In recent years, an invasion of bloodsuckers has been celebrated around the world. They attack people in their homes. Traveling with their victims on airplanes and trains. From them not to hide, neither in a modest dwelling, nor in a five-star hotel. These lines are not the beginning of a script for a thriller.
Vampire really stuck to humanity. His name is a bed bug.
Whether these parasites can come from neighboring apartments and what to do if their neighbors have bloodsheds, but they do not poison them, how to defend themselves - read on.
How can insects go to you?
There are many paths that lead the bloodsucker to our home:
- We inherited from the previous owners of the premises.
- Moved to us along with old furniture, paintings, photos within.
- It turned out to be an unpleasant addition to the donated parrot in a luxurious cage with secluded corners.
- Brought to the house from a trip, in a suitcase.
- Crawling from the neighbors.
Warning signs
It is very important to pay attention in time to the signs of the appearance of these insects in the apartment because the earlier the fight with the enemy begins, the easier it is to defeat it.
The breeding rate of bedbugs is phenomenal. One female lays up to fifteen eggs per day. From each testicle, a larva is obtained, which looks like an adult. She should eat at least once every four days. And this food will receive a vampire at the expense of the landlord and his household.
How to understand that unwanted guests visited you:
- After sleep, the person finds marks on the body from bites.
In a quarter of the population, the bug bite does not cause any physiological response, except disgust. The rest are much less fortunate. Allergic manifestations can range from a path of small red spots, to itchy blisters with a large coin. Especially bugs prefer the delicate skin of children and women.
- On the bedclothes there are bloody traces of insects accidentally crushed in a dream.
- On the wall, under the bedside carpet or panel, visible small dark dots.
- In upholstered furniture, bedside tables, under plinths or lagging behind wallpaper, in any nook you can find a colony of bed bugs. They do not carry the place where the light falls, so carefully examine all the dark nooks and see adult creatures and their larvae.
- The bedbug protects its territory with a pungent smell. Therefore, begin to worry and go in search of the lair, as soon as you feel the scent unusual for your apartment.
How to understand that they came from a nearby apartment?
There was a big trouble - you found in your bedbugs. And you know for sure that none of the family members traveled, new items appeared in your home, and they could only get to you from their neighbors. To decisively act further, it is necessary to understand - The availability of clogs is not associated with cleanliness.
Excessive delicacy in this case can do a disservice. Good neighbors will thank you for the warning, and with the bad ones it will be easier for the whole world to cope.
Bedbugs move easily through communications of an apartment building. The walls are not an obstacle for them, because due to their small size, the insect travels through air vents, joint sockets, gaps around water and heating pipes, etc. There is evidence that these insects are only able to settle in the standard nine-storey building in only three summer months.
How to protect yourself if you have bred near and do not poison the bloodsuckers?
Living in a city, typical, multi-storey building, we sometimes are not familiar with the people living behind the wall. Or, on the contrary, we know very well that there is a “bad apartment” at the entrance. The first suspicions about the hotbed of infection will fall specifically on disadvantaged tenants. And it is possible that they will not be able to agree on sanitary treatment of the premises. Probably, these people can promise you to do everything possible, but not to do anything, or not to perform all the activities.
In another situation, bugs can run to you from neighbors who are fighting with them in order to escape from destruction. Therefore, without losing time, in our own housing we seal up all the gaps with sealant, alabaster, and any suitable material. Do not forget about ventilation and general electrical outlets.
ATTENTION! It doesn't matter what kind of people live next to you when it comes to bedbugs infection. The main thing is to isolate your apartment as much as possible from the penetration of insects and start a joint struggle.
Where to go if insects appear?
Where to complain if the bloodsuckers climb to you from the neighbors; can we ask the management company to rid us of harmful insects?
The answer is “yes” if it is clearly stated in your agreement with the Criminal Code. But here there is one unpleasant nuance - in the area of responsibility of the company, only the common house territory is included. Everything that starts from the threshold of the apartment is our concern.
Bedbugs will settle at the entrance last. And only if it is a comfortable, warm room, provided that there are so many of them that in the apartments there is no place for creating new nests. This insect prefers to live near the feeder - in a person’s bed or very close to it. Recall its name - BED CLOTHES.
The main benefit, from attracting the management company to the chemical treatment of the driveway, will be to broadly inform residents that there is an unpleasant problem in the house.
Write a statement to the Criminal Code, with reference to the existing contract and get this organization to perform its duties. The more such requests come from residents of the house, the faster the staircase will be processed.
Attracting the police to instruct careless tenants - bedbugs, as a rule, remain unheeded. Appeals to the district SES are usually also not effective. At best, they will advise you on how to infect insect parasites and provide you with the necessary chemicals.
How to protect your home?
It makes no sense to spend precious time to clarify the question - "why do we need it?" and "who should poison the bugs?". As long as we think, the creatures breed.
Immediately perform the following steps:
- We inform all tenants. We hang out at the entrance a short announcement - "IN THE HOUSE OF CLOTHES! TAKE MEASURES!" This will serve as a sufficient signal to all who are not indifferent. Most flip their apartments and handle for prevention.
- We write applications from the majority of apartments to the management company (MC).
- If the Criminal Code does not help to resolve the issue, contact the Housing Inspectorate. The statement sets out the essence of the problem that violates our civil rights.
- We write complaints:
- to the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Surveillance Center. We demand to take measures to negligent neighbors, due to the danger of an epidemic (AIDS, hepatitis, etc.), from the domination of blood-sicking insects;
- Rospotrebnadzor with a request for a sanitary-epidemiological examination of the "bad" apartment.
IMPORTANT! All appeals to the supervisory authorities are sent by registered mail with notification. We keep copies of our letters and received answers for further action.
- We release our apartment from impostors on our own or with the help of a specialized company.
No living creature can live long in a place where it is constantly striving to kill. Deprive the bedbugs of peace and comfort, and the victory in this difficult struggle will be yours.
