These insects can appear in the house at any time, their activity noticeably increases at night - and a person can feel it on himself, because the main source of nutrition is human blood.
Mosquitoes are blood-sucking insects that can live freely both in the open air and in a city apartment.
As you know, only female mosquitoes can drink blood - they need this in order to continue their race. Mosquito bites become more active in the evening and subside a little at night.
You can see what mosquito bites look like in photos on the Internet. Probably every person is familiar with these itchy red spots that itch and itch.
Fortunately, today the problem of getting rid of mosquitoes has been almost completely solved. The stores offer a huge number of repellents and special sprays that will help get rid of annoying insects in a matter of hours.
But very often a situation arises when fleas appear in an apartment even in the absence of pets. In such cases, the source of their appearance is basement, attic and even the entrance of a residential building.
Especially activity bed fleas intensifies at night. The next morning, a person may see red dots on the skin with droplets of blood in the center, which are very itchy and itchy. As a rule, fleas only bite open areas body without getting under clothes or blankets.
How to get rid of bed fleas? First, you should carry out a general cleaning of the entire apartment and treat it with special insecticides. To treat living spaces, it is very convenient to use spray products.
- a well-fed insect has a round body,
- in a hungry person it is oblong.
Like many other blood-sucking insects, bedbugs are predominantly nocturnal - they bite people only at night, and during the day they hide in furniture or household items.
You can determine the presence of bed bugs by their characteristic bites, which are arranged in a “path”:
- in my arms,
- legs,
- back.
Insects reproduce very quickly, within 3-4 weeks ordinary apartment can turn into a real breeding ground for bedbugs.
The first thing you need to do in order to get rid of bedbugs in your apartment forever is to find and destroy their main nest. Be sure to carry out wet cleaning throughout the house using antiseptic agents.
Such drugs include:
- Executioner,
- Karbofos,
- Sinuzan,
- Delta zone,
- Battalion commander,
- Raptor.
Bed mites do not bite humans. The danger of such a “neighborhood” lies elsewhere - in the course of their life, insects excrete feces, which then remain on the surface of human skin and can enter the respiratory tract. And this leads to many health problems - from the development of a severe allergic reaction to migraines, asthma and cough.
As practice shows, it is impossible to completely destroy bed mites. You can only reduce their number. For this purpose, down or feather pillow should be replaced with synthetic or bamboo.
If you cannot sleep on synthetic products, your feather pillow must be dry cleaned at least once every 6 months.
- hands,
- shoulders,
- back.
The bites are very painful, after a while they turn red, swell, and itch.
In order to get rid of lice, you should carry out a complete general cleaning of the house, wash all bedding and clothing in a hot water, and it’s best to boil it. After this, all things need to be ironed.
Be sure to dry clean the pillows, or take them out into the cold or the scorching sun. Do the same with the mattress. This will allow you to forget about bed lice and other unwanted “neighbors” forever.
Finding an insect in a mattress is quite difficult. Bed bugs are very small and can enter furniture through seams. But there are still certain signs that help in the search. The most common methods:
- Presence of odor. The laundry pest has a specific aroma. If, pests have settled in it.
- Presence of debris in the seams of the mattress. When examining the furniture, you can find light husks and remains of insects. It is advisable to check bedding with a flashlight and a magnifying glass. Try not to miss the joints between the headboard, legs and bottom of the bed.
- The appearance of bites on the body. Waking up in the morning, you can find red grooves in different parts bodies.
We fight the pest
In order to quickly get rid of pests, start treating the room from the bed. Bedbugs, therefore, first of all infest furniture that has maximum contact with a sleeping person.
Preparing the mattress
Once you've finished treating the bed, check other hidden places. These bloodsuckers cannot live only in a mattress.
Preventive measures
It is not possible to completely protect your home from pests. But there are options that help worsen their living conditions and reduce the likelihood of their reproduction. The main thing may be the choice of special sockets and timely cosmetic repairs. Here is another list of actions:
- Turn the mattress over frequently and check it for any signs of insects.
- Try not to bring them into the house or carefully inspect them.
- Wear shoe covers in places where bedbugs are likely to spread.
- Don't take other people's furniture off the street.
- Inspect the wallpaper on the walls; there should be no defects on them. In the future, bloodsuckers can move into such places.
- Do not lay parquet on floors.
- Make sure you don't bring bedbugs from school or the street.
What readers say:
Anatoly
Evgenia
“Do bedbugs live in mattresses, I found out from own experience. But such a problem is very difficult to cope with. No matter what measures I took, nothing worked. These bloodsuckers settled so deeply and comfortably on the inside surface of the bed that I had to get rid of the furniture.”
Svetlana
Summarizing the above, we say with confidence that cotton mattresses are excellent refuges for nocturnal bloodsuckers. If you notice an insect in the bed, immediately begin to fight. And don't forget:
- Be meticulous about the things you bring into the house.
- Clean bedding furniture more often.
- Don't delay calling specialists.
Everyone knows for sure what a mosquito looks like. The photo is presented below.
You can notice the presence of mosquitoes in the apartment in the evening. Therefore, you can worry about protective equipment in advance. It's no secret that the best remedy for blood-sucking mosquitoes is ultrasonic repeller. An effective product appeared on our territory about 15 years ago, and still occupies a leading position among all products against mosquitoes in the apartment. The small box just needs to be plugged into a power outlet and you can sleep peacefully. The squeaking of mosquitoes will be heard, they will fly around the body of a sleeping person, but will not be able to bite. Ultrasound affects nervous system insect, it loses orientation in space and cannot find a food source. Forced to leave the apartment through open window either cracks or simply dies without being satisfied.
The situation is much more complicated with other blood-sucking insects. Resourcefulness, endurance, patience, and an effective remedy are required.
House fleas
Small dark-colored insects prefer the blood of pets - cats, dogs. Often they are the ones who bring fleas into the house. Photos and dogs are presented below.
However, there are situations when fleas settle in an apartment and drink human blood in the absence of pets. Then a person may not realize their existence for a long time, and wake up in the morning with bites on his body.
They are treated with alcohol tinctures, aloe juice, ice, soda solution, special medicines from bites blood-sucking insects.
The tracks are messy. Fight fleas spring cleaning with the addition detergent, vinegar, ammonia, lavender oils into water. As well as sprays, aerosols, concentrated solutions. In parallel with cleaning the apartment, pets and their sleeping place.
Linen lice
A louse in the house can appear completely unexpectedly. If previously it was believed that they lived in conditions of absolute unsanitary conditions, now the opinion has changed. For lice, the mess in the room does not play a special role, the main thing is the availability of food. A photo of bed lice is presented below.
Insects bite in places where blood vessels are located closer to the skin. Traces can be found on the arms, legs, back, neck, shoulders, and occasionally on the stomach. A linen louse does not crawl onto your head; there is no point in looking for them there. This is how it differs from the head louse. Although the rest of the behavior, lifestyle, and reproduction are identical.
It is unreasonable to expect that the louse will disappear on its own. Starving her in your absence will not work. A louse can live without blood for about a month. Then it goes into a new stage - suspended animation, waiting favorable conditions life. Thus, the fight against linen louse should be carried out immediately after its detection. If the infection of an apartment is at a small stage, it can be dealt with quickly. Tidy up the bed. Remove bedding, wash at temperatures above 65 degrees Celsius, or even better, boil.
The most terrible blood-sucking insect of all listed. Getting rid of these insects is quite difficult, especially if time is lost and the bugs have managed to multiply. You can see what a bed bug looks like in the photo. Interestingly, a hungry and a well-fed bug differ in both body size and shape. The insect has an elastic translucent chitinous cover. When blood enters the bug's stomach, it enlarges and changes color. A well-fed bedbug has a round, convex body shape and scarlet color. A hungry insect is gray or brown in color, flat, several times smaller. A photo of a hungry and well-fed bug is presented below.
Below is a photo of a child bitten by bedbugs.
There are currently a lot of means to combat bed bugs. The choice depends on the degree of infestation of the apartment by insects, personal preferences, and financial capabilities. You can buy inexpensive chalk “Mashenka” for bedbugs, an expensive modern microencapsulated product used by professionals in the fight against insects. For example, Gett, Delta Zone. Bedbugs are destroyed with an aerosol, a concentrated solution, and general cleaning. It is very important to find a nest of bedbugs and find out the reason for their appearance.
Fleas are unpretentious pests
Cat, basement, earthen, dog - all of these willingly settle in people's apartments and houses. Although they prefer animal blood, human blood is by no means alien to them. And if someone bites in bed at night, they are the first on the list who should be accused of attacking their own blood.
Fleas are different small in size and excellent jumping ability. Catch brown insect, whose body is densely covered with bristles, is almost unreal. Fleas, well aware of their invulnerability, bite a person at any time of the day. Their activity peaks during the day, but if the population is large and food sources are insufficient, hungry individuals can go hunting at night.
Fleas bite without introducing an anesthetic into the puncture site. For this reason, their bites are very painful and are felt immediately. With saliva, the insect introduces an enzyme that prevents blood clotting. The protein structure of the substance provokes the appearance allergic reactions. A red blister appears on the spot, sometimes covered with a purulent crust.
Note!
Like bedbugs, fleas bite several times and leave behind a chain of several punctures. Unlike the linear track of bedbugs, their bites are not located in a row, but chaotically (see photo).
Karina, Belgorod
In addition to bedbugs, lice can also bite in bed. It is quite easy to distinguish them from other bloodsuckers by their location. live in the hairline. They create their settlements in the hair on the head, they can be in the armpits, in intimate places, on the hairline of the abdomen, where they feed and reproduce. Traces are accordingly also found directly in habitats.
Interesting!
During the Middle Ages in Europe, not washing was considered a special sign of holiness, and lice were called “pearls of God.” Among the population, searching each other for hairy inhabitants was a sign of strong friendship.
My friend began to complain about night bites, but there were no obvious signs. We began to make fun of her, saying that invisible bugs were biting her. After going to the hairdresser, she returned in tears. It turned out that she had lice. , unclear. My friend has always been very clean and the appearance of such shameful insects does not in any way correspond to her lifestyle.
Victoria, Moscow
- the most harmless nominees for the role of culprits who bite in bed at night. Unlike silent bedbugs, their presence is accompanied by an annoying squeak. They feel great in natural natural conditions, and in city apartments and houses. And if you can hide from other blood-sucking insects in other uninfected rooms, then you can’t hide from mosquitoes anywhere.
Females drink blood; they need nutrition to reproduce. They bite on any exposed areas of the body. A large blister and severe itching appears at the site of the bite. Unlike traces of fleas and bedbugs, puncture sites are located chaotically without any hint of a chain or path.
Omnivorous cockroaches
No matter how strange it may sound, not only bedbugs and other bloodsuckers can bite at night, but also. There have been proven and recorded cases of cockroaches gnawing off the eyelashes of infants, the skin near the lips and nails. A shortage of food resources and moisture caused by an overabundance of individuals in the colony can induce an insect to eat flesh.
– a rather rare phenomenon. Much more often they cannot get out of it on their own. If such a situation arises, you should immediately consult a doctor, who, using a special syringe and other medical equipment, will wash the insolent person with water pressure and remove it from the hearing organ.
In a person’s home, all conditions have been created not only for the comfort and coziness of the residents, but also great place, attracting various types of insects. Ants, bedbugs, fleas, cockroaches and others settle in entire families in a person’s home.
This kind of neighborhood to modern man not to your liking, so there are a huge variety different recipes, methods and methods of dealing with annoying neighbors. One of the most basic preventative measures against them is regular cleaning, although if you already have neighbors, this will not help get rid of them.
If cockroaches and ants are localized mainly in the kitchen, where they have something to eat, then pests such as fleas or bedbugs can appear in the bedroom. Therefore, if you find red spots on your body after sleep, take action immediately - there are most likely bugs and fleas in your bed.
What kind of insects can live in bed?
If in the morning after sleep you find many small wounds on your body, then have no doubt - these are bites that pests left you.
Who could it be?
Depending on the time of year, these could be mosquitoes, fleas, lice or bedbugs. The latter are the most difficult option, since getting rid of them is quite difficult.
If you have been bitten by mosquitoes, the best remedy for them will be a fumigator with plates or liquid. If you turn it on at night, nothing will disturb your sleep. Another sign that these were mosquitoes is a characteristic sound; you can’t help but hear them; you can find them on the ceiling and walls in the room.
If you have a pet sleeping in your bed, it is likely that you have fleas. Signs of these are that after sleep the body is very itchy, itchy at the sites of the bites. They differ in that there are many of them, they look like a rash, they are small wounds that cause a lot of discomfort.
Another option could be bedbugs; they are quite difficult to detect since they are nocturnal. Usually they live in whole families, but the nest may not be located in your bed at all, but, for example, in a closet with things, under upholstery, and so on. If you suspect that you have bedbugs in your bed, you must immediately begin to destroy them. Why are they dangerous? They can carry diseases that are transmitted through blood. An interesting fact is that when a bug bites, it first releases an anesthetic substance, so during this action you will not be able to catch it. The bite site begins to itch and hurt very much after the bug has already drunk your blood.
How to detect insects in bed?
Before you understand what to do in order to get rid of annoying neighbors, you need to determine exactly who you are dealing with. The main signs of insects in bed are as follows:
- on the body, bites are located on smooth areas without hair;
- bedbugs usually choose thin skin that can easily be bitten through;
- wounds on the body look like allergies, the skin around the bite turns red and inflamed;
- if you have bed linen white, then you may find small blood stains on it;
- you can notice an uncharacteristic smell in the room, they usually say “it smells like bedbugs”, in reality they have unpleasant smell, which can be determined if you have already encountered this problem;
- It is almost impossible to detect bedbugs during the day with the naked eye.
Bed bugs are small bugs, which settle in secluded places and go hunting at night. Therefore, you need to look for them in corners, under the mattress, on the windowsill, on picture frames, and so on.
What insects bite in bed?
If after sleep you find many bites on your body, then you need to immediately determine what kind of insect it is. There are often bedbugs in bed. Their presence can be suspected not only by bites on the body, but also by characteristic drops of blood on the bed linen. After a bite, the blood does not clot immediately, and if the person turns over, the blood will be smeared.
Bedbugs can attack anyone, but most often women and children are bitten, since their skin is thinner.
If you determine that there are insects such as bedbugs in your bed, take action. To relieve itching, use ointment for allergies to insect bites, and for baiting, use sprays and aerosols against bedbugs.
How to treat insect bites in bed?
Bites cause severe itching, redness, inflammation and burning, so first aid should be provided immediately. There are a lot folk recipes which will help reduce discomfort.
a solution of vinegar and soda;
soap-vinegar solution;
parsley and potato juice, apply ice;
soda solution.
Treat the bite area and do not scratch it under any circumstances.
How to get rid of insects in bed?
It is best to find the nest of bedbugs, but this is not always possible, since they hide under the upholstery of furniture, where they are not easy to detect.
In order to get rid of bed insects it is necessary to vacuum the furniture, mattresses, pillows. After cleaning, the bag must be burned. After this, treat the furniture with modern means, this could be an aerosol or a special liquid against bedbugs. After this, vacuum and clean the furniture again. Bed linen should be washed when high temperatures Oh. Be prepared for the fact that you will have to do this several times.
Insect repellent in bed
The most effective means against bedbugs there are modern proven drugs, among which we can note “Tetrix”, “Fufanon Super”, “Kombat”, “Forsyth”, “Tsifoks”, “Executioner”.
There are bugs in the sofa, what should I do?
If there are bugs in the sofa, then you need to take the following measures:
vacuum the sofa;
treat it with a special agent;
clean it.
Insects in the apartment are afraid of too high temperatures and die from frost. So, if possible, the furniture should be treated with steam and the bedding should be washed in hot water. If this happens in winter, then you can take furniture, pillows, blankets, and so on out into the cold.
In any case, when insects large number, you should call a professional pest control service, which will treat all hard-to-reach areas of your home and clear it of pests.