Why bugs get started in the apartment and how to deal with them correctly

from which bed bugs start in the apartment
From which bed bugs start in the apartment

Hello! My friend Zhenya is an interior designer by profession and, of course, her housing was created entirely by her hands.

Her last creation was an old chest of drawers, which she processed in a special technique, giving it an even more shabby look.

It was to this chest of drawers that her story was dedicated, when the other day I went to visit her. Eugene said that such a plan furniture requires pre-treatment from parasites. Many are surprised at why the bedbugs start up in the apartment, and do not even suspect that they brought them with furniture. Read more about this and other possible options.

Why and from what bugs in the apartment can get: penetration and their habitat

Many mistakenly believe that bed bugs in an apartment are signs not even of the past, but of the century before last. Indeed, in the 70s of the 20th century with the invention of DDT powder, people managed to almost completely expel the parasite from their homes.

But then it turned out that the insecticide is extremely toxic not only to insects, but also to humans. Yes, and events began to occur in the country, because of which it was not time for mass disinfestation of houses. As a result, in our time, parasites again "occupied" the city.

Important!
For some reason, the opinion was rooted that bugs start up exclusively in dirty and neglected rooms. This is a very common myth, which is only partially confirmed.

Indeed, in an apartment in which there was no repair for a long time, bed bugs can find more places for shelters. But even in the most luxurious room, these harmful insects will find where to settle. The main thing is that a food source is available, in the capacity of which, most often, a person acts.

Having found parasites in their couch, many are wondering where they came from, and why did the premises become infected? It turns out that there are even folk signs associated with the appearance of bugs in a house or apartment and predicting what the appearance of parasites can lead to.

How to understand that parasites appeared in the apartment?

Often people for a long time do not pay attention to signs and signs that bed bugs appeared in the house. The fact is that many have never seen these insects and know very little about them.

If bed bugs began to come out in the daytime to bite people sitting on the couch, then this indicates a high degree of infection. That is, there are so many parasites in the apartment that all insects cannot get enough overnight.

Where do they most often settle?

Bedbugs choose the most secluded corners in the apartment. Most often, these insects can be found:

  • In crevices and folds of sleeping and upholstered furniture - in a bed, sofa, armchairs, etc.
  • In the gaps of other furniture, especially that which is installed next to the berths.
  • In the doorways and under the windowsills.
  • In the baseboards, in the crevices of the floor and walls.
  • In books and folds of clothing that are rarely used.

The main signs of occurrence

There are a number of signs by which you can accurately determine that bed bugs appeared in the apartment:

  • The appearance on the bodies of households of characteristic "paths" of bites. The fact is that in order to get enough of the parasite, you need to make a series of bites, crawling from place to place.
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  • The appearance on the sheets of small spots of blood and dark spots of unknown origin.
  • The appearance of an unpleasant odor. The expression “smells like bugs” is by no means figurative. With a strong infection with parasites, a characteristic unpleasant odor appears in the apartment, reminiscent of the smell of sour raspberries.

Routes of entry into apartments

Having found bed bugs in a sofa or other places, many people get scared, not understanding where the insects came from. But why and from what in the apartment bed bugs start?

The appearance of parasites does not speak about the unsanitary state of the premises; these parasites also start in the most well-kept apartments.

But as a result of which bedbugs appeared in the apartment, it does not fit in, as this will help in the fight against these parasites:

  1. Neighboring rooms. This infection route is the most common for multi-storey buildings. If parasites live in one of the neighbors in the couch and do not fight them, then over time the bugs will spread throughout the house. They have a lot of ways of penetrating into neighboring apartments, since all the premises of the house are connected by common communications.
  2. Used things. When buying things, furniture or household appliances from hand, you need to be prepared for the fact that bugs can be in the purchased sofa or books. In this case, it is worthwhile to carry out preventive treatment of the purchased item, preventing the spread of parasites in the apartment.
  3. Baggage. Often, people bring bugs as an unplanned “souvenir” from vacation. If on vacation you had to live in not very comfortable conditions, then there is nothing surprising that parasites can climb into bags or suitcases.

There are many more ways that bugs can enter a house. Pets can bring them on their wool, parasites can “come” on the clothes of guests or the owners themselves, who visited places infected with parasites.

Therefore, so that you do not have to rack your brains later on the question of where and as a result of which parasites appeared in the house, you should be careful when buying not new things or visiting suspicious places.

Omens

For hundreds of years of forced “proximity” of people with bedbugs, various signs have been created related to these parasites. Some of these signs have quite logical explanations, while others are ordinary prejudices. Here are the most popular signs.

Advice!
If bed bugs start in the house, then the household will suffer from nightmares. This sign is quite justified. Parasites bite people mainly at night, which, of course, prevents them from sleeping. And the lack of a normal night's rest leads to an overload of the psyche, which is why nightmares appear.

The presence of bugs in the house will lead to quarrels and discord in the family. This statement is also well founded. The reason is the same - the lack of a normal night's rest. Tired people become irritable. Therefore, one should not be surprised why quarrels became more frequent in the house with the appearance of parasites.

There are modern signs associated with bedbugs. For example, people who are fond of esotericism claim that the appearance of parasites in the couch leads to the leakage of positive energy, as a result of which all households become lethargic and begin to hurt.

Facts about bedbugs - traditional and not very

Bed bugs are one of the most unpleasant insects. Everyone doesn’t like cockroaches any better. And flies in comparison with this scum folk are so simple generally angels. Bed bugs are semi-winged parasites that drink human blood.

These are real little bloodsuckers that go hunting in the dawn and at a time can suck out blood twice as much as they weigh themselves.

A bit of history

The well-known bed bug came to us from the caves from the side of the Middle East, some of them even got to swim, like great lovers to travel. Strange, but bedbugs really like to change habitats, this can be said of their lifestyle.

Therefore, it is completely unnecessary to be surprised that parasites start up in the apartment after returning, for example, from a business trip or family vacation.

For bugs, this is normal. It is with great pleasure that they move with their "food" from hotels, rented apartments and even train stations. Bedbugs are especially attracted to synthetic things in public and in suitcases; for the owners of synthetics, they are ready to go to the ends of the world.

How to discover them at home

For breeding, bedbugs will require very little time. A few days, a maximum of a week it will take them to increase in number. Therefore, it makes sense to pay attention to unusual things that began to happen in the apartment. In the rooms, especially near the beds, there was a strong smell of almonds or rotten raspberries?

Most likely, this bed bug settled at you. Moreover, the smell indicates that he is not alone. Cleaning here will not help. The reasons for the appearance of parasites at home, contrary to popular belief, are not at all in the untidiness of the room. Bedbugs do not care, clean indoors or dirty. The main thing for them:

  • warmly;
  • dark places where you can hide;
  • the opportunity to go hunting every night.

In addition to clothes and bags brought from travel and business trips, bedbugs can get into the apartment with guests, just “arrive” on their clothes or even shoes. The guest sat in a chair or in a soft chair and left an uninvited guest, or even two, on it, and there everything was already as it should be ...

Few people know that home bugs appear in the house along with newly purchased furniture. Not always, of course, but such cases are not excluded. Bedbugs get into new furniture from salon or store employees who can bring parasites to work from home.

Attention!
The reason for the appearance of insects in the apartment can be neighbors. This is the most common reason why bed bugs suddenly settle where they, it would seem, should not be. Disinfection of insects from neighbors in the apartment often leads to the fact that bugs before they die quickly change their owners and at the same time their place of residence.

Insects crawl from apartment to apartment along sockets and crevices. In a minute, the parasite can creep up to 1.5 meters, and its larva up to 1 meter. Conclusions suggest themselves. A whole goblin tribe can reach the goal in some 15-20 minutes.

By the way, the more the apartment is “cluttered”, the better the conditions for the spread of insects in it, since in such rooms they feel completely safe. Therefore, bedbugs often start during repair work.

Especially there is a lot of likelihood of bugs in the apartment, the repair of which was brought in by a third-party repair team from neighboring countries. In any case, when starting a repair, you need to take care of preventing the appearance of bugs.

Causes

The question of where the bedbugs live in the apartment can be answered simply - everywhere. But, there is one feature that relates to places where bugs settle most often. Favorite places of bugs are a drawing room and a bedroom. Both rooms are adapted for sleeping and relaxing, which means that bedbugs can eat well there, while the owners of the apartment sleep soundly.

Bedbugs love living in sofas, armchairs, couches and even cots. In a word, where you don’t have to go far to “hunt”. At the last stage of infection, bedbugs do not even try to hide in the hidden places of the apartment. Parasites bed just surround the bed.

If the books are not looked after, they can also become a den for these insects.In addition to beds and upholstered furniture, bugs can settle in appliances, hide in crevices, under carpets, under window sills, behind paintings, in old books - in a word, in dark, warm and inaccessible to humans places.

Separate individuals, separated from the tribe, hide in ceiling slabs, dipping onto a sleeping person with the onset of night. By the way, this their ability does not mean at all that bugs can fly.

Within a radius of six meters from the bed, parasites can be found near heating pipes, in the seams of the mattress, in the folds of chairs, in decorative pillows, in soft toys, in curtains and even in outlets. Having a flattened body shape, bed bugs can easily hide almost anywhere in the apartment.

Ways to fight

There are really a lot of options! One of them is to kill parasites with the help of temperature differences.

Important!
Freezing and treatment with hot steam, iron or water will become spectacular. If there are no conditions to kill bedbugs in this way, then you can try folk methods - tansy flowers, wormwood, branches of marsh ledum, for example, can do a good job.

If this does not help, then you will have to resort to "chemistry", though in this case it would be desirable to enlist the support of a professional team of disinfectors. High-quality disinfection will guarantee that bedbugs leave home once and for all.

Sources of appearance and ways to eliminate bugs

It would seem that with the development of civilization such archaic anxieties as insects should have lost their relevance. However, it is exactly the opposite. The environmental situation is deteriorating, the era of consumption provokes the formation of numerous garbage dumps, the automobile boom does not improve the situation. As a result, the question of the sanitary condition of cities is very acute.

Unfortunately, standard cleaning does not provide sanitary safety for the population. Speaking about children's, medical institutions with a constant flow of the population, preventive decontamination work must be carried out without fail.

This also applies to companies in other areas (catering, beauty salons, food production, shops, etc.). The range of commercial profiles is large and each specific organization must take care of the safety of customers and employees.

More and more companies are appearing on the sanitary services market, ready to carry out extermination and preventive measures against bedbugs.

To solve the problem of emerging pests or prevent the problem in advance, you do not need to immediately run to the store. First of all, you need to understand what are the ways in which individuals enter the human home. Consider the reasons why the comfort of your own home is disrupted by an unpleasant phenomenon.

Unsanitary conditions. It does not always become clear why pests chose this particular apartment, and not another. And in some cases, the answer lies on the surface. Although bedbugs, unlike cockroaches and ants, have no interest in the bin and crumbs left, they are more likely to choose a house with a general unsanitary condition.

Advice!
The carelessness of tenants becomes an invitation card for bloodsuckers who can calmly settle and breed. Ceteris paribus, bedbugs are likely to go around a clean dwelling and choose an untidy one. In the process of searching for the source of infection, first of all pay attention to the condition of the home. It is possible that in your case the answer is on the surface.

Unclean neighbors. Why do bugs appear in an apartment that is carefully monitored? The question is relevant. Indeed, we are used to firmly associate the presence of insects with the uncleanliness of the owners, but this is not always the case.

If you are a model hostess, and the neighboring apartment is a real hotbed of dirt, cleanliness will not help. In almost 100% of cases, rapidly multiplying parasites will populate your territory. In such a situation, it is useless to fight both neighbors and insects.If you destroy some aliens, new ones will come running anyway.

There is only one option - the installation of barrier protection. This service is offered by sanitary services as part of the overall pest management.

Order a professional pest control. The master who arrived must determine the source of the problem (in this case, the neighbors are the source). In this regard, the specialist will offer you after the main processing of the premises to establish the barrier protection of the apartment. We highly recommend agreeing to this measure. In the case of conventional processing, you simply throw money away. After all, even professional extermination of insects will not prevent new individuals from running outside.

By its principle, barrier protection is the application of an insecticidal preparation in the areas of entrance doors, ventilation openings, and so on. Thus, alien parasites simply will not be able to penetrate the premises.

Foreign objects. Very often parasites "come" to the person’s house inside various objects. Most often it is furniture, household appliances, bags. This can happen when buying used items, because it is not known in what situation these items were before.

We advise you to carefully treat new items that fall into the house. Do not buy household appliances and furniture in dubious places or from dubious people.

Attention!
Moreover, sometimes it happens that infected furniture and appliances are completely new, brought from the factory warehouse. The presence of insects in industrial premises speaks only about one thing: responsible persons ignore mandatory sanitary standards, which puts the activities of the organization and its customers at risk.

The result of a trip to warm countries. It also happens: you went to a resort or just to a warm country, and on the way back you took a couple of bloodsuckers with you. This seems paradoxical. But if you look, there is nothing surprising in this. After all, bedbugs come from the warm corners of the planet. And you should not assume that only in Russia people neglect sanitary standards. It is possible that you were staying in an infected place.

Upon arrival home, the parasite, hiding in a suitcase, gets out and begins to breed in the new territory.

To prevent this, be careful about the places where you stay on trips. And on return, carefully check the contents. All clothes should be washed immediately in hot water. Inspect the remaining items. As a prophylaxis, you can spray insect spray on the contents of bags and suitcases.

Entry on the person. In addition to objects and bags, parasites can enter the room directly on the person. It can be the tenants themselves, their pets or some kind of workers. This happens in many ways.

For example, visiting guests whose sanitary situation is unknown to you may have such a result. The parasite climbs into the folds of clothes and just does not have time to get out when a person puts on this thing and goes to his home.

In addition, bedbugs can jump high and far. Therefore, an individual can jump on you even in public transport. And for your beloved pet - when he will walk around the yard garbage. There are many options. The former advice is a thorough examination of yourself and pets after unfamiliar places.

Pests can wait in new housing. Yes, that happens. Think about it when it comes to buying a second home, and you are not familiar with the former owners, as well as with their level of love for cleanliness. The sanitary condition of the premises can be completely different.

Important!
As frequent eyewitnesses to this situation, we recommend that all the lucky owners of a new apartment call medical technicians for professional disinfection. No need to wait for the surprises to reveal themselves. It is better to anticipate this exciting moment and sleep peacefully.

If you already have bed bugs, carefully analyze each opportunity, and most likely you will quickly find the answer - where did the bloodsuckers come from.

In order to understand where the bugs in the apartment come from exactly in your case, it is enough to analyze several basic ways of penetration of parasites into the room. Whatever the source of infection, you need to take care of the quick extermination of parasites and eliminate the source of the problem.

How to deal with them

Identifying the exact reason why the infection occurred will help you quickly and efficiently choose the method of extermination and the necessary drug. Another important point is the identification of all items within the house that need to be processed.

Having understood what bugs appeared in the apartment, you can more effectively deal with parasites, and also (with a slight infection) narrow the range of objects and things that need to be disinfected.

If insects have moved from neighbors, you have two options to protect yourself in the future: extermination of individuals in your apartment with the installation of barrier protection, or processing of the neighboring territory too. Neighbors are not always conscious and accommodating people, so we can say that only the second way is reliable.

But to make an attempt to negotiate with neighbors is certainly worth it. Our pest control service offers favorable double processing discounts. Talk with your neighbors, try to find out if someone besides you has encountered attacks of night parasites.

If insects were brought from vacation, the first thing to do is disinfect bags, suitcases and all their contents.

Advice!
There are many ways to disinfect things. It will either be washing at a high water temperature, or a professional dry cleaning service. The suitcase should be treated both inside and outside with a spray against bedbugs. If the manipulations did not help and the parasites continue to run around the house quietly, it means that they have already managed to breed. In this situation, the disinsection of the apartment can not be avoided.

Often the focus of infection is located in the furniture. If this is your case, a thorough disinsection of the piece of furniture is required. This eliminates bloodsucking and destroys the main source.

It is not so easy to carry out the fighter procedure of a sofa or a chair; here there are some features. First, you need to apply the chemical to all the folds of the upholstery and other hard-to-reach spots. Secondly, it is important to avoid processing those areas with which a person is in contact - seats and backs.

Thus, the disinfection of the sofa most often occurs in the following way:

  1. Dismantling the sofa, carefully inspecting it and identifying places of accumulation of parasites.
  2. Processing the sofa with special attention to places of their special concentration.
  3. Airing the sofa for several hours (after the chemical has "infused").

It is useless to wage a war against bloodsuckers on your own, not knowing why bed bugs appear in the apartment and what to do about it. Turn to professionals, they will carry out the process of disinfecting the room and things quickly, do it safely and reliably.

The work of a professional pest control

In order for you to have an idea of ​​the work of a professional master and make it easier for you to choose between independent and professional disinfestation, we will consider this process in stages.

Preparation of the apartment. The preparatory phase rests with the owners of the apartment. This happens under the strict guidance of the sanitary operator, who gives detailed instructions in advance. As a rule, the main actions are as follows:

  • Wet cleaning: this is necessary to remove a layer of dust from surfaces. Even a small dust coating will reduce the effect of the insecticide. It is required to do the cleaning using ordinary detergents.
  • Packing all personal care products in bags. This also needs to be done with food, dishes.Do not forget about the food and bowls of your pet! Things are hermetically packed in bags and cleaned, for example, in cabinets.
  • If the house has an aquarium, you need to turn off the air exchange system and close the aquarium tightly for the treatment period.
  • All bedding and furniture covers are removed and washed at high temperature (boiling will be the best option). This measure will destroy the hidden animals and their egg laying.

Identification of the source of infection. If you have no doubt where the bugs came from, inform the master. If there is any doubt, the wizard will help establish the exact cause of the bloodsuckers.

Treatment. Processing takes 30 minutes. At this time, family members with their pets need to leave the apartment. You can leave the fish in a closed aquarium at home.

Ventilation. The product should be infused for 1 hour. Then the house must be thoroughly aired for 2-3 hours.

The conscientious master gives the client recommendations for the prevention of reinfection. A warranty period of up to 3 years is established for work, depending on the type and quantity of services.

Signs of the appearance of bugs

For many of us, such a creature as a bug is a complete mystery, since in our entire life, we have never managed to see this insect. The fact is that the second half of the 20th century was marked by the good news that the bedbugs were completely destroyed.

Attention!
This was facilitated by the emergence of a drug such as DDT. However, due to its toxicity, in the 80s it was banned for use. After this ban, after 3-4 years, in many cities, the question of why bugs are brought in from the apartment becomes relevant. So, in this article we will try to fully answer it.

First of all, it is necessary to determine exactly whether it is really necessary to sound the alarm. It is almost impossible to see bugs in the daytime, they are active only at night. These insects are categorically afraid of light. Therefore, they hide from him in such secluded places as:

  • folds of clothes
  • sofas
  • the books
  • doorways
  • furniture slots

Unfortunately, even if you know where the bugs live in the apartment, this will be completely insufficient for their destruction.

If a well-fed insect becomes vulnerable enough, then a hungry bug is very difficult to notice and crush physically, since in its shape it is completely flat.

However, there are a number of signs by which you can determine the appearance of these miniature vampires in your apartment. Here you can highlight such signs as:

  1. The appearance on the body of longitudinal tracks from bites. Unlike mosquitoes and other insects, the bug does not make one puncture, but moves forward, until your belly is completely filled with your blood.
  2. Small brown spots on the bed. They are the traces of the bugs that you have crushed, which have already managed to get their “portion of cocktail,” but have not dodged the moment you turned over in a dream.
  3. Not a very pleasant smell reminiscent of almonds or cilantro. This symptom is a bit controversial, as scientists claim that it appears only if the bugs feed on the blood of different groups.

How bugs appear in the apartment

There is an erroneous opinion that bugs start only where it is dirty. This is not entirely true. Indeed, unsanitary conditions are the root cause of the appearance of these creatures.

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However, due to their unique survival and ability to adapt, even the cleanest and most sterile room cannot be completely protected from bedbugs. The problem is where the bugs come from in the apartment.

The following sources can be distinguished:

  • Neighbors. The most terrible problem, since there are no options for dealing with them. If bugs live in neighboring rooms, they will easily come to you through ventilation ducts.
  • Old things picked up at landfills (sofas, appliances, furniture).
  • Bedbugs accidentally entering the house in bags or suitcases.This trend is especially observed after returning from resort "hotels", which are essentially barracks. An insufficient amount of money forces us to visit them, but, believe me, the risk you are exposed to when you spend the night in damp and dirty basements or sheds is not justified for the sake of 7-8 days spent by the sea.
  • Active communication with not always pure suspicious individuals who are actively migrating from Central Asia.

Thus, summing up, we can draw a general conclusion that, if you know what bugs appear in the apartment from, you can prevent their invasion. To do this, it is enough to adhere to such rules:

  • do not pick up discarded items from landfills
  • do not save on vacation
  • avoid communication with people who have constant “mourning” under the nails.

What causes bugs in the apartment

An unexpected surge in the activity of bed bugs at the beginning of the 21st century caught mankind by surprise. Even in the most developed countries of North America, Europe and Australia, residents of large cities are puzzled by the question of why bed bugs start in an apartment in our time.

In the Middle Ages, people seriously believed that bedbugs, mice, cockroaches and other “evil spirits” originate in accumulations of house dust and piles of dirty laundry. With the rise of enlightenment, it became clear that bed bugs start in the apartment, getting into it in various ways from the outside.

Throughout history, people have been suffering from domestic bugs and are looking for ways to deal with them. By the end of the last century, the problem seemed to be resolved, however, it was not long to rejoice.

Epidemiologists distinguish three blocks of reasons why bedbugs start up with new force in the apartments of modern megacities:

  1. The complex of social factors. Migration from Central Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe leads to overpopulation of cities. This also includes an increase in demand for second hand goods, an increased interest in tourism and travel, and the active movement of entrepreneurs and goods.
  2. Climate change. Global warming, as well as an increase in the number of constantly heated rooms create suitable conditions for the propagation of bugs.
  3. The use of insecticides. On the one hand, their range and technology of use are changing. On the other hand, parasites develop resistance to chemicals of different structures - and this poses new challenges for biologists in how to get rid of them.

For example, since the 90s, in the fight against cockroaches, gels and bait products are increasingly being used instead of spraying with a wide range of insecticides. As a result, the bugs felt more comfortable.

Bed bugs in the apartment

There are two types of settlement of bugs, as a result of which they start in the apartment.

Active resettlement involves the migration of the colony at a local level. For example, bedbugs wound up in a sofa (bites on the body or bloody footprints in bed in the morning served as a signal), then gradually spread around the room or even crawled into adjacent rooms.

Advice!
This also includes cases when bedbugs start in the same apartment, after which they go to the neighbors on the site or along the riser.

A passive type of resettlement is when individuals move a great distance from an infected room on a person’s clothes, in a bag or on furniture. In this way, insects often make intercontinental flights, and this is a fairly common reason why bed bugs start in the apartment all in new and new areas.

Active resettlement factors

If there is enough food for them in the house where the bugs were wound up, then the parasites will not just move from apartment to apartment. There are several reasons that can provoke the spread of insects.

Colony Too Big. It happens that a year or two or more have passed since people got bed bugs, and they are in no hurry to do something about it. Most often this applies to those families where they have problems with alcoholism or drugs.

An apartment swarming with bugs becomes a source of infection at the entrance, while the nearest neighbors are the first to suffer.

Case from practice. In Rostov-on-Don, the landlady of the apartment on the top floor of a five-story building raised the alarm - bed bugs woke up in the house. Soon, she managed to organize the processing of several apartments on the same day, convincing her of the need for her closest neighbors on the site, who claimed that they had no bugs.

When examining the house, the disinfector found out that the bedbugs had already reached the third floor, and the apartment was where the bedbug was not even complained about. During her examination, as soon as the furniture was pushed aside, it crunched under the feet of the disinfector - it turned out that he stepped on a centimeter layer of skins and dead insects!

Given the stage of infection of this apartment, it took a month to completely get rid of bugs.

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Neighbor Processing. What if bedbugs were started in the apartment, but the processing did not bring the desired result, and the colony did not die? This happens for a number of reasons. For example, the owners poisoned insects with ineffective household aerosols, or this generation of parasites had a high resistance to a chemical preparation.

In this case, the threat can force the bedbugs to leave their former location and spread throughout the apartment. And part of the insects can go to the neighbors.

Bedbugs use ventilation ducts, holes in the places of passage of communications as relocation routes, and in the warm season they easily crawl along the outer walls through windows and cracks on the balcony.

Repair work. Indoor construction work is accompanied by loud noise and vibration in the walls and ceilings. If bedbugs were hiding in them, this would scare them away and drive them out, which would cause resettlement throughout the house.

Case from practice. When the roof and facade of the building were overhauled in one multi-storey building, a lot of bugs suddenly appeared in the apartment on the top floor, crawling everywhere even during the day. During the examination, not a single place, which was covered by bedbugs, was found. All signs indicated that the insects did not breed in this room, but at one moment populated it in large numbers. Such an invasion was clearly provoked by construction work.

Random nomads. Passive migration of bugs over long distances is not associated with their nature, but rather with human activity.

As mentioned above, we live in an age of high urbanization, as well as the active movement of people around the planet. Bed bugs, together with people, move around countries and accumulate in residential areas of large cities. Conventionally, two main ways of their travels can be distinguished: on a person and on objects.

On man. Economic development contributes to the establishment of new international business contacts. Also, people with different levels of income are very popular today with foreign tourism and travel. Due to these factors, the hotel maintains a high passability of guests.

Important!
At the same time, of course, there is a high risk of infection by bedbugs in hotel rooms, and especially in budget hostels. After spending the night in bed with these parasites, a person can easily grab a “passenger” with him on clothes or in a bag with things. It is clear then what bugs in the apartment start from.

The last decade in Europe has been marked by a massive influx of refugees from eastern and African countries where there are wars and people live in poverty. This entails sanitary and epidemiological consequences. There are conditions for outbreaks of an epidemic of bloodsucking parasites and their subsequent spread.

On humans, bedbugs travel within the city. A simple trip to visit or receive guests at home often ends in unpleasant consequences. At the same time, people, as a rule, do not realize that they got bed bugs, and therefore do not comply with quarantine.

On furniture and other goods. The Internet has simplified and expanded the possibilities of trade.Through various sites and online stores you can order goods with home delivery. In addition, people purchase used goods from their hands or at second hand stores. All this creates additional routes for the transfer of bed bugs.

Especially worth mentioning the purchase of used sofas. Some feel sorry for throwing out the sofa in which the bugs are wound up, and they decide to sell it. Of course, they don’t say anything to the buyer, and after two or three weeks the happy owner suddenly discovers that it’s not clear where the bugs got from his house.

It is better to avoid buying upholstered furniture, and even more so to bring home found on the street, even if its appearance seems attractive. Moreover, buying furniture in a store, it will not be superfluous to carefully examine it for bedbugs - cases of infection through new sofas, beds and cabinets have become more frequent.

This is especially true of large stores with large storage facilities. Bedbugs can be brought to the warehouse from the house by a regular staff member, and for the administration it is difficult to track this problem for objective reasons.

How parasites get into the house

Unlike other insects living in the apartment, bedbugs bite, which brings much more trouble and discomfort than cockroaches that everyone hates.

How to identify

The sooner you find parasites, the easier it will be to destroy them. There are several signs by which it is easy to understand that bedbugs are wound up in the house:

  • In the afternoon, everything is quiet and calm, insects are not visible anywhere. Blood-sucking begin to eat from 2-3 o'clock in the morning, when people sleep soundly. If you wake up at this time, you can feel the slight tickling of small legs. It is enough to turn on the light to see for yourself that there are a bunch of illegal residents of the house;
  • The characteristic appearance of bites is difficult to confuse with others. The parasite makes a puncture, then creeps forward a little and repeats again, so it turns out a whole path of small wounds, which is not typical for mosquitoes;
  • Special smell. This sign indicates that the colony has already grown to enormous size. Insects emit a sour smell, it is often compared with cognac or rotten raspberries. With a good sense of smell, one can even calculate the localization of the cluster;
  • Brown spots on bedding. This is actually dried human blood. The wounds after the bite still bleed for a while, from which very small spots remain. The spots are larger, remain from the insects themselves. A well-fed parasite swells and becomes vulnerable, it can be crushed, if you just turn in a dream;
  • Specific trash on the floor. Excrement looks like small black specks; it is easy to notice them even in gray dust. Another indicator is discarded skins;
  • If you examine the secluded places near the bed, you can find heaps of garbage, even if there are no insects at home, the larvae - small translucent grains similar to rice grains, only smaller ones will help to identify them.

Ways of infection of the apartment

The era of apartment buildings leads to a new heyday of the life of domestic parasites. They just go to the neighbors to wait out the bullying in the apartment. But if the house is in perfect cleanliness, what causes bed bugs in the apartment? They feed on blood, so crumbs and litter are not an indicator of comfort for them. There are many ways to get into our house:

  1. Ventilation, cracks under the doors, even the outer wall can be a wonderful way to colonize human space;
  2. In furniture stores and warehouses, sanitary standards are not always followed. The new sofa may turn out to be the old house of bloodsuckers;
  3. Hand-bought items may have an undesirable bonus in themselves, especially old books, antique furniture;
  4. Hotels and hotels are trying to deal with misfortunes, but not always successfully. It is difficult to notice a small insect among things, they easily fall into a suitcase and settle in an apartment upon arrival home;
  5. You can bring the parasite from any public place.Those who have insects at home often carry them on their clothes, so you can pick up a parasite anywhere.

Why bugs start in the apartment, because the source of food is very close here - human blood.

Where to look for them

At night, the parasites go hunting, but they can live almost throughout the house. They love quiet secluded places, where it is warm and crowded. The first thing to check is the most suitable areas:

  • The most popular place is the bed. The food is close and everything else suits. Particular attention should be paid to the junction of the frame and mattress;
  • The second most popular place is the sofa. Often it is used as a sleeping place. You need to inspect the joints: back, armrests, pillows;
  • The area under the baseboard. In old houses with plank floors and ceilings, you need to look for clusters in the cracks. A sloppy door slope also becomes a suitable refuge;
  • If the wallpaper moves away from the walls, these cavities also become suitable for living, especially if there are neighbors behind the wall;
  • The most unexpected places are the areas behind mirrors, paintings, wall shelves and panels. Even a shelf with books that almost never go out is populated by residents;
  • Soft toys often play the role of decoration, especially in the girl’s bedroom. They are cozy and warm, especially when they are often not torn;
  • A closet with clothes always stands next to the bed, from there it is easy to get to the feeder;
  • Household appliances accompany people everywhere; there are many secluded and safe places for uninvited guests in the mechanisms.

If bugs appeared, what should I do? Check all indicated places. Even if there is no living creature everywhere, you need to process the entire apartment, a separate individual can hide in the crack and the colony will rejoice again.

How to get rid

What to do if bed bugs are wound up? Of course, destroy them. There are many ways, and they all have different efficiencies. Withdrawal methods are familiar to man for a long time, he never wanted to put up with unwanted neighbors.

Important!
Traditionally, insects were disposed of using gatherings and decoctions of herbs. Their peculiarity is that parasites do not like pungent odors, and they do not like herbs like wormwood, ledum, chamomile.

When using this method, the insect does not die, but simply leaves. In a private house, he has nothing to eat on the street, but this is not suitable for the city. Parasites will run away to their neighbors, and as soon as the smell dissipates, some of them will return.

Special preparations for independent use. There are many of them, and they all work. But the problem is that insects produce immunity in a bistro. If managed to escape, having received a small dose of poison, a new generation from this individual will be immune to the drug.

It is worth acquiring new means, with a new active substance, this will give more likelihood of destruction. It is better to arrange the whole house and conduct the processing at the same time.

Types of products differ from each other. There are concentrated preparations and powders that need to be diluted. There are completely ready to use. Before starting the treatment, the apartment needs to be prepared. Move the furniture away from the walls to process the skirting board and hide the products.

It is worth remembering that contacting yourself with chemicals is always dangerous. There is a possibility of a severe allergic reaction, up to anaphylactic shock. Protective equipment must be worn.

Professional pest control will do the job best. The apartment will have to be left for several days, but then the pests will leave it. Now in every big city there are several companies with similar services. It is better to appeal to those who have a good reputation in the city.

Some cannot afford to leave the house for even a few hours. Then you have to use the safest of all possible drugs. These include special crayons, and plant-based products. They are also effective, but they will not eliminate pests in one day.

What to do if bed bugs at home? - Of course, destroy them. The fight is carried out in several stages.The first step is to determine who exactly caused the concern. The second step is the search for habitats and possible shelters. After this, it remains only to inflict a decisive blow with the chosen means.

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  1. Folk ways to deal with bedbugs in the house today can be considered hopelessly outdated. It is difficult to imagine that a modern person will spray turpentine or kerosene in his apartment, risking damage to furniture, plastic surfaces, carpets. And just breathing all this with the risk of starting a fire or explosion is a very dubious pleasure.

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