The bed bug has been an enemy and neighbor of man since ancient times, the chronicles of our ancestors mention a tiny parasite from 400 years before the new era. Still Pliny and Aristotle in their treatises described the appearance of these insects. The main danger from bugs is painful and itchy bites, because they feed on human blood. What to do, when bed bugs started in your favorite couch and began to annoy the owners of the apartment at night? The question is vital, and it is necessary to approach the solution of the problem quickly and thoroughly.
What are the bugs in the couch going to spawn from?
Appear in your house bugs can for various reasons - along with boxes, boxes, old furniture, through ventilation or other communications brought from the outside. Guests can bring these parasites with them in luggage or bags. Bugs have no developed wings, they do not fly. Inhabit bugs directly near their potential victim and try to hide themselves in sofas or beds. Instead of wings, these parasites acquired other advantages - a flattened body and the ability to squeeze into the smallest crevice of furniture, which made war with them extremely difficult.
How to get rid of bedbugs in the couch?
Signs of the appearance of insects do not need to be searched for long, they themselves will tell you about the presence the next night. The difference between bug bites from mosquito tricks is a path from punctures. Also, you can find excrement in the form of dots and feel like almond odor, which will intensify with time. You can find the harmful neighbors themselves under the mattress and in the cracks.
How to get bugs in the couch?
- Linen, clothes, curtains with blankets should be included in dry cleaning. If this is not possible, then wash the things by throwing them in hot water.
- Be sure to do a wet cleaning throughout the room, insects clearly live not only in bed, but in other subjects.
- It is advisable to disassemble the sofa, pushing it to the center of the room to facilitate cleaning.
- Treat all crevices, stitches, folds of the upholstery with steam or boiled water.
- With vacuum cleaner, try to collect parasites and their eggs.
- It is believed that bedbugs die from the strongest cold. It is possible in winter to take out the sofa outside, if the temperature is about 20 ° C.
- Chemical reagents are capable of killing bugs in the couch also effectively. Use Raptor, Dichlorvos, Carbophos, Executioner and other similar insecticides.
- Branches of dried wormwood, vinegar, turpentine with kerosene, as well as other folk remedies work against bedbugs, but extremely inefficiently.
- In case of severe infection, it is better to call special services, this method is expensive, but in some cases there may not be any other way out.
