The people have long been fighting against these annoying insects, which for centuries have been terrorizing the population of towns and villages. When they are not very many, you can try to use folk recipes, but if bedbugs completely occupy the home and the scale of the invasion is alarming, then only the strongest and total disinfection will help.
Folk remedies for bed bugs
- An ancient but effective remedy for bed bugs is cold. During severe colds, when the thermometer shows below 35 degrees, they take out furniture and things on the street and insects perish. But in the conditions of the south, this method looks rather complicated. Even the air conditioner set to the lowest temperature can not lead to the optimal result, although it is possible that a part of the malicious fry will die.
- If problems arise with the cold, then you can use the opposite means - hot water or steam. In olden times, mattresses and underwear were poured with steep boiling water, after which everything was dried. Now there are perfect household appliances - steam generators or powerful irons. They are also well suited for the destruction of bed bugs folk remedies.
- It is important to destroy not only adults, but small insect larvae. A powerful vacuum cleaner is a good thing to deal with bedbugs that have fallen under a skirting board and in other hard-to-reach crevices or folds of upholstered furniture.
- Previously, it was not a problem to get some kerosene or turpentine, which also helped to cope well with bedbugs. They moistened the legs and other wooden or metal parts of furniture. The smell of this remedy is rather unpleasant and it should be used only as a last resort.
- Vinegar is more familiar to our mistresses than turpentine, and it's been known for a long time that bugs can not tolerate it either. If you mix vinegar, alcohol and naphthalene in equal parts, then you get a thermonuclear solution that has better indicators.
- For the treatment of the house, you can use the following solution: add about 150 grams of denatured alcohol to about five grams of naphthalene, shake and treat the house.
- Bedbugs do not like some plants that are successfully used,
as a means for the destruction of harmful insects. They are quite common wormwood and tansy. Wormwood has a specific smell that repels this attack. You can make a decoction of it and mix it with vinegar, sprinkling this liquid with a house. - Tansy can also be dried and laid out under the beds. But we must remember that it is a poisonous plant that can not be given to children or animals.
Grandmother's funds sometimes help much more effectively than formidable chemistry, which poisons both insects and other dwellers of the dwelling. Therefore, people are increasingly trying to apply ancient proven methods.