Usually, people always try to keep silent about such misfortunes as house bugs. However, like head lice, bed bugs are considered an indicator of untidiness and negligence of a person. Although the fact of the presence of parasites, both on the body and in the apartment, if it reflects the social qualities of people, it is very indirect.
Suppose a situation arises when excellent relations develop between neighbors, which in itself is also rare in our time, and they transmit information that one of them has bed bugs in the house. What should be done in this case?
And the second option - it became noticed that bugs were crawling from neighbors, say, through the ventilation holes, and an attempt to clarify the relationship in this matter led only to an exclusion and the development of a scandal. What to do in this case? Where to complain if the neighbors have bugs?
We will consider these and other questions in this material, the essence of which is only one thing - how to prevent the multiplication of parasites in your apartment, because it is known that in this case it will be very problematic to remove them.
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.
Important!
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
Tips on how to protect your apartment if your neighbors have bed bugs
In recent years, an invasion of bloodsuckers has been celebrated all over the world. They attack people in their homes. They travel with their victims on airplanes and trains. You cannot hide from them, neither in a modest home, nor in a five-star hotel. These lines are not the beginning of a script for a thriller.
A vampire has indeed stuck to humanity. His name is bed bug.
Can these parasites come from neighboring apartments and what to do if the neighbors have bloodsuckers, but they do not poison them, how to protect themselves - read on.
- Alarming signs
- How to understand that they came from a neighboring apartment?
How to protect yourself if bloodsuckers are not poisoned nearby and are not poisoned?
- Where to go if insects appear?
- How to protect your home?
How can insects get to you?
There are many ways that lead a bloodsucker to our home:
- Inherited from the previous owners of the premises.
- They moved to us together with old furniture, paintings, framed photographs.
- They turned out to be an unpleasant addition to the donated parrot in a luxurious cage with nooks and crannies.
- Brought to the house from the trip, in a suitcase.
- Crawling away from neighbors.
Alarming signs
It is very important to pay attention in time to the signs of the appearance of these insects in the apartment, because the earlier you start the fight with the enemy, the easier it is to defeat him.
The breeding rate of bedbugs is phenomenal. One female lays up to fifteen eggs a day. From each testicle, a larva is obtained, which in appearance resembles an adult. She should eat at least once every four days. And the vampire will receive this food at the expense of the owner of the apartment and his household.
How to understand that unwanted guests have visited you:
- After sleep, a person discovers bite marks on the body.
In a quarter of the population, a bug bite does not cause any physiological reaction, except for disgust. The rest were much less fortunate. Allergic manifestations can range from a line of small red spots to itchy blisters the size of a coin. Bedbugs especially prefer the delicate skin of children and women. - Bloody traces of insects accidentally crushed in a dream remain on the bedding.
- On the wall, under the bedside carpet or panel, small dark spots are visible.
- In upholstered furniture, bedside tables, under skirting boards or peeling wallpaper, in any secluded corner, you can find a colony of bed bugs. They do not tolerate places where light falls, so carefully examine all the dark nooks and crannies and see adult critters and their larvae.
- The bug protects its territory with a pungent smell. Therefore, start worrying and go in search of a den as soon as you feel an unusual aroma for your apartment.
How to understand that they came from a neighboring apartment?
There was a big trouble - you found bedbugs. And you know for sure that none of the family members traveled, new items did not appear in your home, and they could only get to you from your neighbors. To act decisively further, you need to understand - THE PRESENCE OF BLOCKS IS NOT RELATED TO CLEANLINESS.
Excessive delicacy in this case can do a disservice. Good neighbors will be grateful to you for the warning, and bad neighbors will be easier to deal with with the whole world.
Bedbugs easily move along the communications of an apartment building. The walls are not an obstacle for them, because due to the small size, the insect travels through ventilation holes, joint outlets, crevices near water and heating pipes, etc. There is evidence that these insects are able to settle in a standard nine-story building in only three summer months.
How to protect yourself if bloodsuckers are not poisoned nearby and are not poisoned?
Living in an urban, typical, multi-storey building, we sometimes do not know the people who live outside the wall. Or, on the contrary, we know very well that there is a “bad apartment” at the entrance. The first suspicions of a breeding ground for infection will fall precisely on the disadvantaged tenants. And it is possible that it will not be possible to agree with them on the sanitary treatment of the premises. Probably, these people can promise you to do everything possible, but do nothing, or do not complete all the activities.
In another situation, bedbugs can run over to you from neighbors who are fighting with them in order to escape from destruction. Therefore, without wasting time, in our own home we seal all the cracks with a sealant, alabaster, any suitable material. Don't forget about ventilation and common electrical outlets.
ATTENTION! It doesn't matter what kind of people live near you when it comes to bed bug infestation. The main thing is to isolate your apartment from insects as much as possible and start a joint fight. Where to go if insects appear?
Where to complain if bloodsuckers climb to you from your neighbors; can we ask the management company to rid us of harmful insects?
The answer is "yes" if it is explicitly stated in your agreement with the Criminal Code. But there is one unpleasant nuance here - the company's area of responsibility includes only the common building territory. Everything that starts from the threshold of the apartment is our concern.
Bedbugs will settle in the entrance last. And only if it is a comfortable, warm room, provided that there are so many of them that there is no place in the apartments for creating new nests. This insect prefers to live next to the feeder - in a person's bed or very close to it. Let's remember its name - BED BREAKER.
The main benefit from the involvement of the management company in the treatment of the entrance with chemical means will be in broadly informing residents that there is an unpleasant problem in the house.
Write a statement to the Criminal Code, with a link to the current contract and ensure that this organization fulfills its responsibilities. The more such requests are received from the residents of the house, the faster the entrance will be processed.
Involvement of the police for the reasoning of negligent tenants - bug-lovers, as a rule, are ignored. Appeals to the regional SES are usually also ineffective. At best, they will give you advice on how to remove parasitic insects and provide you with the necessary chemicals.
How to protect your home?
There is no point in wasting precious time on clarifying the question - "why do we need this?" and "who should poison bedbugs?" As long as we think, critters breed.
We immediately perform the following steps:
- We inform all tenants. We post a short notice at the entrance - “IN THE HOUSE OF KLOPA! TAKE ACTION! " This will serve as a sufficient signal to all those who are not indifferent. Most will turn over their apartments and process them for prevention.
- We write applications from most apartments to the management company (MC).
- If the Criminal Code does not help to resolve the issue, we contact the Housing Inspectorate. In the statement, we set out the essence of the problem that violates our civil rights.
- We write complaints:
- to the State Center for Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance. We demand to take measures against negligent neighbors, due to the danger of an epidemic (AIDS, hepatitis, etc.), from the dominance of blood-sucking insects;
to Rospotrebnadzor with a request to conduct a sanitary and epidemiological examination of a "bad" apartment.
IMPORTANT! We send all appeals to the supervisory authorities by registered mail with notification. We keep copies of our letters and the received answers for further actions.
Not a single living creature can live for a long time where they are constantly trying to kill him. Deprive the bedbugs of peace and comfort, and victory in this difficult struggle will be yours.
Bedbug migration routes
It is almost impossible to protect yourself from the invasion of uninvited guests. And not because the house or apartment is not kept in perfect order - it does not matter at all. Bedbugs are not bred in dirty rooms, although it is easier for them to find a secluded corner there, but they follow people to their homes in various ways:
- through apartment communications;
- moving from neighbors;
- in things and bags that have been in places infected with parasites;
- through old furniture or bedding;
- on pet hair.
How to identify the source of bedbugs
Bedbug bites
If suspicious black dots appeared on the wallpaper, walls, under the carpet or smeared traces of blood on the sheet, and in the morning it seems that an allergy, since whole paths of itchy red spots have formed on the body, we can safely say that bedbugs have come to the apartment. Feverishly start to think: what to do. The source of infection can be both you and your neighbors.Quickly analyze the latest events in your home:
- Did any of the inhabitants of the apartment go on business trips, on vacation with a stop at a hotel, motel;
- whether new or used furniture, mattresses, blankets, things were bought;
- whether guests came to the apartment with an overnight stay;
- whether places with possible infection with parasites were visited;
- whether the dog has brought a bloodsucker in the fur.
If the answers to all questions turned out to be negative, only one conclusion suggests itself: bugs climb from neighbors.
Insect control methods
Now it becomes clear that it is difficult to protect yourself from bedbugs, but still it is worth trying to do it. Insects can only bite at night. You need to be able to defend yourself, so for some time you can get up between two in the morning and five in the morning, turn on the lights in the apartment and examine the bed to understand: mosquitoes or bedbugs bite.
A specific aroma, similar to the smell of sour raspberries, shells after molting and the accumulation of black dots on furniture, linen or under wallpaper are clear signs of bedbugs. If these parasites are found in the house, then the question of how to protect yourself from bedbugs becomes especially relevant.
Professional processing
In Moscow and in other large cities, there are special services that deal with issues of prevention and disinsection. They will propose a way to treat housing, depending on the degree of its contamination. It is only necessary to prepare the room in advance for the work of pest controllers: pack toys and dishes, remove food, and most importantly, do not stay in the apartment after pest control for a day or several hours. During this time, all chemicals will have time to disappear.
Feedback
Why bugs started up in a friend's dacha remained a mystery, because the house was empty for a long time. She found the address of the nearest SES on the Internet and asked for pest control and prophylaxis. The service arrived quickly. We did the treatment for about an hour. The bugs disappeared and never reappeared. Still, you need to entrust this business to professionals.
Tatiana, Moscow
Protection from bedbugs at home and prevention can be carried out on your own. In this case, you need to be patient and get some information about modern insecticides and the rules for their use in the apartment. They will be quite effective if the instructions are followed strictly. All these funds must have a contact effect and stay on surfaces that have been treated for a long time.
These modern substances include:
- powdered dusts;
- spraying agents;
Sprays for bedbugs - gels and pastes;
- insecticidal crayons, pencils;
- microencapsulated drugs with a restraining barrier effect.
You just need to remember that when working with insecticidal preparations, you must use protective equipment: masks, gloves, special clothing.
Feedback
Bedbugs appeared in the apartment. Noticed at night on a child's handle. The next day, we went to the nearest household chemicals store and asked what we could take to get the bugs out. True, they did not say that it was with us. It was somehow embarrassing. The seller advised to take the drug Clean House: it is easy to process and the effect is good. Sprinkled in the apartment wherever they could. We went to the village for a few days to certainly exterminate these parasites. After returning, we carried out cleaning and maintenance as indicated in the instructions. More bugs are not visible yet, I hope that we said goodbye to them forever.
Olga, Bryansk
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Preventive measures
The most effective way to prevent bed bugs is to close possible ways for insects to enter the house. Only then can other chemical protection against bedbugs be used. For prevention, the same drugs are used as for pest control.
When the access to the dwelling is closed for parasites, topical application of long-acting insecticides will give excellent results. Modern tools are divided into three types:
- deterrent drugs;
- effective insecticides;
- folk recipes for dealing with bedbugs.
When to do prevention
It is not at all necessary that prophylaxis against bedbugs should be carried out when they are found.
Home protection from the penetration of blood-sucking insects should be in the following cases:
- upon returning home after a long absence (vacation, business trip, hospital treatment);
- moving to a new place of residence;
- the end of the term for renting an apartment by temporary guests, their departure;
- detection of blood-sucking insects from neighbors.
Prevention of bedbugs in an apartment is a measure of protection from unexpected "guests", therefore, it should be carried out periodically, because this will protect yourself and your loved ones from the risk of infection with infections carried by parasites.
