How many bugs live after disinfection

Bed bugs - very cunning, tenacious and elusive parasites, from which it is very difficult get rid of yourself. After processing from bugs, carried out by a special service, all insects must die, although there are exceptions.

Surviving pests

Bedbugs are highly adaptable to external factors, so it is very difficult to completely destroy them. It is absolutely impossible situation to disappear themselves. Some facts from the life of these tenacious pests:

• freely mixed in the apartment and find a person anywhere;
• in the absence of food, they fall into a state of anabiosis and can live in it for up to 1.5 years, in order to wake up and start biting again;
• the effect of low temperatures also has a soporific effect;
• highly multiply rapidly;
• even after quality professional treatment of the apartment eggs are viable for another 14-20 days.

Based on their high viability, one can guess why some insects and their the eggs.

Bedbug eggs

Important!

Treatment for bedbugs using folk remedies (kerosene, vinegar, herbal decoction) is completely ineffective and does not affect the decline in population numbers.

Apartment preparation

Whether bugs can reappear after treatment - this question is often asked by the owners of the contaminated premises and can only be answered in the affirmative.To ensure that the pest control was of high quality and allowed guaranteed to destroy all the parasitesnecessary prepare an apartment:

1. To make in advance food and everything that can deteriorate if pest control gets out of the house.
2. Provide free access to all beds where careful handling is especially important: beds, bedding, corners in the room, baseboards.
3. During the work, which usually lasts 1-1.5 hours, it is better to monitor the quality of disinsection.
4. Next, the owners better leave for a few hours while the apartment is under the influence of insecticides.
5. After returning, the room must be well ventilated, bed sheets should be cleaned at a high temperature of 60-90˚С.
   

   The death of bedbugs
6. During pest control, adult bugs die, so dead insects need to be collected in a bag, as well as possible larvae, eggs and throw away.
7. Wet cleaning is better not to spend 1-2 weeks, because young nymphs that have emerged from eggs, and bedbugs that have survived after disinfection, will move along the treated surface.
8. The best options would be to leave the apartment for this period (to the country or to friends), on return it is recommended to do a thorough wet cleaning in all rooms.wash or sterilize dishes, wipe the furniture with hot water with an antiseptic (soda solution), ventilate, vacuum all corners and baseboards, furniture.

What happens after disinsection

To make sure that the pest control was successful, you can observe how the bugs behave after treatment. Normally, the death of parasites should occur within 1-3 days (sometimes up to a week). The remaining insects crawl very slowly around the room, gradually dying.

Whether eggs of bedbugs die during disinfection - the result depends on the method and choice of means. The effect of insecticides on embryos is less effective; therefore, often young individuals hatch from them, which actively run up in search of food — the blood of the owner.

Bedbugs - their larvae and eggs

Interesting!

Some inexperienced owners are wondering if the bug will die after being bitten by a human, as is the case with bees. Definitely not. On the contrary, after drinking human blood, he lives happily ever after.

Preparations used for the destruction of bedbugs and the death of insects

It is necessary to know that during the disinsection of an apartment, not all preparations give a full guarantee of the death of insects.Often, the result of treatment depends on the particular means used and on the number of parasite populations in the room.

Preparations used for disinsection are divided into several classes:

• pyrethroids - insects often have acquired resistance to them, bugs selectively disappear most often, some remain alive;
• organic phosphorus compounds (FOS) - have the advantage that they can poison not only adults, but also eggs, larvae;
• neonicotinoids.

To answer the question of how long the bugs live after treatment, it is worth considering how the remedy acts on them. The optimal time of onset of action of the drug on insects is 20-40 minutes, during which the bugs that received the first lethal dose of the drug die. However, some insects may be resistant or less exposed.

The question of how long after treatment bugs die, can not be answered accurately. The complete destruction of parasites, with high probability, will occur within 3-5 days. It should be noted that the surviving insects are actively crawling out of all shelters and, finding untreated places, can crawl into the next apartment.To reduce the risk of bedbug migration to neighbors, it is necessary to handle all the paths of their movement well.

When re-treatment is required

Bedbug Nymphs

There is a chance that surviving adult individuals or hatched nymphs from eggs will remain. In this case, a reasonable question arises, what to do if after processing the bugs continue to bite the host. It should often be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, destroying the surviving and half-dead individuals.

There is a list of situations where a repeated procedure is exactly necessary:

• insect localization has changed - bugs disappear in one place, but appear in another;
• parasites did not disappear after treatment.

It should be borne in mind that due to the high adaptability of these parasites, 95% according to statistics, the probability of survival of adults and their eggs is quite high, so the process should be repeated with another insecticide.

After how many days do you need re-treatment from bedbugs? The optimal time is 10-14 days after the first disinsection, but no later than a month after the first one, so that mature nymphs do not have time to re-lay eggs.

Feedback

Held cold mist treatment for bed bugsbut nothing helped.I called the disinfection service asking what to do if the bugs bite anyway. I was again sent by specialists, and the secondary spraying was already done with another preparation. Only after that the insects died.

Veronica, Moscow