clothes. Of course, this is a convenient and economical, but also the most dangerous way. Here you need to be careful, because any object can be infected with bedbugs. Low likelihood of transporting pests through new furniture and clothing, but there is still a risk. In stores, people sit on furniture, try on clothes, thereby moving bedbugs to new items.
The parasites could be brought into the house by guests, relatives, friends, a plumber, etc. They could have caught bed bugs in vehicles or other infested areas.
It happens that insects live in an apartment for a long time, but do not give themselves away. Parasites can live on the balcony and hibernate. No matter how much they are poisoned, they survive, and in the spring they remind of themselves. If the apartment has been empty for a long time, then as soon as a person drives in, the insects become active.

What places in the apartment can they penetrate

When it is known that neighbors have bugs, it is worth knowing how bloodsuckers penetrate into the home. Usually parasites crawl through cracks, holes, ventilation, doors. Due to the overall dimensions, bloodsuckers crawl into small cracks.

Wondering if neighbors poison bedbugs what to do, it is worth first eliminating the possibility of insects moving into the apartment. To do this, without fail, the cracks are sealed with a sealant or polyurethane foam, and a mesh with small cells is installed in the ventilation ducts.

There they leave a trap for the bug that has overcome the barrier. On the doors, walls and ceiling, you need to draw a line in the form of a chalk with a preparation, especially if windows and a balcony are open in the summer.

Can you complain if neighbors poison insects and they move into your house?

People live in a country where laws and values have not been fully formed.
Unfortunately, there are no articles in the code that could affect such a situation or stop the persecution of parasites.

This means that not a single state service can accept complaints and official statements that bedbugs have appeared in a neighbor's apartment, they are being poisoned, and they run to another apartment.

First of all, you need to talk with your neighbors, peacefully explain the whole situation and invite the entire apartment building to call specialists from the sanitary and epidemiological station. In this case, each person gets out on their own. You can make a scandal, but this will not resolve the situation in any way. The best option is to file a complaint with a specialist, or start poisoning bedbugs on your own.

Where to complain

Interested in what to do if the neighbors have bedbugs, and they do not take measures to eliminate them, it is worth noting that it is easier to talk with people and settle everything peacefully.

When words do not give significant results and the question of where to complain, when bugs remain open for neighbors, you need to write a statement to the appropriate authorities. If this is not done, then the risk of resuming the problem after processing only your apartment is great.

First, you need to call the district police officer, if the explanatory conversation does not give results, then he will tell you where to go if the neighbors have bugs. The next step is the sanitary and epidemiological station. If, after all, it is not possible to agree with the neighbors, then with the recorded violation and a collective complaint, they turn to the prosecutor's office.

Unfortunately, there is no article in the code that would completely regulate this issue. Perhaps there will be conversations with the neighbors or they will simply become ashamed and decide to come to a compromise.

An application to Rospotrebnadzor can help bring neighbors to administrative responsibility or pay a minor fine for violation of sanitary standards. But if the tenants act as full-fledged owners of the apartment, then nothing else can be done against them.

A neighbor in a communal apartment or on a staircase does not want to poison bedbugs

Another major problem with pest control is that your neighbors may not be willing to take action. In this case, it is hardly possible to agree on disinsection collectively without conflicts, and you need to complain to the authorities mentioned above.

Filing a complaint with Rospotrebnadzor or contacting a management company in itself will not force a neighbor to poison bedbugs, however, possible administrative fines for violating sanitary standards may bring him to his senses.

Which authorities to apply to

Having figured out whether it is possible to complain if the neighbors have bugs in the absence of positive shifts, it is worth starting the persecution on their own. For effective treatment, high-quality insecticides are taken.

The most effective place where you can go if the neighbors have bugs is the sanitary service... Representatives of the sanitary and hygienic institution will help to treat the affected area with special means.

Barrier pest control with Klopoveron will protect against bugs, flies and other parasites. It is expensive, but the effect lasts for at least 1 year.

It is better to carry out disinfestation with the whole house or entrance, but if there is no possibility, they process the apartments at will.

You can protect yourself from bedbugs climbing from neighbors by mass pest control, since if you do not treat the infected room, the parasite will return. If neighbors refuse to poison insects, a number of measures are taken to prevent their penetration into the home.

This includes sealing gaps, changing the ventilation mesh, treating possible paths of movement with repellents.... In order to completely get rid of parasites, it is worth negotiating with neighbors and carrying out persecution together with the entire entrance.

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When bedbugs start in one apartment, this can be a problem. whole apartment building... These insects are quite capable of crawling through different holes or crevices between apartments. Especially such activity is noticed in cases when the persecution of the bug is carried out if the rules are not followed - close all passages, holes are hermetically sealed, so that they do not climb to the neighbors, or else to process the moves in each apartment. The responsibility of the neighbors, in whose apartments such nasty things have appeared, is to warn other residents in timethat the baiting of bedbugs will begin soon.

How to write a complaint, sample

If we fail to agree with a neighbor - we write a complaint.

Despite the fact that some state bodies have not established a mandatory application form, Article 7 of the Federal Law "On the Procedure for Considering Applications of Citizens of the Russian Federation" sets requirements. They must be observed when drawing up any complaints, including complaints.

In order to ensure the acceptance and normal consideration of your claim, it must indicate the following:

the name of the body where the appeal is submitted, or the full name of the official, to whom it will be submitted for consideration;
Full name of the sender;
mailing address to which the result of the complaint will be sent;
the reason for the request and a detailed description of the situation;
relevant documents confirming any fact related to the above reason;
date;
personal signature.

The complaint can also be sent in electronic form and in this case it must contain the following information:

Full name of the sender;
e-mail address to which the result of the complaint will be sent;
documents confirming any fact.

Each complaint is individual, as it is compiled for a specific situation. However, you can take a sample and see what elements and where should be located, what to write approximately.

Download the sample complaint from the link.⇐ In fact, it says about noise, but by analogy, you can make your own. Also see our article entirely on unsanitary claims. ⇐

The appearance of bedbugs from neighbors suggests that urgent measures need to be taken to protect their property, and it is important to do this together! After all, these insects cause a lot of inconvenience and are carriers of diseases.

It is advisable to call a special service for baiting both neighbors and your own bugs. If, for some reason, it is impossible to carry out in your situation, then poison the pests only with certified means that are safe for human health. If neighbors refuse to participate in a joint fight against bedbugs, remember that there are legal ways to influence neighbors who have created unsanitary conditions.

Bedbugs from neighbors go to our apartment - what to do, how to protect yourself and how to get rid of bedbugs? - This is how 30% of all telephone calls to our service from citizens of St. Petersburg begin. Let's try to open this topic and answer all the questions in this article.

Is it possible to get bedbugs from neighbors?

On the example of a real appeal to our service: “Hello, it seems to me that bedbugs have started in my apartment. Over the past three weeks, I have noticed some strange bite-like redness on my arms and neck. I know that a neighbor across the corridor had bugs, but they were poisoned in his apartment a week ago. Could his bedbugs have moved into my apartment? What to do and how to get rid of bedbugs now? "

A simple and short answer to the questions - Yes, most likely the bugs came from neighbors, and you can get rid of the bugs by processing yourself or by entrusting this matter to disinfectants.

More recently, we have already considered the addictions of bedbugs to long-distance travel and travel in our article: “10 facts everyone should know about bed bugs", Where they revealed the secret of their way of walking around the planet.

Insect researchers have always guessed that bugs can move between apartments in a house, following cracks and crevices, in walls, through ventilation, and along pipes and electrical wires. In fact, bugs move around the house in the same way as cockroaches, only the size of adult bugs is much smaller than cockroaches, which means that the gap can be much smaller.

Through what places in the apartment can bugs creep from neighbors

Compared to cockroaches, Prusaks and even ants, bedbugs very small insects to size. However, they crawl well, having strong enough paws for this. Their slightly flattened body and small size allows them to penetrate from the next apartment even through barely noticeable cracks... There are several signs that make it possible to determine that the bugs came from the neighbors, which are as follows:

You do not have any pets that from a walk would be able to bring a bug into the house.
You in the last few months did not go on a business trip or on vacation with an overnight stay in hotels.
In the last month or two, no one bought the used one, no new furniture, bedding, second-hand sets, brought home things from someone, and so on.
You have not attended no seatsthat could theoretically or reliably be infested with bedbugs.

Where did you come from?

The discovered unpleasant fact of the presence of these parasites in the apartment poses the first question for the owners - where did they come from.

You can answer it with the exception method:

the house does not contain a dog that would carry him from a walk;
recently, none of the tenants spent the night outside the house;
furniture and bedding were not purchased;
none of the tenants of the apartment visited the places suspected of being infected with bedbugs.
Having excluded the possible self-removal of parasites, it remains to direct the gaze to neighbors
... Relationships between residents of a large house are often difficult, and should not be aggravated by groundless suspicions and accusations. The diplomatic clarification of the circumstances can be facilitated by the characteristic chemical smell in the entrance, which appeared simultaneously with the detection of the invasion.