How bedbugs spread
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Bed bugs, cockroaches, ants are among the most annoying and often found residential insects. There are a lot of ways how bugs are transferred to an apartment, starting with the fact that they can be brought independently on their clothes and ending with the acquisition of things and pieces of furniture, household appliances. Protecting your home from pests is not easy.They penetrate the room where it is very dirty, damp and in the elite country houses. Once in the apartment, begin multiply rapidly, laying eggs, settling in all nooks, and biting at night people who are their only food source.
How bedbugs get into the apartment
One can suspect that bed bugs have appeared in the house, by the characteristic smell, small blood stains on the sheets, red, itchy spots on the body that remain after bites. Parasites bring a lot of problems into a person’s life and make it difficult to feel at home in their home.
How pests penetrate an apartment or house:
- Homebugs can get into the apartment with the purchase of used household appliances. They are especially attracted to system processors, stoves, refrigerators.
- Furniture. Bugs are transmitted from a store specializing in the sale of antique furniture or simply used. There they hide under the upholstery in anticipation of the new owners, who will become a source of food for the parasites.
- Soft children's toys from contaminated premises.
- Insects can be brought home on clothes purchased at Second Hand stores.
- BooksIn order not to introduce bedbugs into your apartment, when purchasing second-hand editions, you should carefully examine the pages in order to identify in them blood-sucking individuals, bedbug eggs.
- With the premise. Receiving a parcel in the mail, it must be subjected to careful inspection. Often parasites live in warehouses, which easily penetrate into the wrappers and thus migrate throughout the country. This is another option as bedbugs spread.
- After traveling and overnight in hotels, motels. In order not to bring home bedbugs, it is not necessary to lay out clothes in rooms that do not inspire confidence, and also to keep suitcases, bags open.
- If the neighbors have bugs, it is likely that soon they will spread to all the nearby apartments. They can penetrate from one room to another through the smallest cracks and ventilation, and in the warm season along the walls of houses. Move bed bugs on clothes To another apartment can both the owner of the contaminated housing and his visitors.
- Visitors, guests can also bring bedbugs on their clothes, shoes or in a bag. Insect is easy to hide in the folds of clothes,pockets. In the same way, “live souvenirs” fall after visiting infected apartments, especially after spending the night in them. In order not to bring the bugs from the guests, all the clothes that were worn at that time should be hanged on the dryer or steam generator.
- Repairs. If the neighbors began building, painting and varnish works, then all the insects that are in their apartment will quickly begin to travel to neighboring apartments.
- Illiterate pest control in an apartment building is often the cause penetration of bedbugs from the neighbour's infected room into the apartment.
- Change of housing. A car for transporting furniture can be a source of parasites. In order not to carry bedbugs with you when moving, you should pack all things well, wrapping them in plastic. When moving from an apartment in which bloodsuckers are firmly established, you need to try to move without bugs. To do this, you must carefully inspect all things, the main thing is not to allow bedbugs on them. It is recommended that all clothes, bedding, textiles be washed in water above 50 ° C or treated with a steam generator. Delicate fabrics can be frozen.
If the thermometer shows above 50 ° C or below 20 ° C, bring pillows, blankets, and fabric products to the street. High and low temperatures destroy the parasites at any stage of development. Immediately pack all processed clothes and belongings into hermetically sealed bags. Such simple measures will not carry with things annoying bedbugs.
Feedback
In the summer, my wife and I went to rest in the Crimea. Inexpensive rented a room at the granny. We thought that we didn’t need the mansions, anyway we’ll only come to sleep. In the morning we woke up with red spots. After a detailed examination revealed that it bedbug bites. I had to look for new housing. But the main problem was not how to move out of the apartment with bedbugs - we found a small cozy house in a quiet, beautiful place very quickly, but that we brought bedbugs in a suitcase home. They were able to determine this after 2 months, when chains of bites again appeared on the body.
Artem, Volgograd
Tips to help prevent parasites in the home
Preventing the infection of an apartment is problematic, sometimes even impossible.As practice shows, each person can carry the bugs into the house. Pests do not matter - clean in the apartment or dirty. Having penetrated into the room, having found the source of food, they will no longer want to leave, but will multiply and attack people at a rapid rate. But you can create adverse conditions that will help prevent the spread of insects. These include:
- weekly general cleaning;
- air the room twice a day;
- monitor the condition of the furniture, clean and wipe;
- creature protective barrier;
- carry out cosmetic repairs, glue wallpaper, fill up the cracks in the walls;
- ventilation must be closed with a special grid;
- the apartment should not be damp and mold.
On a note!
Lack of sunlight and daily ventilation, dampness, dust, clutter, old furniture, dirt makes the apartment an ideal place for living and breeding bedbugs.
How to stop the multiplication and spread of insects
If it was not possible to prevent the occurrence of bedbugs and small bloodsuckers were found, the best option would be to call a pest control professional processing. In addition, he will give advice on how not to bring home bedbugs again.
After processing, you must adhere to some rules:
- carefully examine purchases from second-hand stores;
- Suitcases and travel bags should not be immediately brought into the apartment, it is better to remove them to the balcony;
- parcels and parcels open over the bathroom to be able to notice the dropped pest;
- on a plinth, a crack, near an entrance door periodically to put special bed bugs gel or use insect crayon.
The easiest way to prevent the appearance of parasites in the house than to be afraid and try in every way get rid of bedbugs.