Aerosol against bed bugs: how to use, which one is more effective?

Bedbug repellents are most often available in the form of:

• Aerosols
• Spreev
• Concentrates
• Poroshkov

Aerosols and sprays are the most convenient means, as they are completely ready for use. More suitable for disinsection of individual objects and surfaces. You can treat the entire apartment with them, but most likely you will have to buy several bottles of insecticide.

Concentrates in various forms are quite effective, but require preliminary preparation of solutions with calculation of proportions and the presence of special equipment for spraying. Most of the products in this category are professional, so they should be used with extreme caution in everyday life.

Powdered insecticides must literally be scattered in areas where bedbugs accumulate, which can be dangerous if you have pets and children. A compromise option can be considered natural powder products that do not contain chemicals.

Helpful advice.

When choosing a remedy for bedbugs, start with safer and simpler options - sprays and aerosols, and only if they do not help, switch to concentrates. Working with drugs for dilution in water is always a risk that you should not expose yourself to unless absolutely necessary.

Dr. Klaus for fleas and bedbugs

• Made in Russia
• Ready-to-use aerosol with a volume of 250 milliliters
• The main active ingredients are cypermethrin 0.25% and tetramethrin 0.15%
• Price ≈ 200 rubles

One cylinder is enough to treat a room of about 15 square meters. According to the manufacturer, it is odorless. Used for local treatment of mattresses, bed frames and other places where bedbugs live in apartments
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Has a prolonged effect up to 45 days after treatment.

Hector

Hector today can be considered an ideal means for self-extermination of bedbugs at home. It is effective, kills all bedbugs that come into contact with it, and is absolutely safe for people and pets.

Its only peculiarity is that it kills bedbugs within a few days, since in order for it to work, the insects need to run over it. But considering that it does not lose its properties for months if it is not washed off or wet, this feature cannot even be considered a disadvantage - you just need to be prepared that the bedbugs will not disappear in 2-3 hours, as with products with a pungent effect and a strong odor , and after 2-3 days.

Experiments show that Hector kills bedbugs within 2.5 hours from the moment the insects first come into contact with the product, even if during this time they only periodically come into contact with the powder.

The main advantages of Hector are the absence of odor and non-toxicity for humans, both for adults and children. It is also safe for pets. It's true: the active ingredient in it is silicon dioxide, which is used in medicine as an inert component of tablets. Even if it is swallowed, poisoning will not occur because silica is not toxic. There are no known cases of any allergies arising from its use.

However, in general it kills bedbugs quite effectively. Exterminators often work in apartments where people have previously tried to remove bedbugs with Hector, and find here a large number of dried and dead bedbugs.

Therefore, by the way, many exterminators themselves use Hector as an auxiliary product: after the main treatment with a professional preparation, they pour powder in those places where bedbugs can move, migrating from neighbors. Or they recommend that customers sprinkle the product there themselves - this is considered one of the ways to prevent the appearance of new bedbugs in the apartment.

But, as a rule, people are afraid to sprinkle Hector in sufficient quantities on their sleeping places, they do not renew the product, and new parasites are often acquired from their neighbors. And while these aliens die, they manage to bite people. In such cases, people complain that the drug does not work. Although in reality the issue is not the drug, but its incorrect use.

That is, Hector has the same problem as the Executioner: he kills bedbugs, but few use it correctly. Most buyers use it once or twice, are unable to remove the bedbugs, and end up calling the service anyway.

Medilis Anticlops

• Made in Russia
• Completely ready-to-use spray with a volume of 250 milliliters
• Active ingredients – imidacloprid 0.2% + cypermethrin 0.25%
• Price ≈ 500–600 rubles

Suitable for local treatment, has a prolonged effect of up to 3 weeks on non-absorbent surfaces, up to 7 days on absorbent surfaces. According to the manufacturer, it has a moderate odor and is effective on eggs. The product was developed specifically for bedbugs that have already developed resistance (immunity) to other drugs.

Features of the drug, principle of action

Remember to use protective equipment to protect yourself. Namely:

1. Use glasses that fit tightly to prevent the drug from getting into your eyes.
2. Use a long robe or overalls and rubber gloves
3. Buy a respirator or at least a gauze bandage. If you have to process large areas, you must use a gas mask.

Furniture and other objects should be moved away from the wall before spraying the drug begins, all soft parts should be removed, and the mattress should be turned over. It will be necessary to treat the back walls, joints, corners, and all places where parasites accumulate.

Before use, shake the can and spray. In this case, you need to cover every surface, paying a lot of attention to usually closed areas. There is no need to spray the aerosol into the air - then you will have to wait a long time for it to dissipate. Apply it specifically to surfaces.

It is worth noting the fact that the product only kills an adult when the egg laying remains intact. Because of this, over time, insects can form again, so destruction will need to be carried out again for prevention.

The chemicals work effectively by first paralyzing the bug and then destroying it. The drug has shown itself well for many years, establishing itself as an affordable and economical remedy.

You began to notice that after baiting with Clean House chemicals, new bedbugs began to appear, which means that you did not meet the following requirements:

• the premises were not properly cleaned;
• the drug was used incorrectly;
• re-treatment was not carried out (in case of mass accumulation of individuals).

Note! Getting rid of bedbugs in an apartment building alone is difficult. Disinfection must be simultaneous and carried out by all apartment residents

This will limit the movement of bedbugs from one area to another.

For many consumers, an aerosol product is the most preferable. The drug contains 2 active substances:

• cypermethrin (0.18%);
• tetramethrin (0.2%).

Both are poison for cockroaches. But, acting simultaneously, they enhance the effect and reduce addiction to the drug. In addition to active substances, the product contains: catalyst, solvent, synergist, propane-butane. When sprayed, Clean House blocks the functioning of the nervous system, causing paralysis in cockroaches, leading to death.

Clean House preparations can be purchased in different release forms, each with its own characteristics and features. Thanks to the active substances that make up the dust, the substance acts on the insect through the chitinous shell. Upon contact, the powder remains on the cockroach’s body and affects the nervous system, causing paralysis and then death. In addition, the cockroach carries the poison on itself to the nests, where it comes into contact with other individuals and infects them.

The advantage of the dust is its prolonged action. After the treatment is carried out, the product will be active on surfaces for a long time. Its activity is not affected by external factors such as temperature and light. To neutralize the toxic chemical, you need to remove the surface and wash it with soapy water.

Simple and easy-to-use traps act through the digestive tract. This is a design that contains an insecticide with various additives. Cockroaches are attracted by the smell of the additives, they enter the trap through the hole and eat the poison with appetite. The active substance retains its effect for 2 months and is not afraid of sunlight and temperatures.

Clean house

• Country of origin: Russia
• Ready-to-use spray with a volume of 400 milliliters
• Main active ingredients – alphacypermethrin 0.10% + tetramethrin 0.10%
• Price ≈ 250 rubles

Has a chamomile scent. Suitable for local treatment of furniture, objects and surfaces. One bottle is enough to treat an area of ​​up to 50 square meters.

How the gel kills bedbugs

Bedbug gel is a substance with a jelly-like consistency, packaged in a bottle with a long tip.
The drug contains an active chemical substance that has a contact-intestinal effect. Once in the insect's body, it blocks the transmission of nerve impulses, which causes paralysis and subsequent death of the bedbug. The death of the bloodsucker does not occur immediately. He manages to carry the poison into the nest on his paws and infect several more individuals. In addition to the active substance, the composition is represented by auxiliary additives that prevent the drug from drying out and the preservation of its structure. The gel is effective for 3-4 weeks.

If the apartment is not heavily infested, the population decreases 3-4 days after application; this fact is confirmed by reviews of bedbug gels. Total destruction of parasites is observed 10-15 days after application, since the product has no effect on bedbug eggs and it takes some time for larvae to emerge from the embryos.

Gel application

On a note!

Most manufacturers add bittering ingredients. If a curious child or pet decides to taste the product, he simply will not be able to eat it because of the characteristic bitter taste.

K-Otrin VG 250

• Country of origin: Austria
• Beige water-soluble granules in individual bags, packaged 2.5 grams, 16 pieces per box
• The main active ingredient is deltamethrin 25%
• Price of 1 sachet 2.5 grams ≈ 200–300 rubles

The prepared solution is applied with a brush to the surface or sprayed through a sprayer. Insects begin to die 15 minutes after contact with the drug, the prolonged effect lasts up to 3 months, the product leaves no traces. One 2.5 gram sachet is enough to treat a room of up to 70 square meters.

Why can’t people get rid of bedbugs even with good means?

Among professional exterminators, this unwritten truth is known: the most effective remedy for bedbugs is the one used by a specialist. This is not an aphorism or an advertisement. It is a fact. A person can use the same means to poison bedbugs once, then a second time, then a third time, and the parasites will not come out. The exterminator will use the same product to properly treat the room, and there will be no more bedbugs here.

In order to remove bedbugs with any, even the most effective, means, you need to be able to use this means. If you don’t know how to do this, even the most powerful drug will not guarantee that bedbugs will disappear from your apartment.

The drugs listed above are not fundamentally different from the professional products that exterminators use. Yes, professional insecticides have higher concentrations and may include other auxiliary components, but they work against bedbugs in almost the same way. They are simply more profitable to purchase in bulk and insect resistance to them is less likely.

Partly because of the desire to maintain this effectiveness of the products, we do not say what specific drugs we use. Because we know that there are no bed bugs that are resistant to these products. This is our professional secret. If tomorrow all services (including various hacks) begin to flood apartments with these products, then in six months these products will begin to have annoying misfires due to the resistance of insects, and we will have to look for new drugs.

But this is relevant for us, for pest control service specialists. We carry out 10-15 treatments every day, which is hundreds of treatments per month. And we need to have means with which we can confidently poison bedbugs everywhere.

In your case, the likelihood that bedbugs in your apartment will be resistant to a particular drug is negligible. Most likely, any product with a powerful insecticide can kill your bedbugs. If you take a product based on two insecticides, it will definitely kill your bedbugs. Therefore, you don’t need to rack your brains, search for and order some expensive professional products. You just need to correctly apply what is intended for self-processing in the apartment.

But with this - with the correct use of the product - most people have problems. Actually, all cases when a person buys Cyclops, or Karbofos, or Executioner, poisons bedbugs with them, the bedbugs seem to disappear, but then appear again - these are precisely those situations when the product is used incorrectly. And in this case, it doesn’t matter what kind of product it is - household or professional, strong or weak, with or without a smell. If you use it incorrectly, it will not remove bedbugs.

Actually, this is what we see in our calls. People tell us that they poisoned bedbugs with one drug or another, or they had services before us that poisoned bedbugs with a certain drug. And almost always these remedies are quite effective. We know them, we tested them, they can remove bedbugs. And if you can’t do this, then it’s not a matter of means. The point is how to use this tool.

That is why the drug used by a professional exterminator will be more effective than even the most powerful remedy that a person uses to kill bedbugs for the first time in his life. This is why people take good products, but cannot get rid of bedbugs with them, and sooner or later they still call us.

Our practice shows that compliance with processing rules is a more important factor than a powerful tool. An experienced exterminator will remove bedbugs even with a spray can – Raid or Raptor. Of course, he will spend more time on this than when working with a cold fog generator and with a professional preparation. He may even have to carry out two treatments with such products in a can. But after these two treatments, there will be no bedbugs left in the room.

If an inexperienced person takes even the most powerful professional drug, he will most likely not be able to remove bedbugs with this drug.

Therefore, we can conclude: to remove bedbugs, a product based on any effective insecticide, or even better, two insecticides of different classes, is sufficient. It doesn’t matter what this product is called - if processed correctly, it can kill bedbugs.

GET Express

• Country of manufacture – Russia
• Microencapsulated suspension in a 50 ml bottle
• The main active ingredient of the concentrate is lambda-cyhalothrin 1.1%
• Bottle price ≈ 600 rubles

According to information from the manufacturer, it leaves no residue and has a neutral odor. Insects begin to die 2 hours after spraying the drug; the prolonged effect lasts for 1–2 months. A 50-ml bottle is enough to treat a room of up to 40 square meters.

PARAGRAPH

Insectoacaricidal agent.

Concentrate for the destruction of: cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, fleas, adult flies and larvae, adult mosquitoes and larvae, rat mites. Concentration, AI, [Class], Form: 5%, Lambda-cyhalothrin, [Pyrethroid], aqueous emulsion concentrate.

Consumption rates:

• against cockroaches, fly larvae, wasps, use a working suspension prepared by adding 5 ml of the drug per 1 liter of water

Advantages: Effective on all types of insects, especially effective against bedbugs (larvae). It does not repel insects from treated surfaces, but rather destroys them. Residual effect 5 - 8 weeks after application, regardless of surface type. It is a good alternative to products to which insects have shown resistance. The low consumption rate guarantees attractive treatment costs. Does not damage, spoil or leave stains on treated surfaces.

• from bedbugs, ants, fleas, adult flies, rat ticks - 2.5 ml per 1 liter of water
• against adult mosquitoes - 1.25 ml per 1 liter of water, the consumption rate of the drug is from 50 to 100 ml per 1 sq.m.
• from mosquito larvae 1 ml per 10 liters of water. Consumption rate - 25-50 ml per 1 sq. m of reservoir.

August Bedbug beetle

• Country of origin: Russia
• Insecticidal liquid for dilution in water in a 100 ml bottle
• Active ingredient – ​​imidacloprid 18.2%
• Bottle price ≈ 250 rubles

According to the manufacturer's information, it does not have a strong odor and has a prolonged effect of up to 1 month. Insects begin to die the next day after treatment. A solution of 100 milliliters (the entire bottle) and 2 liters of water is applied with a brush or roller where bedbugs were found.

Disinsection without odor.

Unscented remedy for bedbugs It is a mistake to think that insects are destroyed by the smell of disinfestation. This opinion is only true for karbofos. The active ingredients of modern drugs themselves have a very faint odor. Where does the smell come from? It's all about the auxiliary ingredients - solvents, emulsifiers, stabilizers. Only chlorophos dissolves in water. Other drugs are soluble only in organic solvents or oils. It looks like water-based paint. The solvent will dry, there will be no odor, and the product will last 4-6 weeks or more. Thus, the task of the solvent is:

1. Dissolve the active substance;
2. Attach it to the surface;
3. Cause insects to panic and force them to crawl out of the cracks;

Agran

• Made in India
• Water-based emulsion in 50 ml bottles
• The main active ingredients are chlorpyrifos 50% and cypermethrin 5%
• Bottle price ≈ 150–200 rubles

Agran belongs to the category of professional products, therefore, before using it, you must carefully study all the instructions for use. The product destroys most insects within the first 2 days after treatment and retains a residual effect for up to 1 month.

The chemical method is the most effective way to combat bedbugs

The use of insecticidal agents of various classes of chemical compounds in the order of their alternation (to avoid addiction) is the basis of the method. Effective control of bedbugs in 90% of cases cannot do without chemicals. And this is a whole arsenal of means to combat bedbugs, including professional and household means of various preparative forms, from “Mashenka” to powders and emulsions. This method also includes the use of various types of repellents and attractants in order to repel/attract bedbugs.

The best repellents include vinegar, tansy, turpentine with denatured alcohol. There are often cases when repellents attract bedbugs, stimulating their activity. It should be noted that most of the repelling and attracting agents are ineffective, some work occasionally. A hungry bug can only be stopped by death, and attracted only by the carbon dioxide released during breathing and the unique smell of a person, which no one has yet succeeded in breaking down into components and synthesizing.

At the moment, the most effective way to combat bedbugs is exterminatory disinfestation using acute contact preparations that destroy bedbugs and their larvae moving on treated surfaces.

At the same time, it becomes obvious that there is more than one effective way to fight bedbugs. So what is an effective way to combat bedbugs?

The difference between the gel and other chemicals

Easier-to-use drugs are very popular. Liquid chemicals against bedbugs have many advantages and this attracts buyers. The main advantage of this product is safety for human health. Other chemicals are harmful to the human body and require special precautions.

Children, elderly people, pregnant and lactating women are at increased risk. They can visit the treated premises only after the rooms have been thoroughly cleaned and ventilated. Due to its gel consistency, the drug does not need to be sprayed, distributing chemicals through the air. The poisonous product is available in convenient tubes or syringes, and is carefully applied to the habitats of bloodsuckers.

Another advantage of the gel is the effectiveness of the chemical components. The emulsion has a sweetish odor, which attracts pests, and, when it gets on the legs of an insect, it spreads over a large area. The drugs remain for a long time at the application sites. The residual effect of the toxic agent remains for 2-3 months. To more quickly eliminate insects, gels can be used in combination with other insecticides.