What do bed bugs eggs look like?

One of the most common human companions are bed bugs. Fighting them gives a lot of trouble because of their rapid reproduction. The numerous eggs of bedbugs are hidden so securely that it becomes necessary to find effective remedy for the klopin family. To do this, you need to know what the eggs of bed bugs look like.

The breeding of bedbugs, their eggs and larvae

Bites, blood stains on bedding, the black points of the intruder of the intruder ¬– all this signs of eggs and bed bugs larvae. Not very pleasant smell of rotten raspberries will signal that you need to look for masonry. This can be done only with careful inspection of the bed and linen, as well as other parts of the apartment.

Bedbug eggs

To detect the eggs of bedbugs, you should take a magnifying glass. They are very small, the length does not exceed one millimeter. Their oblong shape, with a slight bend, resembles rice grains. If you look at the eggs of bedbugs in the photo, you can see that at the end of each of them there is a cap. The color of eggs varies from transparent - pearl to yellowish. The special adhesive substance covering their shell allows them to adhere to different surfaces, even vertical ones. So laying bedbug gets protection from most pesticides. Each stack contains from five to twelve pieces.

To combat parasites is not enough to know what the eggs of bedbugs look like. To destroy them faster, it is advisable to study breeding patterns, habitat conditions.You need to know where the bugs lay their eggs. The breeding method is traumatic insemination. The male pierces the female's abdomen with his sexual organ and injects seminal fluid into her body. It is stored in a special tank and is constantly used. Therefore, females do not need a sexual partner to create all new clutches.

About five days, eggs are formed in their bodies, after which they lay eggs up to twelve pieces per day. Eggs of bugs are placed in large groups of up to hundreds of pieces. At this time, the female needs a quality diet, because one meal gives her the opportunity to lay twenty eggs, from which new individuals will hatch. For the entire life span, the female is able to lay many eggs and give life to five hundred new bugs.

Bedbug Nymphs

After how many bugs eggs from hatch? After three or four days, bed bugs' eggs give life to nymphs. This is an immature larva, an embryo, a small copy of an adult bug. You can see it in the photo. The development of the larvae is accompanied by a fivefold molt every six or seven days. For normal development, it needs at least once to drink blood before filling the stomach. Bug larva consumes less blood than an adult. But because of their large numbers, it is their bites that bother the person most. In addition, the larvae are not able to anesthetize the wound, which causes itching. How long does the larva need to reach puberty? After a month and a half, a full-fledged individual appears.

Bedbug bites

Bed bugs lifespan It is directly dependent on temperature conditions. Ideal conditions of 25-30 degrees allow the insect to live up to twelve months.

Ways to destroy eggs and larvae

Bedbug eggs have a high degree of invulnerability for many types of extermination. Therefore, the question is so relevant, how to kill eggs. The properties of the protective shell help them to withstand the action of pesticides, temperature drops, mechanical effects. But there are some vulnerabilities: high humidity, lowering the temperature below twenty degrees or raising more than seventy. Learning simple and affordable methods, the question of how to destroy the eggs of bed bugs will cease to be relevant.

There are three main ways to destroy eggs and larvae at home: thermal, mechanical, chemical.

1. Mechanically fighting the larvae is long and ineffective.We have to find each laying and try to kill the eggs manually. Before you need to consider the eggs of bed bugs in the photo. If the number of larvae is large, then this method is unacceptable.
2. The chemical method requires the correct selection of an insecticide. It is recommended to apply microencapsulated funds, such as Delta Zone, Geth. They remain active for several months and destroy each new generation, preventing their reproduction. Therefore, re-processing may not be required. From inexpensive drugs can be called Malathion, Fufanon. But their cheapness is explained by the high level of toxicity and odor. The most powerful drugs, such as Sinusan, Tetrix, Chlorpirimak, Sikhlor, require the use of protective measures and have a strong odor. Facilities Dichlorvos or Combat will require multiple processing, which is not very convenient in the apartment. There is a drug of professional action Diazinon. But to use it at home is prohibited because of its toxic effects on humans and animals.
   
   

   Fufanon from bedbugs
3. A rather effective thermal method of dealing with larvae, if you know at what temperature bugs die. It should be treated with boiling water where possible accumulation of eggs. Boil the laundry, steam generator mattress. The operation requires several repetitions with weekly breaks. In the winter, you can, on the contrary, take out infected objects all day on the street or on the balcony. The temperature should be below twenty degrees. After freezing, you can rinse all with a hot solution of peroxide or soda with water.

Where to find bedbugs nests

It is not easy to find the eggs of domestic bugs because of their small size and the ability of the female to penetrate the most hard-to-reach places. In addition, the parasite does not tolerate daylight and tends to hide eggs laying in dark corners of the room, closer to the power source. If during the search an adult specimen is found, then there is a clutch and larvae nearby. To discover the latter, you need to know what the eggs of bedbugs look like. You can read about it above. Armed with a magnifying glass and a flashlight, you need to inspect habitat of larvae:

• bed, bed and mattress;
• clothes, especially the seams;
• pet resting place;
• slits in baseboards;
• upholstered furniture and wooden furniture slots;
  
  

  Habitats of bedbugs in the house
• carpets;
• cracks in the wallpaper;
• picture frames;
• ventilation;
• electrical appliances and heating system.

Prevention

Completely destroy the larvae and protect the housing from the penetration of bedbugs forever impossible. But we must do everything possible to reduce the likelihood of infection of the premises.

• If the neighbors have such a problem, then you can protect the apartment by closing all the gaps, especially near the risers of the pipelines.
• Places adjacent to the communication channels should often be treated with special crayons, dusts from bedbugs.
• It is better to get rid of the old parquet, as it is the favorite place of shelter for bedbugs because of the many cracks.
• Unnecessary, old things should be thrown away, as they serve as bloodsuckers for nest formation.
• If you had a chance to stay in a hotel or accommodation with larvae, then upon returning home you should process the bags with hot steam, and wash things immediately.
• Acquisition of furniture and things from the hands is always fraught with the appearance of uninvited guests in the form of bugs, careful inspection and processing is necessary.

The work on the destruction of the larvae on their own requires time and patience.Knowing how to get rid of bedbug eggs in an apartment, you can apply all available methods. If a bedbuging activities were successful, but the problem remained with the neighbors, then in two weeks it will be necessary to repeat the disinsection. Therefore, the procedure should be carried out jointly, you can use professional services for the destruction of bedbugs.