Bedbug Passions: Insects in the Sofa

Imagine: you lay down on a soft sofa after a hard day at work and are preparing to leave for the kingdom of Morpheus. But suddenly something living in your furniture makes sleep disappear. What is this "something"? What worst enemies of rest are swarming in the sofa? The answer is simple: bedbugs in your long-suffering sofa. Nasty insects capable of turning a person's sleep time into a real hell. The topic is very relevant and burning, especially if uninvited guests have settled in your house, in the place of the bed.

Have bedbugs "taken up residence" in the place where the sofa used to be?

Why do horrible creatures settle in sofas in a person's apartment? Elementary. Insects try to settle closer to you to arrange feasts for themselves and not go far. When a person sleeps, he is defenseless and may not wake up from bites. Suck blood as much as you like, the victim will not even feel it.

The next reason for bedbugs to live in an apartment in a place where a person rests is the insect's extraordinary olfactory abilities. The bedbug catches the carbon dioxide released from your breath, realizing that the victim has fallen asleep and can start eating. The parasites become active during a person's sleep, and the kitchen is arranged in the place of the bed.

How do parasites get into a person's home? The reasons for the infestation of a home by bedbugs are different.

1. They can be brought into the apartment with bags, sacks or boxes that have come into contact with contaminated furniture.
2. Bedbugs will come running from the infested sofas of neighbors, using communications, ventilation or through the places of holes in through sockets.

   

3. Bedbugs can be brought into a home with cabinets, chairs and other furniture during a move.

   

4. You have just returned from a trip and insects have arrived on your suitcases or bags.

No matter how bedbugs get into your home, they will try to stay close to a person. The reproduction of insects will begin when the creatures settle on a bed or other bed and drink blood.

Recognize the enemy

What signs can indicate that a sofa in an apartment has been attacked by bedbugs?

1. Traces of blood will appear on the bedding. Parasites bite through the skin: marks and traces will remain on the sheets.

   

2. After this, dark dots will appear near the sofa. Bedbugs are living creatures, they relieve themselves near their habitat. The dots are insect feces.

   

3. Bite marks will appear on the skin.

   

4. The apartment will start to smell special after a bedbug attack. The smell will intensify near the sofa. This feature will manifest itself when the number of parasites approaches an impressive amount. Each person smells very subjectively, and we cannot formulate exactly what smell you will feel. Some people claim that it starts to smell like almonds, others think that it stinks of spoiled berries.

Conduct a test in your apartment for the listed points. If you find at least one of the declared features in the house, there are probably bedbugs in the sofa in the house.

Another test option is to wake up early in the morning and turn on a lamp. It is quite possible that you will be able to see insects fleeing.

Pest Control: Sofa Treatment

When you realize that your furniture is attacked by bedbugs, you will need to perform a number of manipulations.

1. Move from the affected sofa to another bed to prevent bed bugs from biting you again.
2. Another way to combat this: the sofa needs to be moved away from the walls, you can even move it to the middle of the room.
3. Take a brush and thoroughly clean the inside of the bed or sofa, including the linen drawers.
4. How to remove bedbugs from a sofa yourself? Use a vacuum cleaner to clean the bed. And if the bed comes with a mattress, it should be treated outside.
5. All joint elements of the sofa should be thoroughly treated with boiling water.

   

6. Bedbugs in an apartment choose the headboard of the bed as their place of residence. They hide under the fabric, where the material is attached to the bed or sofa with staples. If the number of parasites is large, before treating the bed with chemicals, arm yourself with a vacuum cleaner, because disturbed insects can crawl all over the house.

   

7. Read the final section of the article, which talks about folk remedies for fighting bedbugs.

Fighting parasites using grandma's recipe

Try to fight bedbugs with folk remedies, but this is relevant if the number of parasites is not off the charts.

1. Use a vacuum cleaner or a slipper.

   

2. Treat the sofa with hot water. Or take the sofa outside in winter.

   

3. Buy wormwood or tansy and place them around the house. It is said that insects do not like the smell of herbs.

   

4. Afterwards, it is necessary to use strong-smelling chemicals: turpentine, kerosene, naphthalene.

   

5. Treat the bed with vinegar, aviation fluid, denatured alcohol or kerosene.

Scattered herbs with a strong smell will not make bedbugs leave your home, but you will achieve a slight lull in their activity. When using herbs with a strong smell, remember that tansy is poisonous and should not be used if there are small children, cats or dogs living in the house.

Strong smelling chemicals for treating the sofa are not able to drive away insects from the house. Vinegar or mothballs will only slow down the offensive military operations of the insidious insects. As you understand, it is unlikely that stunning results can be achieved with the help of folk methods of fighting bedbugs.

These are auxiliary means that, in combination with professional struggle, will lead to a positive result. We hope that now you will forget what it is like to have bedbugs in your long-suffering sofa.

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