Street bugs in the apartment. Bedbugs on the street - precautions

What do garden bugs look like?

Almost all bugs living in the garden belong to the stink bug family. This name is explained by the fact that when viewed from above, their body looks like a shield and has a flattened shape. At the same time, the type of garden bugs is diverse. They can be of different sizes - from 0.3 mm to 18 mm. They come in different colors - brown, green, red, etc. There are very bright types, with signal, warning colors. They may have stripes and other patterns on their shell.

The most common types of bugs found in gardens are:

• The green stink bug is the most common pest bug; it has a bright green color and is quite large in size - up to 1.5 cm; feeds on the juice of cultivated plants, prefers raspberry and currant leaves, can also infect herbaceous plants;
• Berry stink bug - this insect has a bright red-brown color, which is due to the fact that this pest sucks juices not only from the leaves of berry bushes, but also from berries; also known as the stink bug because when crushed it emits a pungent and unpleasant odor;
• Cruciferous bug - northern eurydema, a bug that causes great damage to garden plants - cabbage, lettuce, radish, radish; has a bright black and red color;
• The cucumber bug is a pest that destroys the leaves of cucumbers, as well as eggplants, tomatoes, and peppers; It is small in size and brown-green in color;
• The bug is a harmful turtle - outwardly the insect's shell is similar to the shell of a turtle, which explains the name, and the harmfulness lies in the fact that this garden pest destroys cereal crops, and if they are not nearby, it can suck the juices from garden plants; has developed wings, so it can fly long distances;
• Pear laceweed is a very small insect pest that feeds on the sap of fruit plants - apple trees, pears, quince, plums, etc.; This is a brown bug with an openwork pattern on its shell;
• The horse fly bug is a very small gray insect, some subspecies look like ants.

Bugs on the balcony in summer: reasons for their appearance

Black bugs can appear on the balcony for several reasons. This is due to abnormal heat, as well as fires or floods in their natural habitat. They hide from these phenomena in the upholstery of the loggia.

Other options for their appearance are listed below:

1. If the weather conditions were favorable outside, then small black or large brown beetles fly to the balcony at night and begin to multiply exponentially. Due to the good climate, insect colonies no longer have enough space to live. The beetles begin to look for a new home in order to survive.
2. Most of these insects live on balconies only in the summer. Their food is the juice secreted by plants. Therefore, if there are a lot of bushes or trees near a multi-story building, then such guests may appear on the loggia immediately. The reason for the creation of colonies of some black beetles may lie in the smell of houseplants located on the balcony.

If these are not blood-sucking bugs, but just midges on flowers, then they do not pose any danger to humans. Such small insects can only harm plants. As soon as it starts to get colder, they will disappear from the balcony.

Beneficial predator bugs

A number of insects from the order of bugs, on the contrary, are useful in the household. They are even bred specifically to minimize the use of chemicals to protect the crop.

How bedbugs can be useful:

• macrolophus - one of the subspecies of the horse fly bug - eats eggs, larvae and adults of aphids, whiteflies, thrips, spider mites;
• perillus - destroys its natural enemies - Colorado potato beetles, as well as leaf beetles and butterflies;
• Podisus is another predatory bug that destroys caterpillars, butterflies and leaf beetles;
• picromerus is a predatory bug that preys on butterflies, sawflies, Colorado potato beetles, cutworms and other crop pests;
• Soldier bug - feeds on the remains of insects and plants, thereby cleaning the area, and is a sanitarian.

The use of predatory bugs, which are specially bred in biofactories and research institutes, allows us to minimize the use of insecticides and obtain a healthier harvest.

Where do they come from

Causes of bedbugs
Bedbugs can appear in an apartment in several ways. Among them are:

1. Public institutions where sanitation suffers. Such residents like to live in hostels and inexpensive hotels. After which, along with things and luggage, they easily enter the home.
2. Nomadism. House bugs easily migrate from one apartment to another. They make their way through small cracks and sockets.
3. Buying an apartment with unpleasant inhabitants. As long as the room is empty and the bloodsuckers have nothing to profit from, they hibernate, choosing the most inaccessible and unsightly areas. But as soon as they smell food, they wake up and begin to actively reproduce.

When purchasing used furniture, you should always check it for bloodsuckers. After all, this is how parasites are most often introduced into an apartment.

What harm do garden bugs cause?

Garden bugs need plants to feed on. They suck out their juice by making punctures in the leaves, stems, fruits and seeds. After such a puncture, holes remain in the plants, the tissues around them die, and then the entire plant dies. Bedbugs are especially dangerous during the period of plant growth and fruit formation. If the bugs suck the juices from the inflorescences, then there will simply be no fruit. If they feed on the juice of fruits and berries, the latter become unsuitable for food. Bedbugs infect all plants in the garden or vegetable garden - fruits and berries, cereals, cruciferous plants, umbelliferous plants, herbaceous plants, and ornamental plants. The speed of destruction can be very fast. For example, a horse fly bug eats a plant in a matter of hours, so the gardener may not have time to take measures to get rid of pests and protect the crop.

Using a vacuum cleaner

This device will help to collect bedbugs and their eggs in such a way as to reliably hold the beetles for a while. Having discovered places where parasites accumulate, the summer resident should act quickly before the insects scatter. For narrow crevices and other hard-to-reach spaces, we recommend using the narrow book cleaning attachment. At the end of the procedure, under no circumstances should you open the vacuum cleaner bag. It must be quickly removed from the device, placed in a plastic garbage bag, tied tightly, and taken far away from the site.

It is difficult to clean a disposable vacuum cleaner bag from insects without getting some of them onto a person’s clothes. If possible, it is recommended to burn or drown it.

Bedbugs in a country house are a real disaster for the owners. The presence of unwanted neighbors will make it impossible to fully relax in nature. Therefore, it is worth paying attention to prevention in order to exclude their occurrence, and, if necessary, conduct full-fledged “military maneuvers” to completely destroy the invaders.

How to get rid of garden bugs

First of all, they need to be detected. If there are suspicions that an area is infested with bedbugs, it is necessary to carry out a visual inspection, paying attention to the back of the leaves on trees and shrubs. In the greenhouse, you also need to carefully examine the back side of the leaves. Clutches of eggs can be located on the leaves, as well as at their junction with the stem.

Traditional methods

Do not neglect traditional methods of controlling garden pests. It can be:

• planting a black cohosh plant - its smell is unpleasant for bedbugs;
• spraying with infusion of onion peels - prepare it at the rate of 250 g of peels per 10 liters of water, leave for 5 days, after which the plants are sprayed once every four days;
• treatment with a solution of laundry soap (300 grams per 10 liters) once a week; You can also dilute wood ash in water along with soap;
• treating plants with a solution of dry mustard every three days.

Traditional methods of fighting bedbugs work, but their disadvantage is their short duration of action. Re-processing of the vegetable garden or garden should be carried out every 3 to 7 days. In this case, each plant needs to be treated, and each leaf must be treated on both sides, since bedbugs can move quite quickly and temporarily wander into weeds or mown grass.

Prevention methods include scattering tobacco dust, dry mustard or hot pepper over the area in the spring, before planting. They will repel or destroy pests, their larvae and eggs in the soil.

Biological method

That is, the use of other insect predators against insect pests. But it is almost impossible to implement this technique on your own, since you need to know exactly what type of bedbugs is to be destroyed and what natural enemies this species has.

Agrotechnical method

To prevent bedbugs from infecting your dacha or garden plot, the following measures must be taken:

• compliance with planting deadlines;
• timely application of fertilizers and loosening of the soil;
• weeding beds;
• clearing the area of ​​fallen leaves, removing grass after mowing;
• maintaining cleanliness in the area.

Timely planting and maintaining the soil in an optimal condition for growing plants makes them more resistant to damage by bugs and other pests. In fallen leaves and mown grass, bedbugs can overwinter or lay eggs. They move from weeds to cultivated plants.

Chemical control method

The most effective way to get rid of garden bugs is to use chemical insecticides. Products containing organophosphorus and pyrethroid substances are suitable. You can use complex preparations to independently destroy garden pests. You can spray the drug "Medilis-Ziper" to destroy bedbugs, mosquitoes, ticks and other pests.

Chemical insecticides act in different ways:

• systemic - penetrate into plants, the insect dies after sucking the juice of such a plant;
• contact - when treating the area, the product gets on the pest, causing it to die;
• intestinal - the bug eats a microdose of poison and dies.

The issue of treating a garden plot with pesticides should only be raised if there is a large infestation of bedbugs. It is necessary to weigh the pros and cons of such treatment, since its results can harm not only the bugs, but also the crop. The use of chemicals is always an emergency measure when other methods of control do not work.

Toxic substances

If using home remedies doesn't work, you can try insecticides, which are chemicals that kill insects. They can be purchased at household chemical stores. On average, the spraying agent is packaged in containers with a volume of 50-100 ml. For a small country house, two or three cylinders of poison are enough.

During the procedure, it is important for a person to protect himself from the effects of toxic substances on the skin, eyes and lungs. He must wear a respirator, rubber gloves, high tight shoes, long sleeves, a hat and glasses. All other people must leave the premises at this time. After finishing processing of all rooms, the windows and doors of the house are closed. The cottage is left in a sealed state for the time specified in the annotation for the insecticide. Then you need to wash your protective clothing well in hot water, wash your shoes and glasses, and the exterminator needs to take a shower.

Popular drugs for controlling bed bugs:

• "Executioner";
• "Insecticide";
• "Bedbug Stop";
• "Death to pests";
• "Butox";
• "Fufanon";
• "Combat";
• "Karbofos";
• "Medilis Cyper";
• "Delta Zone".

11. Why do bedbugs not bite all family members?

Here is an example of wording a question: why do they bite my child and me, but not my husband, even though we all sleep in the same room? In search of food, bedbugs selectively choose their victims. First of all, bedbugs prefer children and women, since delicate, thin and smooth skin is easier to bite through the proboscis, which needs to get to the blood capillary. Also, the deeper the blood vessels lie, the more difficult it is for the bug to sense the source of fresh blood and determine where on the skin a puncture needs to be made. When the population level is high, everyone gets bitten! Even if at first someone remains without bites, this does not last long. Domestic bugs quickly adapt to their environment.

16. What to do if your neighbors have bedbugs? Neighbors are poisoning bedbugs.

If your neighbors are poisoning bed bugs in their apartment, but you don’t have any parasites yet, you need to take immediate action. It is necessary to treat your premises with professional microencapsulated products for self-treatment. By doing this, you will create a barrier against bedbugs that can crawl into your territory through leaks in the walls and ventilation shafts. You can order joint disinfestation from the sanitary service. Such treatment must be carried out simultaneously with the neighbors, so that the bedbugs do not have time to migrate to the non-poisoned area. Recommended professional products for self-sanitation: Delta Zone, Lambda Zone, Get (Get), Executioner, Xulat C25. Attention! If you don’t put up a barrier, then bedbugs will crawl from your neighbors, quickly multiply, and you will still have to poison them.