Tansy from bedbugs: does it help and how to use it

Judging by the stories of people, tansy often helps with bedbugs, than not. It is not possible to determine exactly what percentage of a positive result is. If you don't trust the professionals, then tansy is definitely worth a try. The result will not be worse for sure.

If you live in a private house, and the bugs appeared in the cold season, then the bugs from the smell of tansy simply have nowhere to go. In winter, the bugs try to sit in a warm room, because if the bugs start traveling with your furniture or clothes, wandering from one apartment to another, then on the street they will simply die from the frost.

And, therefore, tansy will not be able to drive out bedbugs for about half of the calendar year. And in order for the tansy to turn from a deterrent into a destructive agent, you need to grind several kilograms of tansy into powder and sprinkle it around. Which is practically impossible at home.

One must also take into account the fact that tansy has been used for several hundred years. There is a chance that your bugs are already adapted to it. The habit of bedbugs begins from about the tenth generation. Modern drugs are used from 30 years to 0. This is also why they are much more effective.

Tansy will work more strongly if it is decomposed before bedbugs appear.

How does tansy work on bedbugs?

First of all, tansy is an effective repellent: its smell repels all kinds of insects, even mosquitoes. Bedbugs are also afraid of this smell.

However, if these parasites are already in the apartment and have established their nests here relatively long ago, it is almost impossible to destroy them with the help of tansy. In order for the bug to die, it must be literally dipped in a decoction of tansy, so that the agent in a concentrated liquid form gets into the insect's body through the respiratory tract (spiracles).

If some surface is simply treated with a decoction, then the bug can run around such places in the house without any harm to itself.

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“We also tried tansy. Does not help. Bedbugs run away from her, but do not die. To crush them with a slipper is lazy, or pour this broth so that they die - it is necessary to flood the neighbors from below. And they put the branches under the bed, it didn't help either. Probably because some of them lived in the bed itself. "
Ilya, Saratov

The use of tansy from bedbugs is effective in order to temporarily weaken their activity. Having felt the smell of this substance in the room, insects for some time (usually up to 3-4 days) will avoid appearing in places where this smell is strongest. However, later they will still get to the person.

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Active struggle with folk methods

The war on bedbugs is a quick process, but quite time consuming. There are a lot of modern insecticides that are capable of destroying insects during the day without leaving a trace of them. But there is one point, bedbugs should be removed only after making sure that they are not in the next apartment.

Bed bugs in the house? Is tansy effective for bedbugs? Now we will try to figure it out.

Among the huge number of methods aimed at destroying bedbugs, there are many that were used by our ancestors. Bedbug tansy is an excellent option.

Tansy: instructions for use against parasites

The use of tansy against bedbugs is quite identical to the use of wormwood for the same purpose. In the simplest version, freshly harvested or already dry twigs of the plant are laid out under the mattress of the bed, in sofas and armchairs, in the corners of the room and under linen cabinets and bedside tables.

If such a shutter from a plant is located between the bedbug shelter and the resting place of people, then until the parasites are very hungry, they will not cross it. However, later they will still decide to break through such a "cordon".

A little more difficult is the use of tansy in the form of a decoction. In this case, a glass of dry grass is boiled for a minute in five liters of water, then cooled.

The decoction is sprayed on the baseboards in the house, parquet, linoleum corners and cracks. Usually, after such treatment, the bugs try to leave the cracks, and already in the open space they can simply be pressed or destroyed by other means.

Of course, tansy has absolutely no effect on eggs of bedbugs.

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“Bedbugs appeared last year in the spring. I don't know where, but there were few of them, and only in the child's room. We did this: we brought the crib to the loggia. Fortunately, the weather allowed. The carpet was removed from the room and taken to the sink. After that, the whole room was literally flooded with a decoction of tansy with wormwood. We bought a kilogram of wormwood and a pound of tansy at the bazaar, boiled it in an enamel bucket, doused all the baseboards, drawers in the closet, and a radiator. The bed itself was also processed, the mattress was thrown out of it, all the diapers were washed in the washing machine at the maximum temperature. You should have seen how the bugs escaped from under the baseboards. The outcome of bedbugs is straightforward. We immediately crushed them all, both large and small. And so - three weekends in a row. And everyone, brought everyone out. But we were lucky that they were in only one room. "
Pavel, Nazarovo

The use of tansy together with industrial insecticides is much more effective. As the second component, you can use any kind of aerosol or concentrate from insects.

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On a note
Another folk remedy for dealing with bedbugs is a tincture of tansy with alcohol. The agent turns out to be both frightening and deadly for bedbugs: alcohol burns the parasites and leads to their death if they come into direct contact with the insect. This infusion was previously recommended to process the found nests and accumulations of bedbugs.

How to use?

On the basis of the plant, the following remedies can be prepared to combat blood-sucking insects:

dry powder,
broth,
essential oil,
tincture.

Each of these techniques has its own pros and cons. Depending on the duration of use of the substance and its insecticidal efficacy, the final result will be determined.

Tansy decoction

To obtain a positive result, tansy decoction should be used for at least two days. It has proven to be insecticidal in terms of sexually mature insects as well as larval species. But, unfortunately, it is absolutely not suitable for the destruction of egg clutches.

Attention! Its peculiarity is that the collection of herbs that are included there are capable of providing a complex antiparasitic effect. It consists of medicinal chamomile, wormwood and tansy.

To prepare the broth, you will need to place 150 grams of each plant in a large saucepan and pour seven liters of boiling water. After that, leave to infuse for an hour. After the product is ready, you can start processing the room. All vertical and horizontal surfaces (including mattresses and shelves in wardrobes) should be wiped or sprayed, do not forget to process corners and other hard-to-reach places, and change bedding for all family members.

Although the broth contains a sufficient level of toxic substances, in order to get rid of the parasite, it must be thoroughly poured with liquid. This condition will contribute to the ingress of poison into the respiratory tract, which means it will cause paralysis in the work of the central nervous system and its vegetative structures. But it is not always possible to achieve this result on your own the first time. What is also important is the freshness of the fluid used. After preparing the broth, it can be stored for no more than one day, otherwise the repellent will not give any result.

Tansy tincture

To prepare it, you need to take twenty-five grams of dried inflorescences (or fifty grams of fresh raw materials) and one hundred grams of medical alcohol. Both ingredients are combined in a glass container and left to infuse in a place that is protected from direct sunlight.

After it is ready, you can start processing. Its scheme is similar to that used in the case of using a decoction. One caveat, the tincture can be stored for a longer time, while it will not lose its antiparasitic properties.

Essential oil

It is usually used as a preventive measure to prevent bed bugs from re-breeding. During wet cleaning, it should be added to the water, at the rate of seven to twenty-five drops per ten liters of water.

Often people note that the plant has an unpleasant, pungent and bitter aroma. To avoid this phenomenon, you can use different aromatic additives in parallel.

Dry grass

Small bunches should be made from it, which will be in a girth of ten to twenty centimeters. After that, they should be spread out in all corners, as well as in those places where bugs can presumably be localized.

Attention! The disadvantage of this technique is that the effect will not be long lasting. At first, the parasites will go away, but since they have a need to get nutrients, then after a short time they will come back. In addition, dry flowers do not exude a poisonous aroma for very long, and insects develop resistance to its low dosages. Accordingly, the result will be noticeable only for the first two days.

Tansy for the prevention of bedbugs entering the house

Tansy is more effective as a prophylactic against bedbugs: with its help, it is quite possible to protect the premises from the penetration of single parasites, for example, from neighbors.

To do this, they usually recommend:

lay out the plant under the mattresses of the bed and in the inner cavities of sofas
add a decoction of tansy to the water used to wash the floors
process ventilation ducts in apartments, external slopes of windows and walls around entrance doors with broth.

With this treatment, cases of bedbugs penetration from neighboring rooms and simply from the street are almost excluded.

Destruction with tansy

The aroma of tansy, like wormwood, is harsh and has an unpleasant odor, which, accordingly, helps to destroy intruders. With its aroma, tansy is a great help against annoying bugs. The mandatory rule should be that the grass must be fresh, that is, smell good. They use this method for destruction and for the purpose of prevention.

Many argue that folk remedies are ineffective, so you should not hope for complete destruction. But the reviews of people who have experienced this remedy say the opposite - tansy from bed bugs still helps.

Could tansy be dangerous?

Generally speaking, tansy is a poisonous plant and some care must be taken when working with it. So, for example, you should keep drugs from it away from children, do not allow the plant to get into cells with domestic rodents.

It is possible to process the places on the body bitten by bugs with a decoction or infusion of tansy only in accordance with the instructions for using these funds.

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“The first thing that came to my mind when the bugs appeared was tansy, but somehow it was scary to handle the whole apartment with it. This is a poisonous plant, even cattle are poisoned with it. But then she made up her mind, cooked the broth, sprinkled everything. For a while they did not bother after that, and then reappeared. Probably, it is necessary to constantly process the apartment with it, but I do not have time for this. Therefore, we planned for ourselves three days off and called the SES. They processed everything, we cleaned the house and left for the dacha. After that, the bugs were gone. "
Nadezhda, Fominskoe

In general, you can not be afraid to use tansy: it is safe to take it with your hands, smell it and use a decoction of it indoors.

Once again, we note that if the bugs are bred in the room, it will not work to remove them with tansy alone - it simply will not act on them like an insecticide. Therefore, initially it is worth focusing on special modern remedies for parasitic insects.

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Other methods of struggle

The range of special tools for effective destruction of bedbugs is huge. All existing methods can be divided into the following groups:

physical;
chemical;
folk;
destruction with the help of special services.

All methods are good, but it is up to the landlord to choose which one to use. This will depend on your financial situation as well as certain circumstances.

If we compare all of the above methods with each other, then we can find out that the destruction of bedbugs with the help of a special service is the most expensive, but also effective, in contrast to the independent expulsion of insects. With a low infection rate, it is possible to cope with such a problem on your own.

But it is worth remembering that whichever method you choose, chemical insecticides are very toxic to humans and can cause a number of allergies and frequent symptoms of the disease!

A frequent occurrence and severe poisoning, they usually occur due to improper use of chemicals and violation of safety measures while working with them. That is why it is strictly forbidden to carry out the destruction of such insects to nursing and in position women, young children and persons prone to allergic reactions.

The use of chemicals

Before applying one of the above methods, you need to know the following:

When processing, it is necessary to use rubber gloves and a cotton-gauze bandage.They will be able to protect the skin of the hands and respiratory tract from the penetration of toxic chemicals into them.
Wear long sleeves before etching!
The head must be protected with a hat (cap, kerchief).
After treatment, go outside, wash your hands and face well with soap and water and change your clothes.

A little about chemicals

There are drugs from both domestic and foreign manufacturers. They differ among themselves not only in price category, names, composition, but also in the form of release (solids, emulsions, solutions, gels and aerosols).

Drugs with minimal toxicity (pyrethroids and phosphorus) are most often used. They have the ability to instantly destroy bedbugs, disintegrate very quickly and be harmless.

Housing treated with such low-toxic agents becomes livable within 2 days.

Select the agent for removing bedbugs as carefully as possible, since the well-known aerosols are impractical due to the fact that insects develop too persistent resistance.

Kerosene with the addition of similar agents

A mixture of kerosene, turpentine and naphthalene is used to treat the nooks and crannies of furniture, floors and baseboards exactly where they usually hide. For such purposes, polyethylene gloves are used, since a mixture of such chemical elements can corrode rubber gloves.

As for upholstered furniture and carpets, you can ruin them with such means. They contain oils that can stain, grease and discolor the upholstery. For upholstery material, usually used technical and ethyl alcohol, acetic acid.

It is recommended to leave the treated room for a day.

Heat treatment

Such insects are able to live at high temperatures. They are quite resistant to low temperatures. If their invasion occurred in winter at a temperature of -30 and -35⁰С, the pieces of furniture can be taken outside for several hours.

According to reviews, heating is much more effective and allows you to quickly destroy pests. This can be dry heat or steam. But there is one "BUT", not all things can be processed using high temperatures. This method is carried out by special services, whose employees use special irradiators, industrial hair dryers and steam generators. A temperature of 100 ° C is capable of destroying even pest eggs.

Summing up, you can find out that, according to reviews, tansy is an excellent remedy for bedbugs.