What caused the bugs in the sofa: reasons for the appearance, the main ways of penetration, the first signs

Glad to see you on the pages of my blog! Bed bugs are a delicate problem that people always report with constraint. And they almost always make excuses, they say, the house is clean, but these parasites ... Indeed, very often it’s just not clear what bugs got in the sofa, closet or under the carpet.

And the presence of these parasites does not mean that the owners are unclean or lead an unhealthy lifestyle. Today I’ll tell you where bugs can come from, and when the owner’s fault is in their appearance, and when not. Details below!

Bedbugs on the couch

Bed bugs - this is the name of the blood-sucking insects that live in upholstered furniture: mattresses, sofas, armchairs, beds. Located here, pests are in close proximity to the human body.

Every night they come to the surface, penetrate the skin, then bite them drink blood. In places of bites, itching wounds remain, causing discomfort to the person and disturbing his sleep. The article will talk about the features of these parasites - bed bugs and how to get bugs out of the couch.

Causes of bed bugs on the couch

To explain where the bugs are from in the sofa, one should note their features:

• they move along the ventilation or outer walls of apartments at a speed of about 1 m per minute;
• bloodsuckers freely penetrate through windows, even if a mosquito net is installed on them: in this case, they squeeze between its frame and the window frame;
• parasites prefer to take refuge in warm, dry and hard-to-reach places: for example, under the upholstery and in the folds of upholstered furniture, including a sofa;
• they can live for a long time without food in secluded places, so they often appear in the house with old things.

The main ways of penetration of furniture bugs into the living room:

1. From the cellars, where they parasitize on rodents and homeless animals.
2. Together with furniture, not only second-hand, but also new. If the sofa or chairs were stored in unsatisfactory conditions, then in their joints and folds there may well be bugs.
3. From the neighboring apartment. The flat shape of the body allows the furniture bug to squeeze effortlessly into adjacent rooms through air vents, sockets and any gaps. Most often, the migration of these parasites occurs in old high-rise buildings, especially those located in the suburbs.
4. Along with bought old things and antiques. Blood-sucking insects hide not only in furniture, mattresses, but also in soft toys, clothes, as well as household appliances and electronics.

Bedbugs can appear on the couch and other pieces of furniture due to the fault of the owners of the apartment or house. Firstly, poor-quality room cleaning increases the risk of settlement and the development of parasites in living rooms.

Secondly, bloodsucking can literally bring on yourself. This often happens after living in budget hotels where bedding and furniture are not properly monitored.

The first signs of bedbugs in upholstered furniture

The following signs indicate that the bedbugs wound up on the couch:

• Black stains on furniture and bedding. These are the vital products of blood-sucking parasites.
• Spot bites on the skin in the form of a track that appear 1-2 times a week: bed bugs do not feed on blood every day. In one night, a person can get about 500 bites. The bite site is a swelling with a bright red dot in the center.
• The appearance of an unpleasant odor. A specific smell emanates from bugs, which is compared with the aroma of nutmeg, rotten raspberries or cheap cognac. Furniture in which these blood-sucking insects parasitize acquires a stale musty smell.
• Traces of blood on the skin and bedding. They remain after insect bites, as well as if a person, changing the position of the body in a dream, crushed them. Traces of bedbug excrement are observed not only on the piece of furniture that they occupied: black dots appear within a radius of 3-5 m from it, on the walls, in the area of ​​baseboards. Bedbug bites not only cause discomfort: they can cause allergic reactions, the formation of ulcers with the addition of a secondary infection, and in severe cases, iron deficiency anemia.

How to detect bugs on the couch

Everyone who is faced with the problem of the appearance of blood-sucking insects is looking for ways to get rid of bugs in the couch. The first thing to do is find a nest of parasites.

What to look for when inspecting furniture

When inspecting furniture, we advise you to look not only for adults, but also eggs laid by them, as well as larvae. The body of a sexually mature bug has a flattened shape, its size does not exceed 3-4 mm, if the parasite is hungry. If it is saturated, then the dimensions reach 8 mm.

The color of the body of a blood-sucking insect also depends on satiety and varies from light brown to a saturated brown shade.

Bedbug eggs resemble rice, each size is no more than 1 mm. You can only view them with a magnifier. Parasites lay eggs in hard-to-reach areas of furniture.

The size of the larvae of bed bugs reaches 0.5-2 mm. The body shape is the same as in adults. The main difference is that the body of the larvae is colorless: it is transparent.

How to find nests on the couch

To find parasite nests in the sofa, you need to lay out the furniture and arm yourself with a magnifying glass. Inspection begins with internal surfaces, paying particular attention to gaps and indentations.

You can examine them using a plastic card: gray husks, black dots, eggs will appear on its surface. It is not enough to examine the sofa: move it away and look at its back, as well as the wall.

Dislocation of parasites in the structure

Bed bugs parasitize at night, and during the day hide in secluded places in upholstered furniture. Most often they are located in the area:

1. armrests;
2. joints of a wooden frame;
3. hardware fittings;
4. bottom.

Bed bugs get the best conditions for parasitizing in cloth sofas - especially those that are covered with a blanket on top. Less commonly, bloodsuckers penetrate leather sofas.

How to lure parasites to the surface

To force the bugs to leave the sofa, you need:

• Make noise: knock on furniture, move it to the side. The awakened insects will come out.
• Affect them at low temperature. Parasites do not tolerate such conditions, so in winter you can open all the windows in the room and leave them in this position for several hours.
• Exposure to heat. Bed bugs do not tolerate temperatures above 45 degrees.To make them leave the nooks of the sofa, it is advised to use a steam generator or an iron with a steamer. The outside of the sofa can be ironed.

Bedbugs that have come out of nooks can be destroyed mechanically, that is, crushed.

Can there be bedbugs in a new sofa

Sometimes bugs get into the living room with new pieces of furniture. They can infect it at any stage of production and sale: from the preparation of lumber and upholstery to storage in a warehouse.

About once a month, people who bought a new sofa in a store turn to our service, and after that bites began to appear.

Do I throw a sofa with bedbugs

Blood-sucking insects do not necessarily disappear from the apartment or house, even if you throw away an infected piece of furniture. The fact is that a sofa can be only one of the many places in which they "sheltered": with a large-scale invasion, they can hide in armchairs, mattresses, behind carpets and baseboards.

Blood-sucking insects will disappear only if they only have time to occupy the sofa. As practice shows, this rarely happens, so throwing furniture away does not help.

Processing a sofa from bedbugs

It is not easy to cope with bed ticks on your own: if most of the adults can be destroyed, then it is not easy to get to the eggs laid by them. The most reliable method of dealing with “uninvited guests” is to call a special service.

The following video shows the process of processing a sofa from bedbugs using a steam generator. In this way, insects can be destroyed in folds, upholstery seams and sofa cushions. Independent processing includes the use of insecticides and the use of folk remedies.

How to quickly get sofa bugs

To quickly remove pests, you can use the heat treatment method. For the procedure you will need:

1. household steam cleaner;
2. industrial (construction) hair dryer;
3. Washer.

This method works, since a temperature above +50 degrees kills both bugs and their larvae and eggs. First, remove the bedding and place it in the washing machine, setting the mode to 60 degrees or higher.

Disassemble the wooden frame of the sofa as much as possible, and heat all its elements with an industrial (construction) hairdryer. Processing should take at least an hour. Soft parts of the sofa should be heated with a hairdryer and a steam cleaner, depending on the availability of the site.

How to wash stains from bugs on the couch

After eliminating the parasites, another problem remains: small black spots from excrement. To get rid of them, you need:

• Wet black dots with cold water immediately after they are detected. The liquid should not be hot: the spots are of organic origin, so water with a low temperature will weaken its adhesion to the material of the sofa or fabric.
• To treat stains with a composition of hydrogen peroxide and ammonia mixed in equal proportions. Such a tool can lighten the fabric, so it is recommended to use it as carefully as possible. You can apply the composition with a spray. If the black dots remain in hard-to-reach places, then you can moisten a cotton swab in the liquid and gently rub it with the area of ​​pollution.
• Rub the stains with a microfiber cloth. This method is suitable if the pollution is fresh. To enhance the effect, the rag can be slightly moistened with liquid soap.

It is much easier to prevent the occurrence of bugs in the room than to bring them out. To prevent the invasion of these parasites, it is recommended to put bundles of dry lavender in the ventilation ducts through which they can move.

It needs to be changed every 2-3 weeks. It is also required to inspect all rooms to detect gaps. Even the smallest of them must be treated with silicone sealant.

Bedbugs on the couch

Bed bugs are nicknamed "bed" because of the natural habit of nesting next to a person’s bed. The secretive lifestyle of nocturnal parasites requires that a safe shelter be located closer to the food source.

Upholstered furniture is designed for a cozy evening rest and for sleeping. Therefore, bugs in a sofa or easy chair settle willingly, besides there are so many secluded places to hide.

What makes bedbugs on the couch

Here are 5 possible ways from where bugs appear on the couch:

1. The first way - with clothes or other things of the tenant of the apartment, who visited the infected room. Bloodsuckers are often found at home 2-3 weeks after returning from a trip or work trip.
2. In the same way, bugs are brought by friends or relatives (of course, not on purpose) when they come to visit. This is due to the fact that some do not show any reaction to bites, and they, unaware of bed bugs, manage to infect others. It is difficult to believe this, but in 30-40% of cases, people find bed bugs at home 4-6 months after the onset of infection or later.
3. Another running route of bugs is from neighbors through house communications, cracks and holes in the ceilings and walls. All these are not direct, but indirect reasons for the appearance of bedbugs on the couch - the parasites first get into the apartment, and there already a natural flair shows them the way to the couch. But sometimes bloodsuckers penetrate the home directly with upholstered furniture.
4. I remember that on one application the client said that he had bought a used sofa with an ad, as it later turned out, with bedbugs - an unpleasant surprise. And such cases are not uncommon, therefore I do not advise anyone to buy sofas from their hands and even take them for free.
5. But it happens to bring bugs in a new sofa from the store. In the warehouses of shopping centers, where dozens or hundreds of people work, the accidental appearance of bugs is impossible to notice. So the purchase of new furniture is also associated with the risk of getting unexpected "guests".

How to detect bugs on the couch

The size of bed bugs is quite perceptible to the human eye. But by nature, these insects hide so skillfully that it is not easy to notice them, especially in the first weeks of infection. Here are simple tips on how to detect bugs in a sofa or bed:

• Bites As already mentioned, bite marks do not appear in everyone, but their appearance should definitely alert. In appearance, these are redness on the skin 2-5 mm in diameter, which, when allergic, develop into blisters. Bedbug bites are similar to mosquito bites and itch in the same way. Appear in the morning, often 2-3 bites close together.
• According to statistics, children and young women are more sensitive than others to bedbugs, and in older people, on the contrary, the skin reaction is less likely than others. But these patterns have exceptions. In every fourth case, bedbug bites are initially mistaken for allergies or other skin diseases, and even doctors sometimes make erroneous diagnoses.
• Blood stains on bedding or pajamas. These are traces of a sloppy meal of a parasite, or a person accidentally crushed an insect, tossing and turning in a dream. Bloody stains are a clear sign of bedbugs, do not ignore it, even if there are no bites on the body.
• Black dots are fecal spots or digested blood the size of a dot from a gel pen. Such spots accumulate in the daytime shelters of bedbugs, but sometimes remain on the bed, on a white fabric are clearly visible.

The first signs of bed bugs

Each of these signs is a signal to carry out a thorough examination of the sofa. But before proceeding to the inspection, to begin with, we clearly indicate what exactly should be sought:

How to find bedbugs on your couch

In various designs of different models of sofas, bedbugs find places convenient for shelters. For example, in click-gag sofas, parasites populate gum, seams and zippers on the covers on the wrong side and the joining of wooden battens with the metal frame of the frame.

If you understand by what principle bed bugs arrange shelters in sofas, then finding them in any model will be a matter of technology. I propose to break away for a short time from the article and watch the video tutorial “How to find bugs in the couch”.

Using five different models as an example, I will show you in what order to conduct an inspection, and I will reveal 10 secret places in sofas where bedbugs arrange nests.

How to get bedbugs out of the sofa yourself

Immediately make a reservation that processing the sofa from bedbugs makes sense only in combination with the processing of the entire living space, otherwise it is a waste of work.

Be prepared that this matter will take half a day or even all day, depending on the degree of infection and the clutter of the rooms. So, how to get bedbugs out of the sofa:

A vacuum cleaner

We collect with a vacuum cleaner all the living bugs, eggs and dry skins that we managed to find. Firstly, this will prevent the spread of frightened insects around the house, and secondly, it will clear the field for further actions.

Dust and debris accumulated under the sofa and in the internal cavities will obviously interfere, so that you can not do without a vacuum cleaner.

Keep in mind that bugs do not die in the vacuum cleaner, so that at the end of the procedures, the collected garbage is immediately packed in a plastic bag and discarded. Bed bugs and their feces cause allergies, so we use a vacuum cleaner equipped with a HEPA filter.

Steam generator or hot air gun

We process areas inaccessible to a vacuum cleaner with steam or hot air: folds, seams, zippers. Bed bugs climb into slots the thickness of a plastic card and lay eggs there.

Heat treatment will penetrate into inaccessible places. From the direct action of temperature + 100˚C bugs and eggs die in 3-5 seconds. Be careful not to get burned or ruin delicate materials.

Insecticide

We disassemble the sofa, separating the components from each other, and spray on all sides with a chemical preparation to destroy the bugs. Carefully we pass cracks, joints, fastenings, connections of wooden elements with an upholstery, seams, folds, an edge, the bottom, legs, armrests.

It gives a detailed description of drugs of different chemical classes and formulations, which will tell you how to better process a sofa from bedbugs. During operation, we use protective equipment: a respirator, rubber gloves, clothes with a long sleeve.

To enhance the effect of chemical treatment and prevent the spread of bedbugs from the sofa around the room, the so-called encapsulation is used. In this case, it is ideal to completely close the sofa into a cover made of dense material with a zipper fastener.

Or just wrap it with a film, reliably gluing the joints with tape. The main thing is that the packaging is tight. Encapsulation is an additional measure.

After processing (immediately or after a couple of hours), intensively ventilate the room for 3-4 hours and do a wet cleaning. Cover the sofa with a blanket.

Diatomite (or diatomaceous earth)

Mineral-based powder, non-toxic to humans and pets, but harmful to insects. A find for opponents of chemistry, concerned about the question of whether it is possible to get bedbugs by natural means. Of course, diatomite alone cannot be used to bring the entire colony out of the sofa, but it will certainly be possible to reduce its number.

Using a regular syringe, we apply diatomite to the joints of wooden structures, internal metal joints, fasteners, holes and slots.

It is desirable that diatomite remains on surfaces for at least 5 days, and if it does not cause aesthetic discomfort, then as long as possible. It should not be removed with a vacuum cleaner, as this is detrimental to the filter, and in addition, the vacuum cleaner will scatter diatomite particles in the air, which is not good for breathing.

We collect the powder with a damp cloth or a neat brush, while sprinkling a little water from the spray gun to nail the particles.

Prevention

After processing, inspect the sofa once every 5-7 days and regularly vacuum it. Repeat the same heat treatment with steam or a hot hairdryer.

So, bed bugs on the couch is a problem, but the problem is solved. If you had to face it, do not rush to throw out the sofa. In most cases, upholstered furniture can be saved.

By diligently following this instruction, you will not leave any chance to bedbugs. Let only positive emotions be connected with the sofa!

What makes bedbugs on the couch

Bed bugs most often settle in sofas and beds, since here they are closest to the food source - the sleeping person.

Since they do not eat anything other than human blood in the apartment, they have to constantly move from shelter to a sleeping person for food. The sofa itself, on which people constantly sleep, is ideal for arranging such bed bugs nests perfectly. Judge for yourself:

1. From the nest in the sofa, the bug needs to move quite a bit to bite a person and drink blood. The less he has to run, the lower the risk of getting caught in the eyes of a person and being destroyed. In the sofa, this risk is minimal: the insect needs to literally crawl from one side of the mattress or the upholstery to the other - and that’s all, breakfast (or dinner) is served;
2. Then, in sofas there are a lot of places suitable for arranging nests. The folds of the upholstery, the joints of the pillows, the cavity between the upholstery and the frame, the cracks in the joints of the frames are almost perfect shelters. Here bugs are difficult to get, but thanks to the narrow body, each parasite reliably hides from prying eyes. In our practice, there were many cases when the sofa had to be taken apart literally to the bolt, including tearing all the hardboard and fabric from it to get to the well-hidden nests of bedbugs - with eggs and nymphs;
3. Finally, sofas have more complex structures suitable for shelters than simple beds. Here large numbers of bedbugs can safely hide, here it is more difficult to find, and if you can find it, it is more difficult to get them out of here, especially - on your own, without the services of a pest control.

Simply put, sofas are the safest and most comfortable place for bed bugs to live. There is nothing surprising in the fact that if they appear indoors, then they reproduce in the greatest quantities right here, in sofas.

If bugs live in the neighbors, and your apartment does not have a very high-quality repair, almost certainly the parasites will sooner or later come to you too. And first of all, they will settle near the places where you sleep. Are you sleeping on the couch? Near him and in himself, they will surely settle.

So, keep in mind that bedbugs cannot live anywhere except for apartments and houses. Very small wild populations of them live in caves in Turkmenistan, feeding on the blood of bats, but the majority of these parasites live in human housing.

There are no specific reasons for their appearance in the apartment in general or in the sofa in particular - when they have the opportunity to settle in neighboring rooms or accidentally get here, they settle and start to multiply in a new place, trying to be closer to the victim - the person.

In fact, if the bugs were in the apartment, they no longer have a choice: in order to survive, they need to start biting people. Therefore, one does not need to look for any malicious intent in their appearance on the couch: they either ended up here by chance, with a suitcase or furniture, or climbed on their own if their neighbors had little food or danger (for example, neighbors treated the apartment with an insecticide).

That is why bed bugs are often called sofas. This is not entirely correct, there is no separate type of “sofa” bugs - these are the same insects that live, for example, behind baseboards, behind cabinets, under parquet. They also look, do the same harm, and are deduced in the same ways.

Keep in mind that believing that bedbugs live only on the couch is a mistake. Most often, this impression is created due to the fact that a person bugs only bother when he sleeps on the couch.

Therefore, questions often arise, how to get bedbugs on the couch without touching the rest of the apartment. In fact, bedbugs can climb onto a sofa at night because of skirting boards, because of cabinets and from under parquet. And if you don’t get them out of here, you won’t be able to completely get rid of them.

How to find bugs on the couch and generally find out whether they are hiding in the couch, or somewhere nearby? Still, it may well be that they bite a person sleeping on a couch, but then hide in other places after that. So, finding them is simple, and at the same time difficult.

How to detect bugs on the couch

Why are bed bugs difficult to find? Because to detect bugs you need to disassemble the sofa. And not just open it and examine the internal cavities - there may not be any bugs here, because all of them are hiding in more secluded places during the day.

And precisely because such work is time-consuming and requires great efforts not only to disassemble the sofa, but also to assemble it later, few people spend it.

And, by the way, precisely because it is very difficult to disassemble the sofa and then assemble it back, many people do not do this when processing.

Therefore, they can’t get the bugs out on their own - they seem to use the same tools that we specialists use, and they do everything according to the instructions, but they simply don’t get to the main nests and the bugs remain alive there.

This is one of the secrets of successful processing - you need to find all the places of shelter of parasites in the house, even if for this you need to disassemble the sofa, tear off the skirting board or raise the parquet.

Otherwise, pest control will be carried out endlessly, and bed bugs will not disappear anywhere. People do not want to do this on their own, and therefore they can’t get rid of bugs. We do this and get bed bugs.

If you made out the sofa and the bugs there really are, it is impossible not to notice their presence. Firstly, excrement will come across the eyes - small black balls less than a millimeter in diameter.

The nymphs have a slightly smaller body, but are more elongated and brighter, the young nymphs are generally whitish, translucent, and those fed up in the abdomen show fresh blood.

In the places where the bugs accumulate, their eggs are also white, elongated in length, but still small - about 2-3 mm.

As a rule, it is the nests where the bedbugs of different ages, eggs and excrement are found most quickly. Nevertheless, in the sofa you should carefully bend down and look at all the seams, folds, joints - here you can find individual hidden individuals, especially adults.

By the way, if insects live in a sofa for a long time, it is easiest to determine the infection of furniture by the abundance of skins from molted nymphs.

Each bug during its life is thrown 4 skins of different sizes, and therefore for several months of their reproduction whole deposits of such chitinous covers accumulate here. Such "symptoms" are enough to diagnose the infection of the couch by bedbugs.

By the smell and some indirect signs, it is difficult to determine the presence of bedbugs specifically in the sofa. Surely this can be done by finding parasites here.

For this reason, by the way, it is advisable to check the second-hand sofa by examining it. It will not be pleasant at all to pay money for such a soft box with bloodsuckers ...

The purchase of a new sofa just coincided in time with the mass reproduction of parasites, they populated it and people got the impression that they bought the sofa already “stuffed”.

If you find bugs - they need to be poisoned. If you didn’t find it, but there are suspicions that they still live somewhere in the house, you need to look in other places - in other beds and sofas, in armchairs, behind skirting boards, behind lagging wallpaper - wherever there are secluded places, from which parasites can reach a person’s resting place in several minutes.

Therefore, by the way, you should not expect that if you throw out the sofa, then the bugs from the apartment will disappear. If he is really worried, it means that there are a lot of them in the housing, and therefore, some of them live not on the couch, but near him - behind the baseboards, behind the furniture, under linoleum and parquet.

By the way, it happens that there are no suspicions of bedbugs in people, no one bites them, but some insects are found in the sofa.

Most often these are beetles - grinders and barbel (their larvae gnaw passages in wooden furniture elements), leather-eaters (their larvae can spoil fabric and upholstery from other materials).

Less often in sofas you can see cockroaches or fleas, less often - hay eaters or fleas. They also need to be poisoned, although the methods for their destruction can be somewhat different, not the same as when exterminating bugs.

Where do the bugs appear on the couch?

There are two ways for bugs to appear on the couch, both quite prosaic and commonplace:

• Bedbugs get into the room from the neighbors, find sleeping people, bite, and then hide in the couch. Gradually they settle here and multiply;
• Bedbugs are accidentally carried by people - in bags and suitcases after business trips and trips, with used household appliances and furniture (including those with already infected sofas). Bed bugs here first live in the first shelters they come across, but gradually move closer to people and settle in the sofa.

At first, when there are few bugs in the couch, people do not pay attention to their bites, taking them for mosquitoes, and even for allergies.

When the bites become strong, people begin to look for parasites, and by this time they are already breeding in very large numbers.

Very often, the owners of such infected sofas even think that their housing was specially infected: greedy disinfectors threw bugs under the door, furniture sellers in the store entered a share with the sanitary services and even in the store populate hordes of parasites in the sofas, a harmful neighbor or mother-in-law brought bugs in a bag - and so on.

Of course, all these versions are just as ridiculous as ridiculous, but it is quite possible to understand people who can’t believe that such a bug horde appeared in the room itself.

How to destroy bedbugs on a sofa

At a minimum, you need to find all the places in the room where parasites can hide. Sometimes for this you have to make a complete revolution in the apartment, but if you don’t do this, some nests may not be found, then during processing they will be missed and the bugs will survive here.

Therefore, the sofa is only the beginning. Often people start with it, find bugs here, then check the entire apartment and find that even more parasites are hiding under carpets and parquet, behind cabinets, behind wallpaper, behind baseboards - the situation in each apartment can be individual.

However, it may be such that the bugs settled only in the sofa, but before processing, you need to make sure of this by carefully checking all the other possible places of their shelters.

But then you looked at the sofa and made sure that it is infected. It needs to be treated with a tool that quickly and reliably destroys bugs. These can be various insecticidal preparations, from relatively inexpensive (for example, Karbofos) to quite expensive ones.

In some apartments, bedbugs may have immunity to commonly used drugs; in others, they can be easily poisoned with cheap products from the market. Therefore, in many cases, the first treatment is a kind of check.

For sofas we use imported products with a complex composition and relatively new insecticides as active substances. Bedbugs do not have resistance to such drugs, and with proper treatment, all parasites die.

However, these funds are quite expensive, they are not sold in the markets, and it is beneficial to poison bugs with them when it is possible to buy them at wholesale prices. It is irrational to use them independently at home.

With this tool, all the details of the sofa, all the filler of the soft parts, all the upholstery are carefully processed. Those places where the nests are sprayed with double amounts of the product.

Of course, it is advisable to spray all the structures of the sofa under high pressure so that the product penetrates to a greater depth of the soft parts, under the upholstery, under the seams and in the joints.

However, this effect can only be obtained using professional equipment - special foggers that create the so-called cold fog, which, due to the high cost, use only professional disinfectors.

In addition to them, it is sometimes advisable to use hot fog, in which a tool, like smoke, is drawn even to those places of shelters of bugs that could not be found and which cannot be reached (for example, in cracks in the walls). With a simple spray gun, it is impossible to process the details of the sofa so carefully.

If bedbugs were found in other places in the apartment, you need to process all these places as carefully as the design of the sofa. When processing windows, doors and ventilation in the apartment must be closed.

The material will be impregnated with the product, but it will not be on the surface of the drug, and it will be completely safe to sleep on such a sofa. Moreover, if you cover it with a sheet, the sleeping person will not come into contact with the product.

But if several bugs survive in or near the couch, then in attempts to get to the person after treatment, they will move along the treated surfaces and etch.

It is believed that bugs in the couch can be destroyed if you take it out in the cold and keep it on the street for 2-3 days. This is true, but in reality these measures do not help get rid of bugs.

It's just that in most apartments, bedbugs hide in the sofa and in other places. Even if all the parasites in the sofa die, those behind the skirting boards or under the floors will survive and populate the sofa after it returns. And it is more difficult and dangerous to freeze the entire apartment - pipes with water may unfreeze.

For the same reason, you cannot be sure that if you throw out the sofa, then the bugs will disappear. If they live only in a sofa, it will be so.

If they are hiding somewhere else nearby, then after removing the sofa nothing will change. Maybe for several weeks the intensity of the bites will decrease, because the bugs will become smaller, but then the bugs remaining in other places in the room will multiply and everything will return to normal.

Sometimes it turns out to completely remove the bugs if you steam the sofa with a household steam generator. In this case, the seams of soft elements, their joints, the gaps between the boards, any cavity in which bugs can be found are treated with a stream of steam.

In general, it makes no sense to try to somehow drive or scare the bugs out of the sofa. Sometimes this is how they try to fight them, lay out herbs, pour vinegar or alcohol.

The parasites will not leave the apartment anyway, they will not stop biting a person, only the intensity of their bites can slightly decrease for a while. In general, you need to rely on the fact that either you destroy the bugs, or they bite you. It’s not possible to scare them away, drive them away, and repel them with conspiracies or essential oils.

Further, in some cases, repeated processing is required. Sometimes bugs have resistance to the means by which they are poisoned.

And if you do it yourself, you’ll almost certainly have to process both the sofa and the apartment again. You need to be prepared for this, after treatment you need to look to see if there are bites after sleep, sometimes to inspect the sofa and other places in the room.

If bites, or bedbugs, or both, are found, it is advisable to carry out the treatment 2-3 weeks after the first.

In this case, it will be possible to etch the maximum number of nymphs that have not yet had time to turn into adult insects and, therefore, have not yet laid eggs. As a rule, with proper treatment, the bugs disappear 1-2 days after disinfestation.

Of course, if we poison bugs, we will most likely not have to do the reprocessing. The need for it arises if the apartment is too badly infected, or neighboring rooms are infected.

It is advisable to do this even before processing, in order to exclude any chance for parasites to penetrate into the room immediately after it. Only in this case can bedbugs be bred forever.

If this is not done, then even after the most effective bullying, new bugs will sooner or later climb into the apartment and begin to breed here, and the whole saga will have to be repeated first.

Why can bed bugs start up on the couch?

The newly arisen problem - bed bugs on the couch was an unpleasant surprise for all people who sincerely considered bloodsucking parasites to be found only in old furniture in untidy houses, and could not appear in a safe house.

Where bugs in the sofa, purchased recently, come from, people who carefully monitor the cleanliness of the house, became an unpleasant mystery.

Bed bug, appearance and nutrition

The appearance of bedbugs on the couch becomes an extremely negative discovery among people who have discovered strange, itchy bite marks on their bodies, waking up in the morning from unpleasant and unfamiliar sensations. Usually, those who do not expect such an invasion do not even know what the sofa bugs look like, and have never encountered them.

A bedbug, domestic bug - an ectoparasite of a person who has the habit of settling closer to the places where their main owners sleep - a small insect about half a centimeter in length.

Feeding on human blood, settle:

1. in a new sofa;
2. willingly live in the old, which has already become familiar habitat;
3. placed in the slots with which sofas abound, especially old, whimsical designs;
4. both the back and the abdomen, ticks like to feel support, and therefore clog in the gap.

If bugs are started in the couch, parasites are not immediately detected, but after some time, when the population multiplies, and red-brown insects become an object of amazement.

The time of bed bug activity is closer to 5 in the morning, when a person’s sleep is especially strong, and those who do not have hypersensitive skin may not notice bites until the number of insects increases so much that the person wakes up from them.

In this case, a logical question arises of what bugs are getting on the couch, and is it possible to get rid of them so as not to wake up in the morning from attacks of bloodsucking aggressors. The appearance of sofa bed bugs in the apartment is not related to their furniture preferences.

The bug appears in the place where its main source of food sleeps, keeping it warm and replete with cozy corners, from which it is not necessary to get to the main food for a particularly long time.

Likely routes of entry

Tidy owners, especially those who use new furniture, have legal perplexity and misunderstanding of where the parasite population came from.

Bedbugs just settle nearby, feed, breed and crap, leaving characteristic traces, and when the owner looks inside the sofa, there is an impression of the presence of dust in the pallet and between the cracks.

There are few reasons for the appearance of bugs, and they do not differ in variety. Usually, the main reason for which bugs appear is, as in any infection with ectoparasites, external infection:

• the insect enters the apartment on clothes, or in the bag of the inhabitants of the apartment;
• it is brought on wool of the house inhabitant running freely on the street;
• arrives with guests, where at home there is a similar misfortune;
• gets on a new sofa in the store, if they put on it a bag in which parasites are present;
• in rare cases, bugs that appear may crawl through the balcony, and sometimes through ventilation from neighbors.

There are few reasons why bugs can appear, but it is usually almost impossible to find out a reliable source. Few people voluntarily acknowledge the presence of parasites in the couch, and even more so if such individuals have become a likely source of infection for other people.

But to clarify this issue is unpleasant, because it is an indirect recognition of the existing problem. Therefore, most often, the owners begin to look for ways to get rid of bed bugs on the couch on their own.

Ways of deliverance, long and few

Finding how to handle the furniture and avoid spoiling it, and what to do to sleep peacefully and not walk with traces of combed bites, leads to a simple conclusion: there are few ways to get bedbugs out of the sofa yourself.

The most reliable, and giving a full guarantee of the result, is to call the pest control house. First, you will have to relocate the household for a while, and for a short time refuse to use furniture, carefully ventilating the room, avoiding poisoning.

If the sofa is improperly processed by choosing the wrong tool, as well as when applying an insufficient dosage, the treatment will not only have to be repeated, but also a means of looking for a new one, since parasites can develop resistance to already tested poison.

Someone suggests getting rid of the sofa inhabitants by scalding them with boiling water, which is inconvenient, and requires long-term drying of the furniture.

Finally

Bed bugs can deliver not only discomfort, but also cause allergic lesions, intoxication, general malaise if their bites are multiple. In no case should preventive measures be used, allowing them to spread around the apartment.

After all, insects can live not only in furniture, but also in clothing, laying eggs on it, and multiply at an incredible speed. Only radical deliverance is needed.